{"id":104376,"date":"2026-07-16T22:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T22:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/104376\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T22:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T22:02:08","slug":"switzerland-defender-aurele-amenda-joins-coventry-for-clubs-premier-league-return-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/104376\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland defender Aur\u00e8le Amenda joins Coventry for club&#8217;s Premier League return | National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COVENTRY, England (AP) \u2014 Switzerland defender Aur\u00e8le Amenda came home from the <a href=\"https:\/\/See%20more%20of%20AP%E2%80%99s%20World%20Cup%20coverage%20here\" rel=\"nofollow\">World Cup<\/a> to sign for newly promoted Premier League club Coventry on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccfc.co.uk\/news\/2026\/july\/16\/coventry-city-sign-aur-le-amenda-from-eintracht-frankfurt\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coventry said<\/a> the 22-year-old Amenda signed a four-year contract without stating the transfer fee paid to Eintracht Frankfurt, which was reportedly 18 million euros ($20.6 million).<\/p>\n<p>Amenda has played seven times for Switzerland though did not get called from the bench during the team&#8217;s impressive run to the World Cup quarterfinals. Switzerland <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/argentina-switzerland-red-card-embolo-e110fd06b69d06d2aa75a68b9876627e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lost to Argentina 3-1<\/a> after extra time.<\/p>\n<p>Amenda helped Young Boys win Swiss league titles in 2023 and &#8217;24 before moving to Frankfurt, where he played in five Champions League games last season.<\/p>\n<p>Coventry won the second-tier English Championship last season <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/coventry-lampard-premier-league-976dde9854b954fd5cbc59d44e9ac300\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">coached by former Chelsea great Frank Lampard<\/a> and will play in the Premier League for the first time since 2001.<\/p>\n<p>AP soccer: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get any of our free email newsletters \u2014 news headlines, obituaries, sports, and more.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beloitdailynews.com\/newsletters\/\" class=\"btn btn-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Explore newsletters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COVENTRY, England (AP) \u2014 Switzerland defender Aur\u00e8le Amenda came home from the World Cup to sign for newly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[2019,307,17,51344],"class_list":["post-104376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-switzerland","tag-switzerland-coventry-amenda-frankfurt"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116931916421507473","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}