Our ambition is to try to circumscribe the construction process of some Swiss national representations, through a succession of major sporting events: football matches between national teams Swiss and German between 1920 and 1942. The elements highlighted emphasize the celebration of a Swiss imagined communities. Neutral, united, fierce, homogeneous, the Swiss football players are the moving portion of an Imagined communities, constantly redefining itself toward an Other German. And if the results are not always favorable, national characterization operating also in the Swiss accounts of defeats, allows us to affirm the sustainable nature of these representations
Football; imagined communities; Switzerland; interwar period