YB & COFFEE forever!

Everybody in the city of Bern knows Steve von Bergen and Marco Wölfli since winning the Swiss Football Championship in 2018 and 2019. The two football veterans have been playing for our BSC Young Boys for quite some time and can look back on successful careers with many international matches.

Steve von Bergen has been on the pitch for the BSC Young Boys since 2013. Born in Neuchâtel, Steve started as a young football talent with the youth team of FC Hauterive before moving to FC Neuchâtel in 2000. In 2005 Steve was brought to FC Zurich, where he contributed a great deal to the Swiss championship title in 2006 and the title defence in 2007. Steve then moved on to Berlin for the Berta BSC. From 2010 he played in Italy, where Steve played for AC Cesana, CFC Genoa and US Palermo in the coming years. In 2013, the central defender returned to Switzerland and signed a five-year contract with YB. Steve has played 50 international matches with the Swiss national team and was at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and 2014 in Brazil. With the BSC Young Boys, he personally won his third and fourth Swiss championship titles in 2018 and 2019.

Marco Wölfli has been playing for the BSC Young Boys since 1998. The goalkeeper from Solothurn began his football career in 1991 with FC Fulgor Grenchen. From 1997 he played for FC Solothurn for a year before signing a contract with the Young Boys in 1998. In 2002, he was loaned to FC Thun for a year and a half to gain playing experience. In 2003, Marco returned to YB and became a regular goalkeeper. Since then, he has played nearly 400 official games for the Bern club. In addition there are 11 international matches with the Swiss national team and a participation in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The highlight of his sporting career was the double win of the 2018 and 2019 Swiss Championships with the BSC Young Boys.

Go YB!

As an official Partner of the Young Boys we at Blasercafé are involved in every game for the Swiss championship. We were all the more delighted when Steve von Bergen and Marco Wölfli arrived at our Rösterei Kaffee und Bar in search of a suitable coffee machine.

Our managing director and family member Marc Käppeli personally introduced the coffee machines to the two football stars.

Coffee connects

For us, coffee is a bridge-builder between people, relationships and networks. Coffee is the substance that connects us. In the friendship between Steve von Bergen and Marco Wölfli, coffee also played a historic role. Marco convinced his friend and then Nati player Steve von Bergen to switch to the BSC Young Boys as well when he shared many cups of coffee between the games of the Swiss national team. "I don't even remember how much coffee Marco paid me to talk together," Steve remembers according to BLICK.

This shared passion for delicious coffee led the footballers to us, where they each purchased an ECM Mechanika V Slim Starter Kit. This attractive home barista starter kit with the compact dual-circuit ECM Mechanika V Slim contains the most important accessories needed for making perfect espresso and all frothed milk drinks.

The purchase of this starter kit includes free participation in our Home-Barista course. Here Steve and Marco learned the first steps to brew a perfect espresso with their new machines. Giuliano also showed them how to froth the milk for a real Italian cappuccino.

Marco Wölfli and Steve von Bergen in the Home-Barista course with Giuliano in the Rösterei Kaffee und Bar.

At the end of the day Steve and Marco returned home happy with their newly learned barista skills. Maybe we'll soon see the two athletes in another coffee course - if they train their barista skills as diligently as their football skills, we're confident that they'll soon be able to graduate from a certified Barista Skills Professional. ;-)

YB FOREVER!