It appears that the LA Galaxy's Landon Donovan is determined to prove his critics wrong as he looks back to test his skill in "Futbol Europa". So much so that he fancies a trip back to Germany according to this report from Steve Goff of the Washington Post. Here is an excerpt:

"Remember this summer when USA/Galaxy forward Landon Donovan talked about giving Europe another try?

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Five points if you can guess what country Lake Balaton is in?

For the record, I'd have scored a zero.

Anyway, here are the rankings. One team is on a surge and has shot up, up, up the rankings. They're not in a playoff position yet but I'd take them to beat all the teams from 6-14 without question, at least at home. Click to continue reading...

Call it a coincidence but in the same week when former Houston forward Joseph Ngwenya was revealed to hav a trial with Bayern Munich, the Dynamo were once again struggling to score goal.

A third straight draw, and third scoreless draw of the season, was all the defending champions had to show for its Western Conference showdown vs.

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Call it a coincidence but in the same week when former Houston forward Joseph Ngwenya was revealed to hav a trial with Bayern Munich, the Dynamo were once again struggling to score goal.

A third straight draw, and third scoreless draw of the season, was all the defending champions had to show for its Western Conference showdown vs.

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As readers of this blog learned Wednesday from beat writer Scott Wolf, neither David Beckham (sore hamstring) or Landon Donovan (flu) practiced with the team yesterday and could miss tonight's game against the New England Revolution, who will have Taylor Twellman on the bench.

So possibly no stars for the Galaxy, but there will be fireworks after the game.

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Zimbabwe international forward, Joseph Ngwenya, a name familiar to most American Soccer fans as a longtime MLS player is on a three week trial with Bayern Munich. Ngwenya played four years in MLS with Los Angeles, Columbus and Houston. His... Click to continue reading...

Former Houston Dynamo and Zimbabwe international striker Joseph Ngwenya is on a three week trial with Bayern Munich, which seems to prove a rumor that circulated back in January when Ngwenya moved to Austrian side Kärnten. The rumor had Jurgen Klinsmann 'hiding' Ngwenya in Austria until he took over as manager of Bayern. Click to continue reading...

Joseph Ngwenya, the Zimbabwean International is on a three week trial with German Giants Bayern Munich.  Ngwenya spent four years in MLS before leaving last season for Austria.  He made one appearance and is now looking for a new club.  Munich only has four strikers on their squad which might have sparked their interest in [. Click to continue reading...

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Ex-Houston Dynamo striker Joseph Ngwenya's name has popped up in the news recently after the 27-year-old began a trial three-week spell with German superpower Bayern Munich. If you'll direct your attention to Texas you'll see a collective mouth-watering from the Dynamo faithful.

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Ex-Houston Dynamo striker Joseph Ngwenya's name has popped up in the news recently after the 27-year-old began a trial three-week spell with German superpower Bayern Munich. If you'll direct your attention to Texas you'll see a collective mouth-watering from the Dynamo faithful.

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Usually we do not report on players who have already left MLS but since many believed our rumor at the time that he might go to Bayern was "ludicrous" it bears reporting. Also should such a trial end poorly then it would raise the possibility of Ngwenya returning to a Dynamo team which would love to have him back. Click to continue reading...

It is possible, as we have discussed before that a couple players could be on their way back to Major League Soccer from Europe this summer. We just finished talking about Josh Wolff, now we are going down to Houston with Nate Jaqua and Joseph Ngwenya and their possible return to the two-time champions. Click to continue reading...

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Has his European experiment scoring goals for Cashpoint SC Rheindorf Altach ended? It would appear so. According to this report he may be coming home to the Dynamo. A Dynamo team which could use another proven goal scorer. According to this report....

• On Jaqua: Canetti labeled as "serious" the talks the team and Jaqua's agent have had regarding the forward's possible return to MLS.

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This is the Houston Dynamo we've been waiting to see.

The two-time MLS champions got off to a terrible start to the season but Houston is hitting its stride now, as evidenced by its 4-1-1 stretch in its past six MLS matches. The latest victory came against a short-handed TFC squad that is having some struggles after its own good run of form.

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So as I was at work today, I had the headphones plugged in listening to Glenn Davis' Dynamo All Access radio show from Monday night. If you've never heard Davis' take on all things footy (but mostly Dynamo), you're really missing out. The show is lively, entertaining, not afraid to pick fights and defend positions and an indispensable part of the soccer landscape here in Orangeville. Click to continue reading...

I guess Nate Jaqua really likes being around Joseph Ngwenya because he is about to move to the same Austrian league (link via SBI). The club that Jaqua will now call home is SCR Altach, who currently stand in eighth place (out of 10).

Jaqua is another quality player leaving Houston, meaning the team is starting to look a bit lost up top. Click to continue reading...

Former Houston Dynamo Joseph Ngwenya has landed in the Austrian Bundesliga, but is this just a quick stop in route to Bayern Munich? Here's the speculation:

The group of people trying to help Ngwenya's career include German coach Jurgen Klinsmann, who was impressed by the striker's performance when they met at Major League Soccer side Los Angeles Galaxy.

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The defending champions Houston Dynamo are losing strikers left and right. Paul Daglish was released at the end of last year. Nate Jaqua is supposedly looking for a job in Austria and it was just announced that Joseph Ngwenya is on his way to Austria.

Ngwenya has just signed a deal with SK Austria and keeps him there until the end of the current Austrian season with an option to add another full season.

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With Joseph Ngwenya now heading to Austria and rumors that Nate Jaqua is trying to join him, the Internet (or at least the MLS corners of it) are abuzz with opinions on the problems Dynamo are going to have scoring goals in 2008. And while the problems are real ones, a sober analysis says not to sound the warning sirens just, just yet. Click to continue reading...

It's not so much the trades I'm reading about today that interest me, and not all are - how do you say? - consummated, as the fallout they're producing. Here's a quick tour, starting with the outgoing and confirmed. - Joseph Ngwenya to SK Austria. Sounds nice for the player, but what's it do to the [. Click to continue reading...

For the second year in a row, two former Rhode Island Stingrays (Premier Development League) were selected – in back-to-back order, no less – in the MLS SuperDraft.

Defender Matthew Britner (Brown University) was drafted in the third round (41st overall) by the New England Revolution.

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Ives Galarcep on Soccer by Ives is reporting that Dynamo are actively trying to trade up for tomorrow's SuperDraft to get a shot at Texans FC player Brek Shea, a left winger. Shea, pictured, an 18-year-old from College Station, is a Generation Adidas player who apparently has already expressed his desire to play for Dynamo. Click to continue reading...

Joseph Ngwenya will head on over to Germany to tryout his luck with Alemania Aachen, a Bundesliga2 club. To Ngwenya? It's just a routine training stop in Europe to hone his skills - to the Oranja faithful, it's a bit of a 'hold-your-breath' moment. I have to admit, I was quick to write Ngwenya off this year in terms of talent but he provided some of the years best offensive moments. Click to continue reading...

Welcome to this, my last MLS Cup preview, where I'll turn my (divided) attention to how the Houston Dynamo's offense matches up with the New England Revolution defense. I'm burning out ever so slightly on this project, less because it doesn't interest me than it only feels like more blah-blah-blahing as we get closer to [...] Click to continue reading...

It was a weekend of statements. From DC United's "knock this battery off my shoulder...bitches," through Red Bull New York's, "don't call it a come-back," all the way down to the Los Angeles Galaxy reeling out a quiet "Yeah...it can get worse, actually" while longingly eyeing the last day of the regular season, the league [...] Click to continue reading...

Well my predictions about this competition at least to this point look laughable. Pachuca my pick to win the Superliga controlled the match versus L.A. Galaxy but some fantastic individual play by Landon Donovan and Cobi Jones cost them the game. Then last night, DC United the team I picked to face Pachuca in the August 29th final struggled at home and finally ended in a draw with 10 man Moriela. Click to continue reading...

As a man who tries to tell the truth at least 80% of the time, I'm not going to lie to you: I turned off the Houston Dynamo's romp over the Chicago Fire after Nate Jaqua scored. More than the tinges of paranoia telling me that Jaqua scoring some augurs the Apocalypse, I turned off the game because I knew the Fire had, at most, one goal in them against a defense as stout as Houston's. Click to continue reading...

So what did we know going into this match? Well, Houston is on a roll and looking to be the class of the league and Chicago is in a nosedive and trying hard to pull out of it before they plow into RSL on the way down. You know that silly "that's why they play the game" line that sportscasters seem to be contractually obligated to trot out? Well, it didn't really apply here. Click to continue reading...