If there's one thing that Tuesday night taught Fiorentina, it's that by having 22 shots on target and still failing to score against Bayern Munich, you will at some point get punished. The German giants might very well be struggling in the Bundesliga at the moment, they are still a team loaded with world class [. Click to continue reading...

Am morgigen Samstag wird die ganze Fußball-Welt mal wieder nicht auf die Hertha, Wolfsburg oder die Eintracht blicken, sondern auf den FC Bayern München um ihren Star-Trainer Jürgen Klinsmann. Bisher verlief die Saison noch nicht nach Plan - Platz 11 nach 7 Spieltagen sagt hier eigentlich schon alles. Click to continue reading...

Reviewing this year's Bundesliga kits pt.1 (oldfootballshirts.com) Reviewing this year's Bundesliga kits pt.2 (oldfootballshirts.com) Reviewing the history of kit sponsors in the Bundesliga. (ESPN Soccernet) Reviewing the life of someone who looks after all those kits. (DW Bundesliga Kick Off! - VOD - MP4) An interview with Germany's in-form striker Patrick Helmes. Click to continue reading...

Blue days at the Allianz Bate and Bayern had the same idea in the second halves of their respective matches. Hold on for a home draw. However unlike Bate, Bayern Munich happened to be one of the 10 richest clubs in the world. Lyon visited the Allianz tonight and scraped by with a 1-1 [...] Click to continue reading...

You call this a formation? Seven notes on Werder dismantlement of FC Bayern at the Allianz. 1. Stereotyping A defensive player usually makes an attack-minded coach and an attacking player usually makes a defense-minded coach. Granted, there are exceptions such as the Bruno Labbadia's of this world, but the general rule of thumb holds enough merit to [. Click to continue reading...

Jurgen Klinsmann. Master of diversion - so everybody be cool, keine Panik! A year ago, it was all about The Bayern Munich revolution led by the General, birds chirping, sun rising, set to conquer the world, or at least to grab the UEFA Cup - again, thank you Felix. Now there is Californication, a man [. Click to continue reading...

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Callis Analyse vor dem Spitzenspiel des letzten Spieltages hat Hand und Fuß und die meisten Fußballexperten hätten ihm von ein paar Tagen weitgehend zugestimmt. Umso schöner, dass der Fußball immer für eine Überraschung gut ist.

Werder Bremen hat sich mit dem sensationellen 5:2-Sieg hoffentlich aus der Krise geschossen und in München dürfte passend zum Start des Oktoberfests die große Ernüchterung eingekehrt sein.

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Having had the time to digest Bayern's 2-5 mauling by Bremen (no need to rehash things here, if you need a refresher check out the excellent post at Deutsche Welle's Ballspiel or the video highlights at 101 Great Goals), I wanted to know exactly how bad it was for the Bavarians. No matter what [...] Click to continue reading...

IL TECNICO GIALLOROSSO
TRA I GRANDI DEL CONTINENTE

Presa l'Europa, riprendi la Roma

Spalletti ieri a Nyon al Forum per Allenatori
di Club d'Elite. Oggi parlerà, ieri ha ringraziato
per i complimenti Scolari. Che guida quel Chelsea
"peccato originale" della stagione romanista

Di DANIELE LO MONACO
Funziona spesso così, negli ambienti calcistici
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Jürgen Klinsmann and Uli Hoeness get all emotional during Bayern's match against Hertha (4-1). Click to continue reading...

There are two ways to look at Tuesday night's Bayern Munich vs. Inter Milan match. The first is to say this was a pretty boring game (because in all honesty, it was). It seemed as if neither team was sufficiently inspired to get the win, and this despite the prestigious nature of the fixture (it [.. Click to continue reading...

A look at Bayer Leverkusen's Bruno Labbadia concludes our The New Gaffer: Introducing... series this week. So far we've examined, in order: the journeyman, the company man, the stranger and, er, Martin Jol. Labbadia is a mix between a poor man's Jürgen Klinsmann and a poor man's Christian Bale (take a look! Click to continue reading...

Today is Jürgen Klinsmann's 44th birthday, which is a good excuse to post a video of this particularly beautiful goal - which would later be crowned Goal of the Year 1987. Final score: Stuttgart 3-0 Bayern. Klinsmann was still playing for VfB Stuttgart back then and ended the season as the league's leading goalscorer and was [. Click to continue reading...

The Deutsche Presse Agentur released a poll yesterday about predictions for the upcoming season. Bayern Munich was the unanimous favorite of Bundesliga coaches to repeat as champions. The most common reason given was the quality of Jürgen Klinsmann's squad. What follows is a hasty translation of what each of the 18 gaffers [. Click to continue reading...

New(ish) Bayern Munich caoch Jürgen Klinsmann has the German media all over him before the pre-season game against Borussia Dortmund yesterday. Dortmund won 2-1 to hand Klinsmann his first defeat as Bayern boss. Photo Credit: AP Photo/Martin Meissner 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...

The Sun (a well-known source of completely made up news) reports that the shock name on Arsene Wenger's shopping list is Germany midfielder Torsten Frings. A shock move, because Frings is 31 years old and not at all the normal type of player. In fact, I'm only posting this because it's one of those moves (like Mario Gomez) that makes me happy just to daydream about.

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Next we come to one of the genuine big guns of international football, the Germans, all of Europe's favourite second team and one that I'm sure most England fans will be wishing well from the comfort of their armchairs.


Germany
Official coach slogan - Germany - one team - one purpose
Unofficial coach slogan - Doing it for the Hoff! Click to continue reading...

Guss Hiddink is to every international team what Jürgen Klinsmann was to US Soccer. Meaning, every time a spot becomes available, his name is thrown into the ring.

But it looks like Hiddink has gone the way of Klinsmann and taken his name out of consideration for at least two years as he has signed a new contract with Russia through 2010. Click to continue reading...

Soon-to-be Bayern manager Jurgen Klinsmann was in Phoenix yesterday to watch baseball's Oakland A's train. His goal, pick team manager Billy Beane's brain on how to find quality talent.

Beane, who has a very low budget by Major League Baseball standards, is incredibly good at finding unknown talent by using a large set of statistics (called sabermetrics) to evaluate them. 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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Devastated by his inability to land a coaching job in the US, Juergen Klinsmann settled for the top spot with little known German side Bayern Munich. Klinsmann had desperately wanted to take control of either the US men's national team or the LA Galaxy, but he failed to impress either of them, forcing him to turn tail and run back to Germany. Click to continue reading...

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We might know by the end of the day if a German or a Dutchman will guide the Galaxy next season. Rumor has it that Alexi Lalas and the LA franchise have narrowed their options for manager down to Juergen Klinsmann or Ruud Gullit.

Klinsmann is the constant shinning hope of US soccer organizations as he was a fantastic player, had a great spell coaching Germany in 2006, lives in America and knows the US game. Click to continue reading...

The regular season might be over but the firing season has just begun. So which coaches are safe and who has a target on their back? Let's take a look and see.

First, those who are safe:

Tom Soehn (DC United since 2007) - Had some trouble early but regrouped the team and made them into a force. A late season let down is disappointing but nothing close to deserving a pink slip. Click to continue reading...

MLS officials are denying reports concerning the expansion team in Seattle.

"I spoke with (MLS President) Mark Abbott yesterday in Kansas City and asked him if we have a deal in Seattle and he said 'no,'" said league spokesman Dan Courtemanche. "Our goal is to announce the fifteenth and sixteenth teams by the end of 2007 or in the first quarter of 2008. Click to continue reading...

Jurgen Klinsmann has announced that he is ready to return to the world of full-time soccer management, but where will he end up. Will it be is old club Tottenham Hotspur or is Chelsea calling or could Alexi Lalas pull off a huge coup and land him in LA? Let's see, if I was a soccer manager, which club would I go for?

In other news, Eddie Johnson had a bit of a shopping spree over the weekend as he purchased $85,000 in jewelry while in LA. Click to continue reading...

Reports from England suggest that former German coach Jürgen Klinsmann is close to taking over the LA Galaxy sidelines from Frank Yallop.

Jürgen Klinsmann could be about to take over as the head coach of the Los Angeles Galaxy after Frank Yallop, the incumbent, admitted to feeling the strain of managing a losing team under an increased media glare since the signing of David Beckham.

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Amid buzz that Jürgen Klinsmann is considering replacing Bruce
Arena as U.S. soccer's lightning rod, I wonder, how would Landon Donovan fare under Klinsmann?

I raise the question because Klinsmann remains cool about the golden boy. Speaking in January 2003 about Donovan's desire to remain in MLS rather than give Europe a try, Klinsmann said: "He has plenty of talent, football-wise. Click to continue reading...

Landon Donovan, the golden boy of U.S. soccer, on the chances he'll return to Europe:

"I'd probably become a better soccer player just from the day-in, day-out grind of it there. But I wouldn't be a better person. I wouldn't be a happy person. I'd be pretty miserable ...

"There are a lot of factors that would go into [a possible move]: the country, the language, the people, the playing situation. Click to continue reading...