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German national team coach Joachim Löw unveiled the squad that will make the trip to the United States to play friendlies with the US national team on June 2nd and Ecuador on May 29th. Four players will make their national team debut.  Freiburg’s Max Kruse, Mainz’s Nicolai Müller and Bayer Leverkusen pair Philipp Wollscheid and [...]

Like German sports publication kicker wrote, it truly is the end of an institution.  Next to Alex Ferguson at Manchester United, no coach has been in charge at a club in the big leagues as long as Schaaf and after 14 years at the club, he and Bremen have decided on mutual consent. After a [...]

This week Christoph Metzelder officially called an end to his career in a press conference.  Plagued by recurring injuries over the last couple of years, the 32-year-old defender who is still under contract with Schalke until the end of the season has decided to hang up his boots after 14 years of professional football. Although [...]

Reigning A-League Young Player of the Year Marco Rojas has just completed a free transfer move to VfB Stuttgart. The 21 year-old New Zealander has signed a four year deal and will join the club this summer. The deal has been in the works for a while as his father (who is also his agent) [...]

Despite an on-going tax evasion investigation, under-fire Uli Hoeness is set to remain as president of the supervisory board of treble-seeking Bayern Munich until at least the end of the season. The Bavarian club’s supervisory board voted unanimously in favour of Hoeness staying on, declining to bow to increasing public pressure for the Bayern supremo to [...]

As Sven Ulreich stepped onto the pitch of the Mercedes-Benz Arena on Saturday afternoon, a record was broken. Since August 2010, the Swabian shot-stopper hasn’t missed a single minute of Bundesliga action. The young German has in fact featured in all of Stuttgart’s last  100 Bundesliga matches. Against Greuther Fürth he overtook the previous record [...]

An exciting finish by Real Madrid in the second leg of their Champions League semifinal second leg match with Borussia Dortmund went all for naught, as the 4-1 result in the first leg achieved by the Germans was enough to book a place in the Champions League final at Wembley Stadium.  The Madrid side had [...]

The wait is finally over.  After a 28-year absence from Germany’s top flight, Eintracht Braunschweig will finally return to the Bundesliga following their 1-0 win against Ingolstadt on Friday.  Damir Vranic’s dramatic match-winning goal in the second minute of stoppage time gave the team three of the most important points in club history and secured [...]

Borussia Dortmund forward Robert Lewandowski produced the game of a lifetime, scoring four goals for the home side as they handed Jose Mourinho’s Real Madrid a harsh 4-1 loss Wednesday evening.  A day after Bayern Munich had spanked mighty Barcelona in the other Champions League semifinal, Jurgen Klopp’s Dortmund side have proven, after previously unsuccessful [...]

The Tuesday meeting of titans FC Bayern Munich and FC Barcelona created an atmosphere of anticipation worldwide, pitting two clubs that had only lost a combined three matches in domestic play this year, both loaded with talent and intention.  But Bayern Munich proved themselves, at least on this day, the much superior side, as they [...]