If you're a U.S. national team fan hoping to catch a glimpse of midfielder Jermaine Jones, you may soon get your chance.

Jones returned to practice for Schalke 04 on Tuesday, having finally recovered from a nagging shin injury that has sidelined him for most of 2009. Jones ran through training exercises and some ball work.

U.S. youth international Jared Jeffrey has moved from F.C. Bruges to German Bundesliga side FSV Mainz 05. You can read more about it here. Its yet another young U.S. player in the Bundesliga, and should be interesting to see how he does.

Bayern Munich lived up to their nickname FC Hollywood after they qualified for the last 16 of this season's Champions League in truly dramatic fashion. They never seem to do the task in hand the easy way. Drama always seems to surround the Germans (and sometimes it's not in their favour either).

Jurgen Klinsmann insists that reports linking him with the manager's job at Liverpool are simply rumours, though he also maintains that he will have a new job after the World Cup and that his new post might not be in the Bundesliga.
Reds co-owner Tom Hicks has admitted talking to the former Germany and Bayern Munich coach in the past after previous rumours linking the ex-Tottenham Hotspur striker with an Anfield switch.

It's December 1st! So I hope you're all enjoying that horrible chalky chocolate sheep from your Advent calendars this morning.
But way more importantly, it's International Watch Another League month! That's right kids, it's back. For the entire month of December, I will shun the Premier League in favour of another league, which is especially hard seeing as I'll be in England all next week singing like a girl for schools that teach people to do things like that.

Ladies and gents, I give you the new Niall Quinn...

Luca Toni.

The maths is as follows:

X: Toni is very unhappy at Bayern Munich, having failed to adjust to the German culture. He's also fallen out with manager Louis van Gaal, who is not the most forgiving of men.

Bayern. Hats off to Bayern. They didn't just get the result they needed, they got in style beating Juventus 4-1. This match certainly rates as the best Bayern performance of the season. Something I didn't really expect. Bayern got their season back on track as far as the results were concerned recently, but the football was below par and more worryingly the defense started to get shaky.

Well, Arsenal goes down 1-0 to Olympiakos. For all the talk about how we might be disrespecting the competition by fielding a team of players in their teens and early 20s, it sounds like they went out there and put on a pretty good performance. Playing Olympiakos in Athens is never easy, and a 1-0 loss is nothing to be ashamed of.

Who said German isn't a lyrical language? 'Jens macht pipi' is pure poetry.

Always good to see Mad Jens up to his old tricks.

... is to score more own goals. A player who scored an own goal will usually feel horrible about it. Even more so when he cost his team not just a goal but valuable points or at worst even a trophy. Depending on the overall comedic value of his blunder, the player will receive further ridicule [...]

Strange records were equalled or broken this weekend.

3. Hannover scored three own goals in their match against Borussia Mönchengladbach. They set a new record for own goals scored by one team and equalled the record of most own goals in a Bundesliga match (Kaiserslautern 1-3 Stuttgart, 9th November 1963).

FIFA Club World Cup on Fox Soccer Channel: third-place at 7pm and final at 9pm. EPL on ESPN2: Portsmouth - Liverpool at 7:30am. On Setanta: Fulham - Manchester United at 9:30am, Blackburn - Spurs on Xtra at 5pm (10am on Xtra). On FSC: Manchester City - sunderland at 10am, Arsenal - Hull at 12:30pm, and Aston Villa - Stoke at 5pm.

Feilhaber during Confederations Cup (CC.org/ US State Dept.)

In the US he is popular. Outside of it he is arguably one of the most respected American soccer players to have come out in the past five years. He made a name for himself in the Bundesliga and has become one of the best players in the Danish Superliga.

This is my personal top-ten list of the best teams of the year 2010:10) VfL Wolfsburg: surprising winners of the Bundesliga under Felix Magath.9) Brazil: came out again as hige favourites for the World Cup, qualifying in South America and winning the Confederations Cup in awesome style8) Bordeaux: Broke the dominance of Olympique Lyon winning the French league and was splendid in the CL.

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Greek side Panathinaikos are set to swoop for Liverpool striker Andriy Voronin in the January transfer window, according to reports.

I just added links with RSS feeds to Jaime Trecker's blog on the Fox Sports Community and also the official blog for the Men's U.S. National Team to this website. Even more reasons to make Pro Soccer Weekly your homepage. I have all of the latest news from around the soccer world constantly updated via the RSS feeds from websites such as ESPN Soccernet and the New York Times to the latest news from the Bundesliga.

I didn't get to watch much Bundesliga action last week for reasons I won't bore you with. So this week's round-up promises to be shorter than the essays I've penned in the last couple of weeks. One of the few games that I did manage to catch was Bayern Munich's visit to an emotional AWD Arena to face Hannover.

04.12.2009 - Bundesliga
Bayern München - Gladbach 2:1

The most interesting match of tomorrows round of the Champions League has to be the clash between Juventus Torino and Bayern Munchen. Why is it so important? First of all these two teams have great history in the competition, Juve have won the competition 2 times, 1985 and 1996, and Bayern won it no less than 4 times: 1974, 1975, 1976 and 2001.

Thomas Dooley, former USMNT captain, joins us to talk about the US team and other topics. After retiring as a player who spent most of his career in the Bundesliga, Dooley now lives in California and works with youth soccer and also for Match Analysis, a company that complies soccer statistics and sells the information to soccer clubs and federations.

Vor einer Woche, fast auf die Stunde genau, wurde Christian Gross als neuer Trainer des VfB Stuttgart vorgestellt, nachdem die Verantwortlichen des VfB das Trainerteam um Markus Babbel freigestellt hatten. Viel Zeit, um der Mannschaft seine Philosophie zu vermitteln, hatte der Schweizer nicht, denn in diesen acht Tagen standen zwei wichtige Spiele an: Zum einen in der Champions League gegen Unirea Urziceni, zum anderen im Abstiegskampf der Bundesliga gegen den FSV Mainz 05.

When Jens Lehmann hangs up his boots or Sejad Salihovic's next summer, he can be sure that he retired while he was at the top of his game. His game, of course, is not to be confused with our game. The beautiful game. Although, depending on how you look at it, you can find [...]

13.12.2009 - Bundesliga
Wolfsburg 1-3 Borussia Dortmund

Borussia Mönchengladbach 5-3 Hannover 96
German Bundesliga - 12.12.2009
When a team concedes one own goal in a match you'd generally consider it unfortunate. Two own goals in a match has to go down as a rarity. But to concede three own goals in one game? Well that's just careless.
I just caught some Bundesliga highlights of Borussia Mönchengladbach's 5-3 win over Hannover 96 last weekend and by the end of it I was chuckling away to myself in complete disbelief, as I'm sure the majority of Gladbach fans were too.

It's another full week of fixtures in the top European leagues such as the Spanish Primera Division aka La Liga, French Ligue 1, and Italian Serie A, German Bundesliga, and the Scottish Premier League. FC Barcelona is in UAE playing in the FIFA 2009 Club World Cup but Real Madrid hosts Real Zaragoza in La Liga.

EPL on Setanta: Wolverhampton - Burnley at 8:30am. On FSC: West Ham - Chelsea at 11am and Everton - Birmingham City at 5pm. Serie A on FSC: Roma - Parma at 9am and Inter Milan - Lazio at 2:30pm. Bundesliga on GolTV: Hamburg - Werder Bremen at 10:30am. Ligue 1 on Setanta: Lille - Le Mans at 11am. La Liga on ESPN Deportes: Espanyol - Almeria at 11am and Deportivo - Valencia at 3pm.

Bundesliga "autumn champions" Bayer Leverkusen. Fans celebrate their 30-year stay in the top German division. December 19, 2009.

Photo credit: Flash LEV on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion Photo Pool.

Kop flops Andriy Voronin and Ryan Babel could all leave Liverpool next month as Rafa Benitez looks to raise funds in order to strengthen his stuttering squad.
The Spaniard has grown frustrated with the form and attitude of £10million Dutch forward Ryan Babel, who was last seen limping out of his side's draw with Manchester City in mid-November.

• Bayer Neverkusen? Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.' (Telegraph)
• Bochum's coach Heiko Herrlich brings lessons from fighting cancer to the Bundesliga. (Deutsche Welle)
• Michael Ballack takes pride in the words: Ich bin ein Londoner. (Times Online)
• Bayern Munich is the FC Uli Hoeness in disguise.

Former Germany and Bayern Munich manager Jurgen Klinsmann has remained tight-lipped over rumours that he is to replace Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez next summer.
The 108-time Germany international has long been linked with the Reds and the club's co-owner Tom Hicks has admitted holding talks in the past.

The German Bundesliga has one feature match on Friday, December 4, 2009 as Bayern Munich hosts Borussia Monchengladbach. The match will be covered live (streaming video) on our other site, Free Live Sports TV, at the link below.

Bayern Munich v Borussia Monchengladbach LIVE German Bundesliga Friday, December 4, 2009 19:30 GMT, 14:30 EST

04/12/2009Bayern Monaco - Borussia Moenchegladbach ore 20.3005/12/2009Wolfsburg - Friburgo ore 15.30Stoccarda - Bochum ore 15.30Amburgo - Hoffenheim ore 15.30Borussia Dortmund - Norimberga ore 15.30Hannover - Bayer Leverkusen ore 15.30Eintracht Francoforte - Mainz ore 18.3006/12/2009Colonia - Werder Brema ore 15.

It's another busy weekend of fixtures in Spanish La Liga, Italian Serie A, French Ligue 1, German Bundesliga, and Scottish Premier League. Several matches will be covered on television the United States and United Kingdom including Juventus v Inter Milan (Serie A), Falkirk v Rangers (SPL), and Real Madrid v Almeria.

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Under-17's on Fox Soccer Channel: USA - Brazil at 9pm. EPL on ESPN2: Portsmouth - Burnley at 7:30am. On Setanta: West Ham United - Manchester United at 9:30am, Blackburn - Liverpool at 5pm, and Wigan - Birmingham City at 8:30pm. On Fox Soccer: Arsenal - Stoke at 10am, Manchester City - Chelsea at 12:30pm, and Aston Villa - Hull at 7pm.

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