A photograph of Borussia Dortmund's new home shirt for the 2010-11 season has been revealed.

"Kappa has opted for a retro design. This shirt is characterized by a black polo neck and horizontal thin black pinstripes down the shirt," according to Todo Sobre Camisetas.

What do you think about the new Borussia Dortmund jersey?

Congratulations are in order for Germany's Lukas Podolski, who has revealed that he proposed to baby mum/long-term girlfriend, Monika Pulchalski shortly before the World Cup.

Not familiar with the Köln forward? He likes posing with jungle cats, he likes posing with product in cologne ads, and posing whilst making us LOL.

With J Hutcherson -- The last time Hannover 96 was in the 2.Bundesliga was the 2001-02 season. They got out of it by winning the title, capping a run of form that had them working their way out of the third division only a few years earlier. Now, they're facing a relegation fight to stay up in a tough season by any standard.

FA Cup on Fox Soccer Channel: Bolton - Spurs at 8:30am and Crystal Palace - Aston Villa at 10:30an. On Setanta: Fulham - Notts County at 10am. Championship on Setanta: Sheffield United - Bristol City at 6:45pm. Eredivisie on ESPN Deportes: PSV Eindhoven - Heracles at 8:30am. La Liga on ESPN Deportes: Deportivo - Espanyol at 11am and Barcelona - Atletico Madrid at 3pm.

Jermaine Jones is making progress in his recovery from leg surgery, a recover that has turned into an eight-month ordeal, but the U.S. national team-eligible midfieler still hasn't set a timetable on his return.

In his first extensive interview in months, Jones told Der Westen that he has begun ball training work in his rehabilitation, though he is still not training with the first team.

So the only name you should be chanting today is Cacau! (and Senor Pep, of course). Cacau is a Brazilian-born German national team player (ah, a concorrência!) who scored four goals in Stuttgart's 5-1 win last night against Cologne.

Manchester United's Champions League quarter final at Bayern Munich gave the BBC an opportunity to have a close look at two very different financial models of how clubs should operate in order to...
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Featuring Germany World Cup 2006 and 2010 star Lukas Podolski, 1. FC Köln is a German professional football club based in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed in 1948 as a merger of the clubs Kölner Ballspiel-Club 1901 and SpVgg Sülz 07. The club finished the 2010/11 German Bundesliga season in 13th place.

Hungarian ref Alvaro Garcia Miguel gave Gábor Nagy of Haladás a red card and then gets it snatched out of his hand by an irate Balazs Molnar who then naturally also got his marching orders.

And then the fastest red in the history of the Bundesliga .Youssef Mohamad of Cologne managing to collect one in the 83rd second of the game.

While offensive production has been one important story of the Premier League season so far - in particular for leaders Chelsea and Arsenal - matches aren't won with offense alone. At the end of the day, it is the difference in goals that matters, and for that, defensive production is important. Here's how the Big Four leagues stack up, using data from the 2009-10 season (no good reason to assume this year will be any different).

Schalke go 0 out of 4 to slip from crisis to meltdown. Wolfsburg and Stuttgart grab their first wins. Other top clubs keep stuttering. The little ones keep rocking the table.
Schalke 1-3 Dortmund. Schalke had lost their previous matches as well, but at least there was something of an upward spiral, with hints of better attacking football or a slightly more stable defense.

Michael Bradley has just rung the bell to put 'Gladbach up 2-0 at arch rivals FC Cologne with 20 minutes left. Clip to come...- Greg Seltzer

GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany — Hugo Almeida scored a hat-trick but was then red-carded as Werder Bremen took the first step in salvaging a disappointing season on Sunday by defeating St. Pauli 3-0 and snapping a seven-game winless streak. Almeida scored in the first and 20th minutes to give Bremen a 2-0 lead before the Portuguese international [.

Schalke 3-0 Koln ( Raul Gonzalez hat trick) Schalke beat FC Koln 3-0 at the Veltins Arena on December 18, 2010 thanks to a hat trick from Spanish striker Raul Gonzalez. Raul scored in the 30th, 50th and 87th minutes of the game to give Schalke a 3-0 win over Koln. Schalke vs Koln 1-0 [...] Related posts:

1. Schalke 1-2 Stuttgart goals highlights All goals and video highlights from the Schalke 04 vs.

Legendary Spain striker Raul scored his second hat-trick of the season as Schalke hit Cologne for three, the Hat-Trick brings Raul's goal tally for the season thus far to 11. How many more will he add to his tally this season?

What you see above is a delightful little red and white slipper bearing the Cologne club crest. The only problem is that this Cologne slipper clearly has "Hamburger SV" stitched into it and not "1. FC Koln" like the other half of the pair, which the German Cologne fan who bought them wasn't too pleased with.

According to Manchester United's official website, Manchester United have loaned out winger Zoran Tosic to Cologne for the rest of the season.

Well, the January transfer window has come and gone and what has United done to bolster their roster? Not a darn thing...

I don't know about you, but I am not convinced that the current roster is good enough to push for either the premiership title, or a Champions League title. So, what has Sir Alex and the Glaziers done to help the squad?

Germany's €10m striker started the season insisting he 'had nothing to prove' but has little to show for himself so far.
Lukas Podolski finds little to laugh about at comedy Cologne.

EPL on ESPN2: Chelsea - Manchester City at 7:30am. On Fox Soccer Channel: Birmingham City - Wigan at 10am and Stoke City - Arsenal at 12:30pm. On Setanta: Bolton - Wolves at 10am and Burnley - Portsmouth at 5pm. Bundesliga on GolTV: Mainz - Werder Bremen at 9:30am. On ESPN Deportes: Bayer Leverkusen - Cologne at 12:30pm.

FA Cup on Fox Soccer Plus: Portsmouth - Birmingham at 7:30am. On Fox Soccer Channel: Fulham - Spurs at 5pm. EPL on Fox Soccer Plus: Arsenal - Burnley at 10am. On FSC: West Ham United - Bolton at 10am and Wolverhampton - Manchester United at 12:30pm. Bundesliga on ESPN Deportes: Cologne - Bayern Munich at 9:30am and Borussia Dortmund - Borussia Moenchengladbach at 4pm.

I was born into the English leagues. I grew up in Britain so the only leagues I could see on television and see in person when I was a child in the late 70s and early 80s were the British leagues. And one of the factors that attracted me most to those leagues, not that I had much of a choice, was the noise and passion shown by the supporters.

Cologne's Lukas Podolski became the latest in a long line of players to score against their former employers this weekend, when he fired a long distance free kick past Hans-Jorg Butt in the Bayern Munich goal. But the real relief was that the man known as Poldi scored at all. After nearly turning to mush on [.

So perhaps this is where we should be.

Two giants of German football locking horns for the title.

Bayern Munich have won 5 of the last 9 championships. Magath has won 3 of the last 5, is responsible for 2 of Bayern's 5 and even led Stuttgart to 2nd in the past decade.

Michael Bradley spearheaded the defensive work for Gladbach as they took a point away from their game against local rivals FC Cologne while Steve Cherundolo and Hannover lost to Stuttgart.

Steve Cherundolo will likely make his return to the starting line-up when Hannover 96 host FC Cologne while David Yeldell will be between the sticks when TuS Koblenz tries to climb out of the relegation zone.

Hannover 96 defender Steve Cherundolo bagged a sweet free kick as him team's consolation in yesterday's 4-1 loss to Cologne. I was hoping to find a better clip, but this is what we have.- Greg Seltzer

US international defender Steve Cherundolo scored a consolation goal off a free kick over the weekend in Hanover's 4-1 loss to Cologne.

Here's a welcome sight for supporters of the USMNT: video of US international defender Steve Cherundolo scoring a consolation goal via free kick over the weekend in Hannover's 4-1 loss to Cologne. Cherundolo, who started in all three of his country's games during the 2006 World Cup, recently returned to the pitch for Hannover 96 after having been sidelined by a shoulder injury in late January.

First Star: Steve Cherundolo got Hannover's only goal in a 4-1 loss to Cologne at AWD-Arena. Hannover went a man down in the 45th minute. Cherundolo's goal came in the 81st, with Hannover already trailing 4-0. The loss has them in 17th-place, two points from safety. Second Star: Jozy Altidore contributed in another relegation battle, with Hull City getting a surprise home win against Fulham.

Steve Cherundolo netted his first league goal in nearly three years to lessen the sting of Hannover's huge loss at home to Cologne while David Yelldell and Koblenz had a rough day in Duisburg.

A quick flick to the news this weekend and you probably heard about the Icelandic volcano currently spewing its uninvited material all over global airspace. Planes are down, people are down and spirits are down. It's affected football quite a bit, too, as Barca are being forced to read this post on a bus via [.

Zoran Tosic's Manchester United career hasn't exactly gone to plan, with him seemingly not doing enough in training to get much of a go for the first team.

He is enjoying himself on loan with Cologne, who are currently 11th in the Bundesliga, having scored another two goals last week.

He has now revealed that he wants to make the loan move permanent and stay in Germany.

Bayer Leverkusen's central defender tries his luck mind controlling team mate Arturo Vidal, to make him score the winning goal against Frankfurt. With limited success, as Vidal's great chance in the 66th minute went wide. Hertha's coach Friedhelm Funkel meanwhile performs a much more impressive levitation trick during his side's win over Cologne.

Leverkusen lose at last and do it in style. Bayern drop points and keep the top spot. Schalke emerges from the shadow. Hannover stop the downward spiral for the moment.

Leverkusen. In hindsight, it's easy to say it had been coming. What's certain though is, that Leverkusen's defeat at the hands of Nuremberg (2-3) was preceded by a number of draws and victories, that were no longer confident, but rather bumpy and lucky at times.

197 countries will tune in live to show the spectacle of Hertha Berlin getting relegated and some may even stay on air after the final whistle to show Bayern Munich being crowned Bundesliga champions. Those 197 countries will miss out on the real deciders for the one remaining Champions League and Europa League spot, the last direct relegation spot and the relegation play-off spot though.

Good news for Manchester United's Zoran Tosic who was selected for the provisional squad. The wingman has been on loan out in Germany for Cologne, managing 5 goals from nine starts and five sub appearances. It has been reported that Zoran has the desire to make his stay permanent in Germany. However he will have been disappointed to have not been at Old Trafford when both Giggs and Nani were unavailable for the Carling Cup Final against Villa.

While Manchester United fans will have their eyes fixed on the progress of their big name stars as they do battle for their various countries in South Africa, they can easily overlook Serbia's...
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Life is rosy if you are a Slovenian football fan. Not only have the Slovenians qualified for a World Cup for the second time, their Prime Minister Borut Pahor also cleaned the team's boots as a reward, a charming act showing how football can emphasize a sense of community in a country.

UPDATE: According to Manchester United's official website, CSKA Moscow have signed Zoran Tosic for an undisclosed fee. Tosic has signed a five-year deal with the club.

June 15th, 2010 According to Sky Sports News, Manchester United winger Zoran Tosic looks set to join CSKA Moscow after they made a better offer than Cologne.