UCLA's Sydney Leroux was the top pick of the Atlanta Beat during the 2012 WPS Draft on Friday.

Forward Sydney Leroux, who currently is training with the U.S. Women's National Team in Los Angeles trying to make the squad for the 2012 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, was selected as the top pick by the Atlanta Beat during Friday's 2012 WPS Draft at the NSCAA Convention in Kansas City, Mo.

It might be the first time in soccer history that frozen custard helped secure a signing.

Earlier this month as Sarah Hagen (Appleton North/UW-Milwaukee) weighed a contract offer from German club FC Bayern Munich against staying in the U.S. to play in Women's Professional Soccer, the prolific forward made her way to her local Kopp's Frozen Custard for a snack.

Manchester City vs Bayern Munich 2-0 Highlights Champions League 2011 Video Goals Silva Toure is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

Manchester City vs Bayern Munich 2-0 Highlights Champions League 2011 Video Goals Silva Toure is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter Manchester City vs Bayern Munich 2011 ( Man City vs FC Bayern Munchen video below) Final score and result:- Manchester City vs Bayern Munich 2-0 ( David Silva, Yaya Toure) [.

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Maybe Dortmund just weren't angry enough. Following through with this theory, I can't tell you what made them so angry last season. But they certainly felt pretty good about themselves and their chances in the Champions League coming out of the summer break. After losing to Olympiacos midweek (declaring bankruptcy, Euro crisis, any Greece related pun you like), they had to face up to the bitter reality of possibly spending next year out of the Euro zone (sorry).

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This feels like the only fitting way. Put the ball in the back of the net yourself, if no other team is able to. Holger Badstuber put it there under pressure to Napoli's credit. Philipp Lahm failed to deal with Maggio to Badstuber's credit. And so Manuel Neuer's record run across all competitions ended after 1147 minutes.

In absence of any real competition, Bayern turn to the record books. Manuel Neuer is still in the hunt for Timo Hildebrand's Bundesliga record. Bayern are on a good way to break their own record of conceding the fewest goals a season. They might even try besting their own record of scoring the most goals.

Schalke fans might want to skip this. Everybody else, who has seen enough of Bayern players in Lederhosen and WAGs in Dirndls, can skip this as well.

It's Oktoberfest time in Munich again and Bayern paid a visit. As they do every year. And either Bayern are already operating on a level, where a 0-0 draw away at Hoffenheim equals a horrible defeat, or they really would have rather spend their day someplace else.

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Depending on your allegiances and grievances:

• Bayern's Away Support.
• A Gazprom delegation.
• Felix Magath and his staff paying their former employees a visit.

Spotted by Ian Holyman ahead of the game between Schalke and Bayern.

Borussia Dortmund mark return to the Champions League with a bang. And a missed opportunity. Dortmund's game against Arsenal was eerily similar to their Europa League matches against Sevilla and Paris last season. Dortmund dominated proceedings and failed to convert their dominance into goals.

Borussia Dortmund mark return to the Champions League with a bang. And a missed opportunity. Dortmund's game against Arsenal was eerily similar to their Europa League matches against Sevilla and Paris last season. Dortmund dominated proceedings and failed to convert their dominance into goals.

Bayern stopped reinventing and are themselves again. A premature autobiography by the captain keeps everybody busy off the pitch. Games are routinely won on the pitch. The table is topped. Jupp Heynckes is the coach. Sounds like a short best-of compilation from the past 20 years of Bayern Munich.

...and the following group stage draw.

Klaas-Jan Huntelaar is a decent striker. Quite a bit more than decent, but following his disappointing first season at Schalke (13 goals in 35 matches in all competitions), we'll only slowly roll out the superlatives. Anyway, he has now scored 12 in 6 and made sure Schalke's Europa League season wasn't disappointingly cut short.

Jan Schlaudraff had one of those games. He used to have a couple of those at Alemannia Aachen too. They earned him a call up to the national team and a premature transfer to Bayern Munich. From there it all went downhill for a couple of seasons, all the way to the point where Hannover desperately wanted to get rid of their top earner.

1. Title candidates stumble and struggle. Good news for the rest of the league: Mario Götze has off-days. Dortmund have a bogey team and are perfectly beatable. The good news for Dortmund: their biggest rivals still have some way to go to be a serious threat. Both Leverkusen and Bayern just about grinded out their first unconvincing wins.

As is the first but certainly not last call for video replays.

While their football is still lacking some punch, Bayern at least got back what had deserted them for most of last season: the Bayern-Dusel. While Wolfsburg had a perfectly valid goal disallowed for offside, Bayern, after struggling to break down Wolfsburg for 89 minutes, eventually got their breakthrough via Luiz Gustavo in the 90th minute.

The Bundesliga is back in its 49th incarnation and Friday's curtain raiser was both wonderful and frightening frightening at least for Bayern, Leverkusen and who else might have had vague hopes to win the league next year.

Dortmund 3-1 Helpless SV. Defending champions Dortmund kicked off the new season in style and with a promise of beautiful football, only they seem to be able to deliver this season.

Mario Gomez finished the season as the Bundesliga's top goalscorer with 28 goals. A good enough reason for a little congratulatory video featuring some of Gomez' Bayern team mates, former Borussia Dortmund player Lars Ricken, current Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel and former Formula One driver David Coulthard.

• Augsburg looking forward to its' first and last Bundesliga season? (Deutsche Welle)
• The best place for a soy bratwurst in the Bundesliga. (The Local)
• Some fresh Bundesliga kits to thumb up or down. (DBUK)
• And some 2. Bundesliga kits for good measure. (DBUK)
• The tactics behind Hertha's Bundesliga promotion.

English speaking BVB fans are on cloud nine. Their German speaking counterparts are on cloud seven. But maybe there's a way to bring the two together for the big party on May 14th. Roman Weidenfeller will volunteer as a translator. A 2-0 victory over Nuremberg clinched Dortmund's seventh German championship and the first title after nine years, thanks to Leverkusen doing, what Leverkusen does best.

• Manu vs ManU. (101GreatGoals)
• Slightly outdated but still very much worth reading: Sid Lowe interviews Raul. (Guardian)
• Bundesliga Rewind looks back at one of Eintracht Frankfurt's finest 90 minutes. (Bundesliga Fanatic)
• Looking for the method behind the Bundesliga's managerial madness.

Forbes published its' annual list of the World's Most Valuable Soccer Teams and the top 20 features six Bundesliga clubs:

#4 Bayern Munich
Current Value: $1,048 mil
1-yr Value Change (U.S.): 6%
Revenues: $396 mil
#12 Schalke 04
Current Value: $377 mil
1-yr Value Change (U.

Dortmund need to postpone their lap of honor through the Bundesliga. Manuel Neuer may have made the "next big step" in his career from one Europa League bound club to another. A wild winning spree at the bottom of the table leaves Cologne and St. Pauli as this weekend's biggest losers.

Leverkusen 2-1 Hoffenheim.

It began with coaches, it continues with goalkeepers. The Bundesliga is in quite a reshuffling mood at the moment.

• Manuel Neuer to Bayern. This isn't really a rumor anymore, but rather a foregone conclusion, now that Neuer announced his Schalke exit during a teary eyed press conference.

• St. Pauli has some soul searching to do. (Twohundredpercent)
• Bundesliga Rewind looks back at one of the most famous 1970's clashes between Borussia Mönchengladbach and Bayern Munich. (Bundesliga Fanatic)
• Nobody cares about Rot-Weiss Oberhausen, except for Patrick. (ESPN Soccernet)
• The former #1 of Lower Saxony finally returns to the 2.

Bayern Munich, freshly freed from Louis can Gaal's dictatorship, do a Schalke and put five past a sorry opponent. Leverkusen, being that opponent, suffered a severe case of title race deja-vu. Dortmund seized the opportunity to put one hand on the Bundesliga shield. Elsewhere teams struggled to achieve that one decisive victory to escape all their relegation woes.

This is the new Bayern Munich home kit 11/12 ( 2011/2012) that was unveiled by the Bavarian giants on April 19, 2011. Adidas have introduced a new red & gold home kit for FC Bayern and also announced the extension of their kit deal with the Bavarian giants till 2020. The new Bayern kit consists [...] Related posts:

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• Looking back at a classic Bundesliga match between Bochum and Bayern. (Bundesliga Fanatic)
• Tactical dissection of Dortmund's late comeback against Hamburg. (Zonal Marking)
• Visit Tehran's Saint Petersburg museum to see a golden Oliver Kahn statue.

These days, the "German Model" of developing exciting young players is being celebrated, among others, at this week's soccer trade show Soccerex in Manchester. On a panel titled "One Common Goal – the German Model For Success" German National Team Manager Oliver Bierhoff, Deutsche Fußball Liga CEO Christian Seifert, and Director of Sport at FC Bayern Munich Christian Nerlinger are scheduled to discuss what has led to the turnaround in Germany's soccer youth development schemes.

These days, the "German Model" of developing exciting young players is being celebrated, among others, at this week's soccer trade show Soccerex in Manchester. On a panel titled "One Common Goal – the German Model For Success" German National Team Manager Oliver Bierhoff, Deutsche Fußball Liga CEO Christian Seifert, and Director of Sport at FC Bayern Munich Christian Nerlinger are scheduled to discuss what has led to the turnaround in Germany's soccer youth development schemes.

Time to slowly boot this blog up again starting with some links...

• Prince Poldi turns into Prince Carnival. (Dirty Tackle)
• Marcell Jansen scores a proper Wembley Goal. (101 Great Goals)
• Raphael Honigstein dissects Bayern Munich's wonderful world of lame ducks and uninspired football.

Koln vs Bayern Munich February 5, 2011- Final score:- Koln vs Bayern Munich 3-2 ( Christian Clemens, Milivoje Novakovic*2/ M.Gomez, Hamit Altintop) A stunning second half comeback from Koln sees them upset Bayern Munich 3-2 in the Bundesliga. M.Novakovic was the hero for Koln, netting twice for them in the second half.

As the world in 2011 wonders whether or not to accept the thirteenth Zodiac sign Ophiuchus (also known as Serpentarius), here is a list of famous footballer players who would have Ophiuchus as their Zodiac Sign based on the dates given. New Zodiac Sign- Ophiuchus- November 29- December 17 Famous Football/Soccer Players with Ophiuchus as [.