Germany's Federation has announced that Jermaine Jones will have to serve an eight week suspension for a yellow card offense during Schalke 04's 3-1 loss to Borussia Moenchengladbach on December 21st last year. Jones stepped on Marco Reus's foot, with the German Federation judging the foul intentional.

Jermaine Jones may have issued an apology for his stomp on Marco Reus' injured foot, but the German Football Federation (DFB) is having no remorse on the U.S. international.

The DFB has handed Jones an eight-week ban for his actions in Schalke 04's 3-1 loss to Borussia Moenchengladbach in the German Cup Round of 16.

With the Seattle Sounders beginning their playoff run in the final season of U.S. goalkeeping legend Kasey Keller, we decided to take a look back at one of the most interesting video features we have done in the past with Kasey - a visit to his castle. And not a proverbial 'castle' - it's a castle.
Prior to the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Keller played for Borussia Moenchengladbach in the German Bundesliga.

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By FRANCO PANIZO

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Michael Bradley isn't a fan of missing games, but that's exactly what he had to do in September in order to sort a future that he is currently enjoying.

Having been called into every U.

Timmy Chandler and Nurnberg had their hands full with on-fire Borussia Moenchengladbach, and Edson Buddle played the second half in a losing effort to Matt Taylor and Paderborn in the 2. Bundesliga.

United States National Team midfielder Michael Bradley completed a move from Borussia Moenchengladbach to Serie A club Chievo Verona on Tuesday. Bradley spent the second half of last season on loan to Aston Villa with the expectation that he would move to the club permanently. When that didn't work out, 'Gladbach had already set their squad for this season.

American midfielder Michael Bradley appears on his way to Italy, with the Serie A meddlers Chievo having been successful with a $2.5 million transfer bid from Borussia Moenchengladbach.

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Michael Bradley was left off the U.S. mens' national team roster for the upcoming friendlies so as to allow him to find a resolution for his club situation. Bradley appears to have found that resolution, and it will take him to Italy.

The U.S. women's national team is a game away from reaching the final of the Women's World Cup for the first time since winning it all in 1999.

After their breathtaking, come-from-behind victory over Brazil in the quarterfinals, the U.S. women face France in a semifinal match in Moenchengladbach, Germany (12 p.

As ever, all too many politically correct, don't-muss-up-the-carpet type of tip-toeing through the wonderful landmine fields that are pressers and interviews. Fortunately it's the summer, when egos can swell and transfer moves can be made with the slight utterance of a few words.

Fernando Gago and Thomas Muller know of what we speak.

United States National Team midfielder Michael Bradley will not be completing a permanent move to Aston Villa. Though a deal had been arranged to make Bradley's loan deal to the club permanent, the managerial change at Villa derailed the move. Bradley remains the property of Borussia Moenchengladbach in the Bundesliga, where the club remained in the top flight after winning a relegation playoff.

Michael Bradley's time with Aston Villa is over.

According to Bradley's agent, New York-based representative Ron Waxman, Bradley will not be returning to Aston Villa next season.

He spent a half season on loan with Villa, but played sparingly in a crowded central midfield under former Villa manager Gerard Houlier.

A few players will be in different locker rooms for the first time tonight as they shed their club jerseys and put on the crest of their countries.
Juan Agudelo and Tim Ream are teammates with Canada attacker Dwayne de Rosario at New York Red Bulls, while Michael Bradley and Rob Friend have been together at Borussia Moenchengladbach.

Before this weekend's action, the MNT Blog cited three sets of games to keep an eye on involving U.S. internationals. Here's how they fared, and what it now means:
OGUCHI ONYEWU - DUTCH EREDVISIE
May 1 results
Twente 4, Willem II 0
Heerenveen 1, Ajax 2
With the home victory, Twente remains in the driver's seat to collect their second consecutive league title.

LEVERKUSEN, Germany — Bayer Leverkusen went second in the Bundesliga table on Sunday with a 4-2 win at home to strugglers VfB Stuttgart that dropped their guests further into the relegation battle. With bottom side Moenchengladbach beating Schalke on Sunday evening, only five points now separate the bottom five clubs and Stuttgart, the 2007 German [.

It's easy to be distracted by some of the soap opera-like goings-on we see in professional soccer; every year (week, day?), there's plenty of gossip and bad behavior on and off the field. Some of it is even entertaining and interesting. But it's easy to lose track of some of the fundamentals of the game when we pay too much attention to that sort of stuff.

BERLIN, Germany — Bundesliga bottom side Borussia Moenchengladbach sacked their coach Michael Frontzeck on Sunday, 24 hours after their 3-1 German league defeat at St Pauli. 'Gladbach are seven points from safety at the foot of the table and 46-year-old Frontzeck, who has been in charge for 18 months, was shown the door after his [.

United States midfielder Michael Bradley has joined Premier League club Aston Villa on loan from Borussia Moenchengladbach with an option to make the move permanent in the summer.

"I am really excited to be joining Villa," Bradley said on the Villa web site. "I am proud and thrilled and can't wait to get going now.

United States midfielder Michael Bradley has joined Premier League club Aston Villa on loan from Borussia Moenchengladbach with an option to make the move permanent in the summer.

"I am really excited to be joining Villa," Bradley said on the Villa web site. "I am proud and thrilled and can't wait to get going now.

Aston Villa have signed U.S midfielder Michael Bradley from Borussia Moenchengladbach on loan till the end of the season. He's currently under going a Medical which he's expected to sail through.

STUTTGART, Germany — Johannes Flum's first-half goal earned Freiburg a 1-0 win at Stuttgart in the Bundesliga on Sunday, ending the home side's unbeaten start to 2011. Flum scored in the 24th minute, when he latched onto a through ball from Maximilian Nicu to shoot with his right foot under Sven Ulreich.

With just a few more days left before the Red Bulls jet off to Mexico to begin preseason training, the seemingly endless Luke Rodgers transfer saga finally came to its conclusion this morning. The former Notts County striker, who has spent his career bouncing around England's second and third divisions, officially joined the squad at training today for the first time.

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Michael Bradley appears to have played his last game for Borussia Moenchengladbach, with a transfer expected to be completed before the close of the current transfer window.

Bradley has been linked with a handful of clubs in recent weeks, and Moenchengladbach's signing of Michael Fink on Thursday set the wheels in motion for a winter transfer for the 23-year-old Americans.

- Jason Davis
Word out of Germany this morning is that Borussia Moenchengladbach has accepted a bid for Michael Bradley (link in German).
It's not yet known where the midfielder is headed; the club simply indicated that Bradley will leave in a press conference ahead of their weekend match with Eintracht Frankfurt, and that his new club will announce the signing.

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After being a regular starter for Borussia Moenchengldbach for the better part of two and a half seasons, U.S. national team midfielder Michael Bradley days with the relegation-threatened German club appear numbered.

Bradley has come off the bench in Moenchengladbach's past two matches, with rumors swirling about clubs interested in his services.

Ives Galarcep reports that U.S. midfielder Michael Bradley could be headed to the English Premier League, whose sixth-place Sunderland is lining up an offer to his German club, Borussia Moenchengladbach.
Bradley is seen as a possible replacement for captain Lee Cattermole, who has been battling a back injury.

Which teams are the worst (and best) defensive teams in the big leagues of European soccer? Let's take a look at defensive performance so far this year - since it's roughly the halfway mark everywhere, these numbers should be more or less comparable across teams and leagues (assuming that the leagues are similar in important ways, which we know to be sorta true from previous analyses I've posted here .