Miroslav Klose News

Coach Joachim Loew has called up four newcomers for Germany's exhibition games against Ecuador and the United States, with the stars of Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund absent because the teams are playing in the Champions League final.

Bayern Munich's signing of Germany star Mario Goetze is set to weaken rivals Borussia Dortmund next season, but the Bavarians have recruited top talent to see off their rivals for years, admits ex-coach Ottmar Hitzfeld.

Goal runs through the best players in the Italian top flight in 2012-13 and picks out the top 11 players over the course of the campaign A season of high drama in Italy has brought its usual doses of pain and pleasure in equal measure.

AC Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri is looking for a potentially job-saving victory against Roma on Sunday, knowing that would be enough to clinch Serie A's final Champions League spot.

As his Bologna players traipsed back into the away dressing room of the Stadio Olimpico, their pride hurting after a humiliating 6-0 defeat to Lazio, the club's heaviest since 1991, coach Stefano Pioli wasn't angry.

And keeping up the poll's distinctly German flavor over the past month, Miroslav Klose - Germany's second-highest scorer - was selected player of the week after scoring five goals in just 40 minutes for Lazio in its 6-0 rout of Bologna in Serie A. "After the 'quad-trick' from Robert Lewandowski came Klose's quintuplet," said Will Tidey, of the ... (more)

Fresh off a second straight drubbing of the once-mighty Barcelona, Bayern Munich was voted the top team in the Associated Press global football poll for the sixth straight week.

The pressure continues to mount on Andrea Stramaccioni as the coach attempts to hold together what looks like a crumbling campaign for Inter, who despite flirting with Champions League qualification at the end of 2012, could very easily miss out on Europe altogether without a win on Wednesday against Lazio.

Evergreen Lazio striker Miroslav Klose has proved his injury worries are behind him by equalling the record for the most goals in a Serie A match as he closes in on Gerd Mueller's 38-year-old record for the most goals for Germany.

It is not every day that a striker bags five goals in one match, let alone that they achieve the feat in just over an hour.

Juventus clinched their second successive Serie A title with a 1-0 win over Palermo on Sunday while Miroslav Klose hit five goals in Lazio's 6-0 demolition of hapless Bologna.

There were emotional scenes at the Reebok Stadium after Bolton's last match of the season as Kevin Davies finally brought his 10-year spell at the club to an end.

Capacity at RFK Stadium is 45,423, but organizers have suggested adding temporary seating behind the goals.

Manchester United and Arsenal transfer target Angelo Ogbonna is emerging as a surprise possibiilty for Pep Guardiola's Bayern Munich plans in the summer.

Lazio are three points off the last Europa League spot for next season after a goalless draw with Parma at the Stadio Ennio Tardini.

In the space of 24 hours Uli Hoeness was involved in a tax avoidance scandal, the transfer coup of the season and a mauling of Barcelona in the Champions League semis.

Bayern Munich's acquisition of the Germany star from Borussia Dortmund proves that Jurgen Klopp's fears of a one-team league were entirely founded COMMENT By Peter Staunton "I find the idea of two or three teams pulling away not good.

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