It is the fiercest rivalry in German football and one of the world’s biggest derbies: Schalke 04 versus Borussia Dortmund. The two will meet Saturday morning at 9:30 a.m. ET at the former’s Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen — a match that will also feature two of America’s most talented players, Weston McKennie (Schalke) and Christian Pulisic (Borussia […]
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With matchday 3 in the books in the UEFA Champions League, we are halfway through the group stage of the world’s premier club competition. Time to take stock on how the three North Americans — Milan Borjan, Christian Pulisic and Weston McKennie — have performed in the competition thus far. Milan Borjan, Crvena zvezda During […]
Weston McKennie has a right adductor injury, forcing him to withdraw from the United States men’s national team ahead of Kickoff Series matches against Colombia and Peru. McKennie, a midfielder for German side Schalke 04 who scored his first goals in the Bundesliga and UEFA Champions League last week, will be replaced by Toronto FC’s […]
United States men’s national team midfielder Weston McKennie continued his sterling start to Schalke 04’s Champions League campaign on Wednesday. The former FC Dallas academy product scored the lone goal in Schalke’s 1-0 victory over Lokomotiv Moscow in the 88th minute to put his side atop Group D. He rose to head a Yevhen Konoplyanka corner […]
The German Bundesliga league will kick off on Friday with the top match between current champions Bayern Munich and title challengers 1899 Hoffenheim. Bayern Munich, in particular, has been in the spotlight in North America. The record-setting Bundesliga champions not only participated in the International Champions Cup in the United States this summer, but the […]