Harry Kane in his first season at Bayern Munich closing in on 2nd in Bundesliga and reaching CL semi’s

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Harry Kane (30) made his move from Spurs to Bayern Munich last summer, to find new inspiration. Often by media described as a desperate act to be in a team that wins silverware, especially on the home arena, but he still has to wait on his first major trophy.

Bayern Munich face Wolfsburg at home today to try to grab that 2nd spot, being 3rd at this moment, behind winner Bayer Leverkusen and Stuttgart, passing Bayern yesterday after their final game, winning 1-0 away to Augburg. A draw will be enough for Harry Kane and his Bayern to get back in 2nd spot.

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MLS in it’s 29th season as stars made it happen from Harut Karapetyan and David Beckham to Lionel Messi

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MLS is in it’s 29th season, started up in 1996. Looking back you find a number interesting aspects to look at as the heritage from NASL were very much seen. Bob Houghton, Ron Newman, Eddie Firmani, Timo Liekoski, Laurie Calloway and Thomas Rongen all having long associations with the famous past of NASL.

12 years after that last NASL season in 1984, it was time for new clubs to recruit new managers and players and get this professional soccer adventure going. MLS in it’s first years were similar to NASL in their’s. No one really noticed the professional game of soccer in US, before Pelè arrived, though it had their imports, clubs and stars long before the Brazilian maestro made it blossom.

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Pep Guardiola and his coaching staff recruitment policies as Man City looks for changes upstairs

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One of the keys to become a long servant manager could be to find a good rotation among your assistants as you take on different impulse from different people.

One you have seen close to Pep this season is Juanma Lillo. He took charge of the team when Pep had his back operation earlier in the season. Lillo, 57, first moved to the Etihad Stadium in summer 2020, replacing Mikel Arteta as Guardiola’s assistant after guiding Qingdao Huanghai to promotion to the top-tier Chinese Super League. He left before City’s treble-winning campaign last season to take up a head coach role with Al‑Sadd in Qatar but came back to City this month.

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