Soccer Week (5 of 8) Games of the Week Scores

Stefan Klessing (pictured) a German national player who scored two goals this week for his team Bayer Leverkusen in the German Bundesliga is one of the items we will cover as we look at the results of the Games of the Week, which were mentioned in Friday's blog entry:


Germany:

Bayern Munich 2 Hannover 0

Bayer Leverkusen 3 Wolfsburg 1

Netherlands:

Ajax Amsterdam 2 Zwolle 1

Twente 2 PSV Eindhoven 2 (tie)

England:

Stoke City 0 Manchester City 0

Sunderland 1 Arsenal 3

USA/Major League Soccer:

Real Salt Lake 0 Seattle Sounders 2

Colorado Rapids 2 FC Dallas 1

Mexico:

Santos Laguna 1 Club America 0

Cruz Azul 0 UANL Tigres 1

Soccer Week (4 of 8): Soccer Players with Very Very Long Lastnames

Who is this player from Georgia, a former Soviet republic, who is the captain of the Turkish team Kayserispor, which plays its home games in the central Turkish city of Kayseri? Well, you will have to find out as we don't want to spell or misspell his name more than once.

Here is the list:

1. Tarik Elyonoussi (Norwegian player or Moroccan heritage who plays for 1899 Hoffenheim in Germany)

2. Manuel Schmiedebach (German player who plays for Hannover '96 in Germany)

3. Angelis Charalambous (Cypriot player who plays for Appolon Limassol in Cyprus)

4. Zurab Khizanishvili (Georgian player who plays for Kayserispor in Turkey; he is the player pictured above...........his name is not actually the longest one we have)

5. Kamo Houhannisyan (Armenian player with Pyunik Yerevan in Armenia)

6. Javid Imamverdiyev (Azeri player with Neftci Baky in Azerbaijan)

7. Sergei Khizhinichenko (Kazak player with Shakhtar Karagandy in Kazakhstan)

8. Dinya Bilyaletdinov (Russian player with Spartak Moscow in Russia)

9. Ruslan Mukametshin (Russian player with Rubin Kazan in Russia)

10. Dzhamaldin Khozhaniyazov (Russian player with Zenit St. Petersburg in Russia)

11. Roman Pavlyuchenko (Russian player with Lokomotiv Moscow in Russia)

http://www.turkish-futbol.com

German Soocer Scores (from weekend from March 15-17)

Turkish national Nuri Sahin (pictured) had a proverbial good day at the office as he helped his team Dortmund score a 5-1 win over the struggling SC Freiburg, thanks in large part to two goals from Sahin.

FC Nuremberg beat an star-filled FC Shalke 04 team 3-0 with goals from three German futbolers Markus Feulner, Alexander Esswein and Mike Frantz.

Meanwhile the league leading Bayern Munich scored a 2-1 win over rival Bayer Leverkusen due to an unexpected late on-goal from Leverkusen.

Bayern Munich has a comfortable 20-point lead over second place Dortmund and a 24-point lead over third place Leverkusen.

This weekend, Match Day 27 in the Bundesliga will see Bayern Munich will face Hamburg SV which fell to FC Augsburg 1-0 in their last match.

Here is a look at the scoreboard:

Dortmund 5 SC Freiburg 1

VL Wolfsburg 1 Fortuna Dusseldorf 1, tie

1899 Hoffenheim 0 FSV Mainz 05 0, tie

FC Nuremberg 3 FC Shalke 0

FC Augsburg 1 Hamburg SV 0

Bayern Munich 2 Bayer Leverkusen 1

SV Wereder Bremen 2 Grewth Fruth 2, tie

VB Stuggart 2 Eintracht Frankfurt 1

Borrusia Monchengladblach 1 Hannover 0

http://www.bundesliga.com/en/

http://www.fcbayern.telekom.de/en

http://www.dw.de