VfB Stuttgart — Best pictures!

Two of this season’s big disappointments, so far, in the Bundesliga, Stuttgart and Bayern Munich, will take on each other on Saturday with a chance for Germany international Bastian Schweinsteiger (pictured left) to consolidate his newly acquired position

The russian national team lost again in the matchup against the Germany one, what doesn't surprise anyone: for the last three encounters, russians only could achieve one draw.

Two Chelsea teammates, Michael Ballack (pictured right) and Yuri Zhirkov, will cross swords as Germany and Russia battle each other for a World Cup 2010 berth next Saturday.

Germany manager Joachim Low, after all, decided to leave behind the leader in the FTBL ranking of German strikers, Leverkusen’s Stefan Kiessling. Is it because the youngster has never played for the national team and Low is loath to experiment in such

Peruvian striker Claudio Pizarro yesterday grabbed the opener in Werder Bremen’s 2:0 away win over VfB Stuttgart to vault past Sevilla’s Brazil star Luis Fabiano and capture the lead in the FTBL ranking of South American strikers with a tally of 166.37