With the end of the 2012-13 season, various 2013-14 kits are being leaked or are officially being released by clubs.  If you have followed this site for a while, you know that we like to keep you updated with some of the teams that feature some Americans.  That all said, a bunch of different Bundesliga teams had some kits come out this weekend.

Mainz (Shawn Parker and Jared Jeffrey) will be wearing these in home games next season.

Jermaine Jones will be collecting yellow cards in away games in this white shirt.

And Fabian Hurzeler will likely be playing with Bayern Munich’s U-23 team in this home kit.

Some of this may be old news, but it is new to me since I have been out of the loop for a while.

A few different clubs are after the services of Mikkel Diskerud.  Mix has also been training with Rosenborg this week.

Chad Barrett nearly scored in his debut with Vålerenga over the weekend.

US U-20 centerback Anthony Brooks made his first team debut with Hertha Berlin last Friday, getting the start in a 2-2 draw to Paderborn as 2. Bundesliga action started up.

Fellow US U-20er Will Packwood will be on Birmingham City’s first team this upcoming season.

Herculez Gomez does what Herculez Gomez does, which is score goals, over the weekend.  Here is the goal.

Staying in Mexico, Adrian Ruelas scored for Veracruz in a Copa Mexico game against Club America over the weekend.

And Yanks Abroad has a couple interviews up on their site.  One with Fabian Hurzeler and another with Sacha Kljestan.

Still playing catch up, but those are a few things that you might have missed over the last few days.  I have an Inside the Numbers piece in the works with regards to a USMNTer likely to make his XXth (don’t want to give it away) cap at a young age against Mexico.

Of course after I post a bunch of links this morning, a bunch of other interesting stuff broke across the interwebs.

Included in that link post from earlier today, Brent Latham thought we didn’t have to worry about losing Fabian Hurzeler to Germany even though he wasn’t called into the U-23/U-20 camp.  Then it comes out this afternoon that he has been called into a camp for Germany’s U-19 team.  Before people get all annoyed that we have “lost him”, remember that he hasn’t filed his FIFA switch yet, so he was still Germany’s “property” to begin with.  Plus, he can always switch further down the line.

Speaking of that U-23/U-20 camp, as expected, Caleb Porter has called in four more MLS players from recently eliminated playoff teams, which include Juan Agudelo, Jack McInerney, Amobi Okugo and Sheanon Williams.

U-20 head coach Tab Ramos recently told Goal.com (Latino version) that the US plans to play a 4-3-3 among all the teams (i.e. MNT, U-23, U-20, etc.).  That said, it all depends on what players you have, so if you don’t have the players for a 4-3-3, you probably won’t see a 4-3-3.

And finally, Brian Sciaretta just tweeted that Celtic goalkeeper Dominic Cervi will be going out on loan to Greenock Morton FC of the Scottish First Division.  Hopefully this loan goes better than his loan last season to First Division side Dundee where he just sat on the bench for a month before returning to Celtic.  Cervi hasn’t appeared in a league game between Celtic or Dundee since making the move to Scotland during the 2008-09 season.

As for Greenock Morton FC, they currently sit in sixth place out of the ten-team First Division.  According to the link from Sciaretta, Cervi is expected to to make an immediate debut against Ayr United tomorrow.

Here are some non-Stuart Holden links for the day.  Still a huge bummer that he is out another six months.

Anyways . . .

Brian Sciaretta caught up with Robbie Findley to talk about his good start to the season at Nottingham Forest.

Also over at Yanks Abroad, Jamie Hill tells us that Fabian Hürzeler has been promoted from Bayern Munich’s U-19 team to their U-23 team that competes in the German Regionalliga.

Greg Seltzer recently did an interview with goalkeeper Josh Wicks.  Wicks was not in the lineup today as IFK Mariehamn lost to KuPS 2-1.  Canadian-American defender Mason Trafford also scored an own goal for the other team.

As for some other scores from today.  Jonathan Borrajo went the full 90 minutes in Ham-Kam’s 2-0 victory over Alta in Norway.  And Brad Rusin came off the bench in HB Køge’s 3-1 victory over Esbjerg in the Danish Cup.

US U-18 midfielder Jose Villarreal will be going out on trial at Belgian club KVC Westerlo next week.

And finally, it looks like Alfredo Morales has decided to play for Peru over the United States.  I will still keep tabs on him on the site until things become more official.

* Quentin Westberg got the start again today for Evian TG in their 2-1 victory over Reims.  With the win, Evian TG are officially promoted to Ligue 1.

* Chris Rolfe went the distance in Aalborg’s 4-3 loss to Silkeborg today, although he did pick up an assist on their second goal and here is a pretty cool photo of Rolfe from the game right here.

* Brian Sciaretta caught up with U-20 midfielder Fabian Hurzeler to talk about his season with Bayern Munich’s U-19 team and his thoughts on the US missing the U-20 World Cup.

* Everyone and their mother is being linked to AS Roma.

* Will Parchman over at No Short Corners makes his guess at the Gold Cup roster and claims that the following players are known already for making the provisional roster according to some inside sources:  Timothy Chandler, Clarence Goodson, Eric Lichaj, Steve Cherundolo, Jonathan Spector, Juan Agudelo, Teal Bunbury.  US Soccer will announce the roster for both the friendly against Spain and the Gold Cup on Monday.

* Ives is hearing that Tottenham are set to sign Brad Friedel (possibly on Monday) and that Brad Guzan is highly unlikely to stay at Aston Villa despite Friedel’s departure.

* Speaking of Twitter/transfer news, Giuseppe Rossi to Barcelona?  The rich get richer.

* Good luck to David Yelldell tomorrow as MSV Duisburg takes on Schalke in the DFB Pokal Final.

Medio Tiempo is reporting that Celtic declined their option to pick up Santos Laguna striker Adrian Ruelas.  Ruelas made the trek from Mexico to Scotland back in September and has been training with the Scottish Premier League squad ever since, but his stay over in Europe has come to an end.

Staying with the US U-20 theme, the US U-20 team played a match against college and other local players from the South Florida area during their current training camp.  According to this report over at Soccer by Ives, the match ended in a 0-0 draw with the US squad having some issues with their finishing.

The guys over at Yanks Abroad got to speak to US U-20 newcomer Fabian Hurzeler during the camp at Ft. Lauderdale this week.  He says one of the biggest reasons for his switch to the US was Thomas Rongen.

“He’s Dutch and he knows how to play soccer,” Hurzeler said of his new coach. “I like his attitude with soccer. It’s a bit like Europe.”

Switching gears to Europe.  Some good news for Chris Rolfe and Aalborg as the team’s website indicates that Rolfe, who has missed basically the last year due to injury, should be good to go once the Danish Superliga resumes in March.

Noah Davis at MLSSoccer.com has a feature on four members of the ongoing U-20 camp in Florida that might be less familiar to American fans. All four play in Europe— one in England, two in Germany, and one in the Czech Republic (Alex Molano, who was a key player on the Milk Cup title team). Others include Fabian Hürzeler, who once captained Germany’s U-17 team before accepting this call-up from Rongen, Cody Cropper, and Bobby Wood.

They are all to varying degrees more examples of Thomas Rongen’s intense recruiting effort of dual-nationality guys (the link is from July and an excellent read if you haven’t read it before).