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.

A few guys scored goals today, but I can’t find any highlights as of right now.  Chad Barrett had a good game, getting involved in two of the goals.  As for the goal scorers, Charles Kazlauskas scored a goal in Helmond Sport’s season-opening 2-1 victory over Telstar.  And Jann George (Nurnberg II) and Andrew Wooten (Kaiserslautern II) each scored in their respective Regionalliga games.

Also while looking through the box scores from today, I noticed that Quentin Westberg is no longer with Evian TG.  He got the start at goalkeeper for US Luzenac in their 1-0 loss to Boulogne in the French National (third division) today.

Geoff Cameron made his debut for Stoke City in a friendly against Gruether Furth.  Cameron started the game in the midfield, but played the last 30 minutes or so at centerback.  Here are some highlights of the game.

It looks like Cal FC’s Danny Barrera is on trial at the moment with Derby County.  While Anton Peterlin is on trial at Oxford United.

Former Cal Golden Bear Jacob Wilson has signed with CD Feirense in the Portuguese Liga de Honra (second division).

Jurgen Klinsmann will announce his USMNT roster for the upcoming Mexico friendly via ussoccer.com on Sunday at 4 PM Eastern.  Mexico announced its roster earlier today.

Brian McBride and Wembley FC will be playing in the FA Cup tomorrow against Langford FC.

UEFA held its draw for the playoff rounds of Champions League and Europa League earlier today.  Here is a breakdown of all the teams with Americans on them.

I haven’t done new jerseys/kits in a while, so here are a bunch more.

* Bolton Wanderers Third Kit (Tim Ream/Stuart Holden)
* Hoffenheim Away and Third Kit (Danny Williams/Fabian Johnson/Joe Gyau)
* Hannover 96 Away Kit (Steve Cherundolo)
* Roma Third Kit (Michael Bradley)
* Nurnberg Away Kit (Timothy Chandler/Jann George)
* Mainz Away Kit (Jared Jeffrey)

I am still catching up on life (and I really should be in bed right now), but here are some various links of random things from the last couple days.

Congrats to Clint Dempsey for scoring his 50th Premier League goal of his career this past weekend.  As I posted a month ago when he was sitting on 49, only seven active Premier League midfielders have scored 50+ goals in their career, so Dempsey is #8 (with only Tim Cahill doing it in fewer games).

Congrats to Sacha Kljestan and Anderlecht for winning the Belgian Pro League title.

Two Americans clinched promotion this weekend.  Tony Taylor and Estoril locked up the Portuguese Liga de Honra title and will be playing in Primeira Liga next season.  And in Germany, Royal-Dominique Fennell and Stuttgart Kickers will be playing in the 3.Liga next season after winning the Regionaliga Sud division title.

Carlisle United have offered Frank Simek a new deal with the club.  Speaking of Mr. Simek, here is a teaser photo from my Manchester trip.

Dover Athletic have released Jemal Johnson.

Babajide Ogunbiyi returned to Viborg FF’s lineup this weekend and played 90 minutes in a 3-1 win over Brønshøj.

Keeping up on the leaked/released kits for next season, here are a few more from the last couple of days.

* AZ Alkmaar (Jozy Altidore) home shirt.  Also, this photo of Jozy is awesome.
* Hannover 96 (Steve Cherundolo) home shirt.
* Celtic (Dominic Cervi) away shirt.
* Mainz (Jared Jeffrey) home shirt.

I need some sleep.

The only change from the originally announced preliminary roster is Sheanon Williams of Philadelphia Union replacing Josh Gatt, who was recalled by Molde.

GOALKEEPERS (2): Bill Hamid (D.C. United), Sean Johnson (Chicago Fire)
DEFENDERS (6): Perry Kitchen (D.C. United), Ike Opara (San Jose Earthquakes), Kofi Sarkodie (Houston Dynamo), Zarek Valentin (Montreal Impact), Jorge Villafaña (Chivas USA), Sheanon Williams (Philadelphia Union)
MIDFIELDERS (6): Fred Adu [captain] (Philadelphia Union), Joe Corona (Tijuana), Mix Diskerud (Gent), Jared Jeffrey (Mainz), Amobi Okugo (Philadelphia Union), Michael Stephens (Los Angeles Galaxy)
FORWARDS (6): Juan Agudelo (New York Red Bulls), Terrence Boyd (Borussia Dortmund), Teal Bunbury (Sporting Kansas City), Joe Gyau (Hoffenheim), Brek Shea (FC Dallas), Tony Taylor (Estoril Praia)

Wanted to get these in before the weekend (and tonight’s baseball game).

Bill Hamid is headed to England to train with West Bromwich Albion.  Some of you might remember Jurgen Klinsmann saying that he wants players in MLS to be playing more year round since the competition is not as tough as in Europe and training stints like this might be one way to fill the void.

Charles Kazlauskas scored his fifth goal of the season in Helmond Sport’s 3-0 victory over Telstar today.  You can check out highlights here (1:15 mark).  It also looks like he set up the first goal of the game.

I mentioned yesterday how Matt Pyzdrowski and Angelholms FF defeated Syrianska FC in the first leg of the Allsvenskan promotion playoffs.  You can find highlights from that match here.

According to Stuttgarter Kickers’ website, German-American fullback Royal-Dominique Fennell has been called into the US’ U-23 camp next month.  And Brian Sciaretta told me on twitter that he is hearing that Terrence Boyd, Jared Jeffrey and Cody Cropper have also been called into the U-23/U-20 camp.

And finally, 30-year-old goalkeeper Kellan Wilson is headed back to the US after playing with Finnish side HIFK this past season.

Today was a busy one.  It is always “fun” to finally eat dinner at 9 PM.  Anyways, on to some news. . .

Lost in the shuffle while everyone was trying to figure out if Clint Dempsey really has back spasms or not, Steve Cherundolo will be joining Dempsey as another player who will miss the Costa Rica friendly and head straight to Belgium.  I have also seen some online chatter that Jozy Altidore’s manager at AZ was not happy with him flying 11 hours for the first friendly only to fly back to Belgium for another a couple days later.

US Soccer put up some photos on Facebook of the first training session right here.  A couple of Fabian Johnson, who is in California for training, but can’t play in either game since his one-time switch paperwork hasn’t been finished with FIFA yet.

Adam Serrano has an article up on MLSsoccer.com with Klinsmann’s plan for the offseason for those MLS players in the USMNT player pool.

For those wondering why Eric Lichaj was not called into camp, he has a hip injury that could keep him out for a while.

Michael Bradley’s move to Chievo Verona has become official.  Eric Giardini of The Shin Guardian has some more words on the move right here.

Remember the rumors that French side Auxerre were interested in Maurice Edu?  That potential deal is dead.

Fernando Clavijo of Traffic Sports tweeted earlier today that Tony Taylor has been loaned out to Atletico CP, while Gale Agbossoumonde has been loaded out to Eintracht Frankfurt.

Greg Seltzer is hearing that Villyan Bijev will now be going out on loan to Fortuna Düsseldorf despite hanging out at Genk for the past couple weeks and appearing in a couple friendlies/reserve squad matches.

Good news/bad news for Stuart Holden today.  Good news:  he played 78 minutes in a reserve squad match today.  Bad news:  Fulham’s reserves won 7-0.  The bad news is really not that bad.  Good to see him on the field again.

As for a brief OT Report for today.  Andrew Wooten went 90 minutes in Kaiserslautern II’s 2-2 draw to Köln II.  Terrence Boyd scored three goals in Borussia Dortmund II’s 7-1 victory over Wiedenbrück.  Jared Jeffrey went 85 minutes in Mainz II’s 3-0 victory over Bayer Leverkusen II.  And Brad Rusin went 90 minutes in HB Køge’s 2-0 victory over HIK in the Danish Cup.

Lets start off the links with some injury updates.

While it looked like Jozy Altidore was pulled from Saturday’s game with an ankle injury, the club is saying that Jozy was sick and worn out, but the team’s spokesperson thinks Jozy should be good to go for Bursaspor’s next game.

German club Mainz 05 has two Americans on their roster, Preston Zimmerman and Jared Jeffrey, but I haven’t seen Jeffrey’s name in the game recaps for the reserve squad the last couple months and now we know why.  The club was finally able to figure out what is wrong with him and he is set to have a hernia operation this week.  Looks like he will return sometime around mid-April if all goes well.

The New York Times has two things worth checking out.  First off is an article on Jonathan Spector.  And John Godfrey looks at the midfield depth for the USMNT.

The US U-17 team takes on El Salvador tomorrow in the quarterfinals of the CONCACAF U-17 Championship.  The game will be at 3 PM Eastern and you can watch live on ESPN3.com.  The winner of this match earns a spot in the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup.  US Soccer has an official game preview up on their site, plus the U-17 blog has some other goodies and videos to check out.

Former St Patrick’s Athletic winger Ryan Guy apparently picked up an injury during his trial with the Portland Timbers, but he is healthy again and will now be trialing with Chivas USA.

And finally, some bad news for Anton Peterlin and Plymouth Argyle fans.  The English League One side were in 18th place and two points above the relegation zone after this weekend, but the club’s owners have filed for bankruptcy protection.  What does this mean?  League rules state that the club will be deducted 10 points, dropping them to last place and five points below Dagenham & Redbridge (the team that was in last place).  Fighting off relegation just became a lot harder.

A bunch of little updates on a few of the younger Americans overseas.

Brian Sciaretta over at Yanks Abroad talks to Adrian Reulas about his time in Scotland so far.  While there has been some confusion on his deal with Celtic, it looks like he is going to train with the first team until January then Celtic/Santos Laguna will decide his future (transfer?  loan deal?  head back to Mexico?).

While he talks about adapting to the increased level of speed and play in Scotland, he also shoots down some rumors about him switching to Mexico over the US.

“I am not expecting them to call me,” he continued. “All this has been going on but I have felt really comfortable with the US. They treat me really well and my head is just on making the team for Colombia. I think I’ve done well and [Coach Rongen] likes me. I am really looking forward to the upcoming camps.”

While Ruelas said that he is not expecting to hear from Mexico, he also said that he would not change even if they did contact him.

“You’d have to think about it but yes, I would say that I will stick with US,” Ruelas added. “The last three camps have been really positive. I’ve really liked it and I would have to say I will stay with the US.”

It looks like Ruelas will re-join the US U-20 team at an upcoming camp in December.

As for a former US U-20 player, Jared Jeffrey is currently hurt with a hip injury.  Jeffrey has trained a lot with Mainz’s first team, but has appeared in five games for the reserve team, Mainz II, in the fourth tier of the German soccer system (Regionalliga).  He played in 14 games last season for Mainz II, scoring one goal.

Jeffrey last played on October 1 in a 3-2 loss to Borussia Dortmund II, but is expected to return to training in the near future.

And a 2-for-1 in this article.  It is a game recap from a recent reserve match between Derby County and Sheffield Wednesday where American Conor Doyle scored for Derby.  While reading through it, I also noticed that Euan Holden is now on trial at Derby County.

Defender Mitch Hanson, on the way back from a serious knee injury, came in for triallist Euan Holden, while winger David Martin was replaced by second year Academy scholar Aaron Cole.

Euan was last seen on trial at Crewe Alexandra in September.

Another name I didn’t see this weekend while doing The OT Report was Jozy Altidore.  I thought maybe the new manager was trying to shake things up in his first game at Hull City, but it turns out that Jozy is another American who caught the recent hamstring bug.

Two journalists had Clint Dempsey articles today.  One in the New York Times.  And one in the Observer (UK).  Apparently people took notice of his monster goal against Juventus last week.  It still gives me chills when I watch it.

Yanks Abroad continues its great coverage of the various Scandinavian leagues with an article on IK Start’s Hunter Freeman.  Freeman has formed a nice defensive partnership with fellow American Clarence Goodson.

And another US U-20 making an appearance on the bench this past weekend.  Much like Gale Abossoumonde a couple weeks ago with Sporting Braga, Jared Jeffrey appeared on the bench for the first time with German side Mainz.