[USA MEN] It was a bad news day on the national team front out of Germany. Former U.S. national team defender TonySanneh tweeted that German national team coach Joachim Loew was going to FC Nuremberg — Sanneh’sformer club — to meet with U.S. national team right back Timmy Chandler and the “rumor” was that Chandler was going to play for Germany. Andout of Hoffenheim came the news that another promising German-American, Fabian Johnson, was sidelined with a herniated disk in the neck.

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