Bundesliga Team To Take MLS Tour Next Summer?

A German Bundesliga team could embark on a 2008 summer tour of the U.S. that would involve exhibition games against Major League Soccer teams, reports kicker.de, the Web site of Germany's famous soccer publication. (Don't bother clicking on the link if you don't read German). This would be part of the nebulous partnership that MLS and Germany's Deutsche Fußball-Liga (or DFL, the administrative arm of the Bundesliga) signed this March.

Kicker also reports that several Bundesliga teams will be traveling to Asia the week before Christmas to lay the groundwork for further DFL marketing: Borussia Dortmund is heading to Indonesia and Arminia Bielefeld and Energie Cottbus to China (I imagine they'll have their work cut out for them, as neither club is exactly a household name even in Europe). Apparently, the idea behind the December trip is that the DFL will have the continent to themselves--as opposed to the summer months, when everybody and their mother is over there playing exhibition tours. I imagine all eyes in Germany will be on Bayern Munich to see what they do. The Bavarian juggernaut has played games in the U.S. before, including two against the New York franchise now known as the Red Bulls (they lost both games, the first in 2001, the second last summer).