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07:57 AM ET 05.24 | This weekend's UEFA Champions League final will take place at Wembley Stadium with two German squads -- Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich. While the German clubs will face off in England, they could have the chance to play for the Champions League final in their home country a couple of years from now. It was just a year ago that Bayern competed for the title in Germany. This afternoon it was announced by UEFA that Berlin will host their first-ever Champions League final. The final will be held at Olympiastadion in 2015. German hosted the Champions League final in 2012 at Allianz Arena in Munich, when Chelsea took down Bayern Munich. It was the third time that Munich had hosted a final. Gelsenkirchen was the only other German city to host a final back in 2004.

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09:59 AM ET 05.23 | Tensions will be high on Saturday for UEFA Champions League Final between German clubs Borussia Dortmand and Bayern Munich. Unfortunately for Dortmond, they will be without their star player Mario Gotze for the game. Gotze was injured during the team's semifinal victory over Real Madrid and the team has decided his hamstring isn't ready to go. In an interesting twist to the story, this will be the final game that Gotze suits up for Die Schwarzgelben. He previously announced that he would be switching sides to Bayern Munich at the end of the season.

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05:01 PM ET 05.20 | The rumors and speculation have been swirling all season that this could be Jose Mourinho's last at the Bernabeu. And now Real Madrid has formally announced that Jose Mourinho will not be back next season. "We've decided to bring our relationship to an end," said Real Madrid President Florentino Perez. "Nobody's been sacked, it's a mutual agreement." Real Madrid has fallen short of winning a trophy this year. They are 13 points behind Barcelona in La Liga, lost to their cross town rivals Atletico in the Copa Del Rey, and fell to Borussia Dortmund just short of the Champions League final.

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11:33 AM ET 05.19 | David Beckham's representatives have held talks with Major League Soccer over the former England captain purchasing a new club in the US. The Paris St-Germain player, 38, announced on Thursday that he is to retire at the end of the season. When Beckham joined Los Angeles Galaxy in 2007 his contract included an option to purchase an "expansion franchise". In 2009 Beckham said: "I have the right to own a franchise, which I will action immediately after I stop playing."

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10:04 AM ET 05.11 | Landon Donovan loves him some David Moyes. And vice versa, based on everything the world's new "it" manager has always said. Donovan also loves him some English soccer; the game is part of the landscape there, like the Thames or the famous gardens of Cotswolds. Finally, the U.S. national team's all-time leading scorer is out of contract with the LA Galaxy at the end of 2013, which means he's free to go wherever he likes. He could play for the Pittsburgh Riverhounds if he liked; they do have a swell stadium after all. So a few members of the chattering class made the leap on this seemingly non-tricky math: [Donovan + Moyes' arrival at Old Trafford + big transfer expense account] mutual respect = Donovan in a kit of mighty Manchester United. Donovan cleverly deflected questions along those lines, parrying the queries as skillfully as Galaxy teammate Carlo Cudicini has parried anything away from Home Depot Center goal this year, goofing on his recent pair of PK misses at the same time.

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