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[REF WATCH] Robert Hoyzer, the key figure in Germany’s 2004 game-fixing scandal, must pay the German soccer federation $1,086 per month for 15 years as compensation for damages the DFB incurred.

[REF WATCH] Two weeks after FIFA scrapped further experimentation with goal-line technology — President Sepp Blatter claiming it couldn’t find an accurate method of checking whether a ball crosses the goal line — Eintracht Frankfurt beat Energie Cottbus with a goal that TV replays appeared to show shouldn’t have been awarded.

[OFF THE POST] VfB Stuttgart’s German national team striker Mario Gomez was fined $12,000 for comments he made in a postgame interview about Karlsruhe defender Maik Franz, who hounded him during Stuttgart’s 3-1 win last weekend.

[AMERICANS ABROAD] Florida product Bryan Arguez became the youngest U.S. product to play in the German First Division when the 19-year-old entered Hertha Berlin’s game against Eintracht Frankfurt as a 63rd minute sub. Arguez spent last season at D.C. United but did not see action. He was an unused member of the USA’s 2007 U-20 World Cup team.

[OFF THE POST] German lower division club KFC Uerdingen, trying to raise money to avoid looming bankruptcy, is auctioning off a chance to coach the team for a day. The highest eBay bidder will get to run the team for a 24-hour period that will include a friendly against Rot Weiss Oberhausen. The ad reads: “Whether you’re an old school drill sergeant, an introverted tactical fox, an emotional motivator or a completely different kind of coach is entirely up to you.”

[AMERICANS IN GERMANY] U.S. U-20 and U-17 international forward Preston Zimmerman, 19, has signed a pro contract with German First Division club Hamburg SV after scoring nine goals in 32 games for the reserve team. Gregg Berhalter, 34, extended his contract with Second Division 1860 Munich through June 2009.

[AMERICANS IN GERMANY] Hannover 96, with right back Steve Cherundolo making his 16th appearance of the season, fell one spot to seventh place with a 5-1 loss to second-to-last place Energie Cottbus. In the Second Division, 1860 Munich revived its promotion hopes with a 5-0 win over Erzgebirge Aue in which defender Gregg Berhalter scored from the penalty spot.

[AMERICANS IN GERMANY] Hannover 96, with Steve Cherundolo in his usual right back position, downed second-place Werder Bremen, 4-3. Heath Pearce started in midfield for Hansa Rostock, which fell, 3-0, to on-fire Bayer Leverkusen. It was Pearce’s fifth straight start after sitting out six games.

[AMERICANS IN GERMANY]. Right back Steve Cherundolo made his 15th start of the season for Hannover 96 as it won, 3-0, at Hansa Rostock, for which Heath Pearce came on at halftime for his eighth appearance of the season.

[AMERICANS IN EUROPE] Steve Cherundolo and Hannover 96 played a scoreless tie at Eintracht Frankfurt to remain in sixth place. In the Second Division, Californian Steve Purdy, a regular on its reserve team, made his first appearance on the bench for 1860 Munich’s first team and stayed there as Gregg Berhalter (90 minutes) and Josh Wolff (45) helped it to a 3-0 win against Kickers Offenbach that keeps 1860 in the promotion zone. Standard Liege remains in first place of the Belgian league after a 2-2 tie with Mechelen in which Standard’s Oguchi Onyewu went the full 90 as usual.

[AMERICANS IN GERMANY] All four goals came within 13 minutes as Steve Cherundolo and Hannover 96 tied, 2-2, with VfL Wolfsburg. Hannover remains in sixth place. In the Second Division, former U.S. U-17 international Neven Subotic, 18, scored his first pro goal in Mainz’s 3-1 win over Wehen Wiesbaden.

[AMERICANS IN GERMANY] Right back Steve Cherundolo set up Hannover 96’s second goal in a 2-0 win over defending Bundesliga champion VfB Stuttgart. Szabolcs Huszti, who also scored Hannover’s first, headed home Cherundolo’s pinpoint cross as Hannover held on to sixth place.