German tabloid mocks Jürgen Klinsmann ahead of USA-Germany

So much for solidarity. With the United States and Germany each needing just a point to advance out of Group G and into the knockout stages, one German tabloid

So much for solidarity.

With the United States and Germany each needing just a point to advance out of Group G and into the knockout stages, one German tabloid wanted to make something very clear to U.S. men’s national team head coach and native son Jürgen Klinsmann: It’s not going to be easy.

Bild newspaper’s Thursday edition depicts a black-eyed cartoon Klinsmann with the phrase, “Klinsi, today you see stars.”

. @Bild with a, ahem, punchy headline ahead of #GER v #USA. "You will see stars" (via @ThomasHennecke) pic.twitter.com/F4AghZ5vIM

— Raphael Honigstein💙 (@honigstein) June 25, 2014

This will be the second time that Klinsmann has faced Germany as manager of the USMNT, but the first in a competitive setting. In June, 2013, the U.S. defeated Germany 4-3 in Washington, D.C. as part of a celebration for the 100th anniversary of U.S. soccer.

Klinsmann, who scored 47 times for West Germany and Germany from 1987-1998, managed the German national team from 2004-2006 and led them to a third-place finish in the 2006 World Cup in his home country.

You’d think the Germans would give their former poster boy a little more leeway, but when it comes to supporting Die Mannschaft, all bets are off.

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