Ballack is Projected in MLS

On termination on June 30 with Bayer Leverkusen, Michael Ballack had never hidden his desire not to extend its lease for a new challenge. Hoped the side of the MLS, the German midfielder has confirmed he will most likely evolve in the land of Uncle Sam in the coming weeks, alongside Thierry Henry and David Beckham.

Across the Rhine, Michael Ballack is a superstar, just like Thierry Henry in France or David Beckham in England. And indeed, the midfielder seems to Bayer Leverkusen to join the party attacking the New York Red Bulls or the Los Angeles Galaxy star of the country of Uncle Sam, to defend the colors of a franchise of Major League Soccer.

"I will not stop the football because I still have the fire that burns in me, explained the main interest of the ZDF. I can not say anything officially yet, but my transfer to an MLS team is well advanced". At lease end at Bayer Leverkusen on June 30, the native of Chemnitz seems ready to offer a new experience abroad, he who had played for Chelsea between 2006 and 2010 before returning to the Bundesliga.

Instead Henry or Beckham?

At 35, the famous No. 8 is preparing for an early retirement in peace, away from the hustle and bustle around the football stars on the Old Continent. However, even impossible to know which team is destined to the German. For several months, the interest of the New York Red Bulls and Los Angeles Galaxy is real, but it is too early to know the next destination for Ballack.

Side of the Big Apple, there is already the world in the midfield with players like the Finn, Teemu Tainio and the Mexican past by FC Barcelona, ​​Rafael Marquez. And therefore high salaries offered in addition to emoluments including Thierry Henry. But in MLS, the law of salary-cap reigns and it is not certain that the Red Bulls currently have the financial means to convince the German veteran. Los Angeles can do better? Robbie Keane, Omar Gonzalez, Landon Donovan and Edson Buddle also saddled the finances of Californians over the "Spice Boy".

However, both teams seem to want to recruit Michael Ballack and therefore prepared to make financial sacrifices to pay even if some stiff fines if the salary-cap would be exceeded. The sporting challenge then could make a difference in the eyes of four-time winner of the Bundesliga with Kaiserslautern and Bayern Munich? As it stands, both teams were successful mixed early in the year 2012, NY is coming out but a bit better than the defending champions.

Anyway, whatever the final destination of Michael Ballack is the MLS as a whole that is rubbing his hands at the prospect of succeeding in convincing a new football star coming change on the ground U.S.. Before Clarence Seedorf, Alessandro Del Piero Raul yet?