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Klinsmann Must Show Proper Coaching License, Paperwork, May Miss Bayern Game

BERLIN (AP) – Jurgen Klinsmann's is facing more than his Bundesliga opponents in his return to coaching. He is also facing the German bureaucracy.

Klinsmann needs to show Germany's soccer federation, known as the DFB, a valid coaching license to remain officially recognized as head coach of his new club Hertha Berlin as he prepares for Sunday's game against defending champion Bayern Munich.

Klinsmann continued living in the U.S. after being fired as national team coach in 2016 and said he left the paperwork on the wrong side of the Atlantic.

''It's lying somewhere in my little house in California, in some drawer.