I assume Magath is trying to send a message and that Jones, and the two other players will be back with the first team in fairly short order. And that he's desperate.
Technically, yes. His father was a US Army soldier from PR. But he was estranged from him for most of his life and grew up in Germany with his German mother. Actually, I didn't think of it before, but his and Jones' situations are incredibly similar.
yes you're right, though Magath and Jones are from different generations they share more or less the same story by the way, there was another guy, a black guy, that was with Magath on the same Hamburg squad long timeago, also a american-german guy but I forgot his name
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64sHg_kmWAs"]Jimmy Hartwig[/ame] Hartwig and Magath; the midfield core of a CL winner. Different caliber from Jones. Just like Jones, he also got only very few caps. He had very tough competition in his days in central midfield; Matthäus, Stielike, Schuster, Bonhof, Magath, Hansi Müller, Briegel,...
Nochmals danke schoen, I remember that Hamburg had a killer Mannschaft during the early 80's with also Kaltz, Hrubesch, Rollf, Hieronymus etc...
He's known as "Qualix" Magath for a reason, as highlighted below. http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=825341&sec=europe&root=europe&cc=5901