The Red Devils midfielder is taking legal action against a Chinese toymaker which has produced a familiar-looking doll of a German WW2 soldier named Bastian

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It's been a tough couple of weeks for Bastian Schweinsteiger , what with being 'treated like a dog' by Santi Cazorla at the Emirates before being hooked at half-time as Manchester United toiled at CSKA Moscow on Wednesday.And things have taken a turn for the bizarre for the German World Cup hero after he became embroiled in a row with a toymaker over a 'Nazi' doll that's his spitting image!According to reports by German daily Bild, Schweinsteiger is suing the Chinese company over the 'Bastian range' of dolls, that not only share a name with the 31-year-old but also bear an uncanny resemblance to him.www.did.coBild is incensed and its frontpage on Tuesday read: "Our football hero Bastian Schweinsteiger as a Nazi soldier!"The Chinese maker of 'Bastian' described his similarities to the fomer Bayern Munich man as "purely coincidental." It added: "The figure is a member of a Wehrmacht supply unit, a so-called 'kitchen boy'."'Bastian' – the doll, not the player – has a swastika-bearing eagle on his uniform and one of the dolls wears the medal ribbon given to soldiers who took part in the doomed Russian winter offensive in 1941.A Dutch firm, DiD, was contracted to distribute the dolls in Europe for £65 a pop but their plans may be scuppered by Schweinsteiger's lawyers.DiD representative Patrick Chan told Bild: "We offer no figures based on the football. The resemblance is purely coincidental. The figure is based on a typical German. We believe most Germans look like this. Bastian is a common name in Germany."