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Posted by: dhalsim007 1 year, 9 months agoInternational soccer superstar David Beckham is coming to America to play for a U.S. Major League Soccer team. The U.K.-born Beckham, 31, will sign with the Los Angeles Galaxy. But is he bringing Victoria (Posh Spice) to the States too?
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TomBiro
Jan. 11, 2007, 10:40 a.m.MSNBC TV is reporting that David Beckham has signed a five-year deal with the LA Galaxy. Here's the Reuters report.
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Deidre
Jan. 11, 2007, 11:24 a.m.Suddenly I have an urgent need to know more about the game of soccer...
I thinks Mrs. Becks (aka Posh) is going to love living in LA let's just hope she doesn't decide to resurrect the singing career.
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Mintyfunk
Jan. 11, 2007, 2:54 p.m.I'm curious to see if anyone thinks that this is anything other than Becks trying to cash out big, since his career in Europe is pretty much over. I like him as a personality, but it seems like he got booted to the minors, but with a pay hike.
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supabro15
Jan. 11, 2007, 7 p.m.yes actually....its the greatest sport known to man...and the most popular one in the world. i fancy it myself :D
but yea, im just wondering why they didnt pay ronaldino, or cristiano ronaldo this much cash to come over....i guess beckam is a player who is known wholly by the U.S. as being great at soccer though.
...they are definitely trying to boost interest in soccer in the states, and i think thats great...i just bought a pretty good soccer ball though :D
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beachboy6000
Jan. 11, 2007, 3:34 p.m.A five year deal for $250 million????? $50 million a YEAR? This for someone who was booted off his national team because he is too old to play? Are they MAD? This must make him the highest paid athlete in US history by a large margin.
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ybdogsct
Jan. 11, 2007, 10:15 p.m."This for someone who was booted off his national team because he is too old to play?"
Isn't Beckham only 31 years old?
"This must make him the highest paid athlete in US history by a large margin."
According to Forbes, this deal would make Beckham the 3rd highest paid athlete behind Tiger Woods ($80.3 million/year) and Michael Shumacher ($80 million/year).
http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2004/0705/093tab
Beckham may not be the fastest, strongest, or hardest shooting player, but he is well-respected for his ball-handling and leadership skills on the field. Why else would Beckham (like Ronaldinho for the Selecao) kick all the free kicks for England's World Cup team?
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harriermech
Jan. 11, 2007, 4:21 p.m.who cares about soccer, America only has room for one game called football and soccer is not it. Keep oversea where it belongs.
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awongscreen
Jan. 11, 2007, 10:40 p.m.The whole world cares about soccer. Soccer is the offical game of football.
The american football you mentioned is not football as players play the ball with their hands. It is more like a scaled down game of ruby.
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supabro15
Jan. 11, 2007, 11:59 p.m.LMAO...football...i suppose you know that america is the only country that is big on football.
i also suppose you, along with dozens of other obese men with bags of pork rinds and beer, consider soccer a [insert obscenity relating to a cat] sport, eh?
sad that america never picked up on soccer....looking back on my highschool days, i really wish that i would have played. il be playing intramurals in college though....definitely!
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coreyspring
Jan. 11, 2007, 4:31 p.m.I'd say maybe this would boost interest in American soccer, but I *highly* doubt it.
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AtomicSteaks
Jan. 11, 2007, 6:11 p.m.I get a kick out of the Brit's sometimes...They have no problem with "America sux" tude but have no problem coming over and benefiting from our economy...This would absolutely not happen anywhere else But the US..
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inaroundabout
Jan. 11, 2007, 6:53 p.m.Never heard of anyone getting paid $250 million for not being watched by anybody before.
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yinyangshiningstar
Jan. 11, 2007, 7:23 p.m.L.A Galaxy just blew 250 mil...soccer is still too slow and too boring irregardless of beckham. Takes too long to score. at least with hockey they "let them fight" between the scoring lull. Many ppl of suburbia may love it but if they think that soccer will EVER replace or even get into the same stratosphere as football or basketball here, they are delusional.
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awongscreen
Jan. 11, 2007, 10:44 p.m.You are right. Soccer (I mean football) will not get to the level of of american football and basketball in the US. American has to miss out on the good stuff again.
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avoiceofreason
Jan. 11, 2007, 8:03 p.m.hmm...too boring, too slow? maybe that's because american teams cant play for crap.
The entire rest of the world has *football* as it's #1 sport (you know, this sport we play with our *feet*, not that ****** weakling version of rugby you guys play with padding, that you stop every 30 seconds to take a breather)
-incidentally, the same sport that was invented and called Football first about 150 years before 'American football' was created-
Only america doesnt like or get football, and that's because the average american attention capacity is 20 seconds at best XD lol Thats why you have to score every minute in basketball, fight in hockey, swing a bat every 10 seconds in baseball, and take a breather every 30 in Yank 'football'...
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avoiceofreason
Jan. 11, 2007, 8:04 p.m.Everyone else in the world calls it the Beautiful Game for a reason, when played well, it proves that you need something called skill.
Football is a perfect example of what's wrong with america today. You're so insulated and self obessed with yourselves as a nation, you want to just play yourselves at games so you can guarantee you win XD lol
Good going beckham, he's 3-5 years past his peak, slow, uncreative, and is tacky in his fashion and lifestyle. Perfect for the shallow US... rake em for all they got! mwahahahaha hehe.
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harriermech
Jan. 11, 2007, 8:37 p.m.thats because everyone else in the world is to dumb to understand a fast pace game like football or basketball. You play a game for what 90 minutes might have 1 goal and a bunch of guys running around kicking a ball. Yeap sounds like a lot of fun. But i do have to say i like rugby those guys are just nuts. I guess the brits did get one game right.
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awongscreen
Jan. 11, 2007, 10:49 p.m.Yes, in a sense that americans copied the rugby game and call (or miscall) it as "football". However, it is too boring so the rest of the world only watches rugby.
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Harbeas
Jan. 11, 2007, 9:32 p.m.supabro15
You are right about it being the most popular sport in the world, except in the U.S. It will never be that popular in the U.S. either because we have to many other sports we can watch.
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awongscreen
Jan. 11, 2007, 10:53 p.m.There are indeed too many sports to watch in America.
The rest of the world has a limited number of sports to watch. They only have badminton, table tennis, curling, volleyball, basketball, cylcing, fencing, swimming, track and field, .................., Oh and Soccer (I mean football). :)
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evolute50
Jan. 11, 2007, 10:36 p.m.No, in the US people don't watch sports; they bet sports, argue sports, fantasy league sports, etc etc. It is short attention span theater. You can't even go to a minor league baseball game and hear the game being played for all the asinine racket they put on for the kids, which is everyone in attendance. Soccer is a game for people who can actually see a play develop rather than having it drawn on a screen for them (like Romper Room?) by some retired dope with a light stick and a negative opinion. How exciting. As for scoring, if football scores were not artificially inflated, most games end 3-2, 4-3 at best. Often they are only 2 to 1, and one of the scores isn't even a touchdown, but a field goal. Baseball sure isn't much better.
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elzorro2162
Jan. 11, 2007, 11:46 p.m.Yeah who the heck cares about soccer! Boring...and what kind of sport could end in a tie...puhlease!
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stephen-johnson
Jan. 11, 2007, 11:43 p.m.I wonder if Becks is going to LA to break into the movies once his career ends? It worked for Arnold.
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Noledina
Jan. 12, 2007, 12:54 a.m.Soccer doesn't have a chance of being big in the United States? Can't compete against the big sports here? Explain this...why did the World Cup this past June/July blow all other sports at the time away in ratings in the United States (including after the national team was eliminated)? Keep in mind that both the NBA and NHL finals were going on at the same time. Yea it sounds like we really have no interest in the sport. Further more soccer is the most played sport in the United States, but with no real professional outlet here it isn't continued much past high school.
David Beckham will make an impact in the United States. Because of his high profile, more people will go to watch games, and it will get more media coverage, and will thus create more interest in the sport. It might be good for him, but it won't hurt the MLS. Keep in mind only 1/5 of that $250 mil is assured to him.
Keep an open mind.
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elzorro2162
Jan. 12, 2007, 7:36 a.m.One thing is the fever revolving around a 2 week event, another is sustaining an audience for a whole season. And just like interest in the world cup faded, the same will happen w/ Beckham. The same discourse you are mentioning occured in the mid 90's when the World Cup took place right here in the USA...yet, where is soccer now? Professional sports in this country in order to thrive must have a tradition...ingrained in our culture. Football, Basketball, Baseball, Hockey, Nascar...yes. Soccer...not!
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bill-smith
Jan. 12, 2007, 8:36 a.m.Are you old enough to remember Pele and the New York Galexy? He was the "best" player in the world and he was going to make soccer popular in the US back in the 1970's. It didn't work then and I fear it will not work now. An older, past his prime superstar in a league full of has-beens, never-weres and not-there-yets will not do anything to make the US "footbol" crazy.
If and when the level of competition in the US professional leagues reaches that of other countries around the world maybe it will become popular here in the US.
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Mulder
Jan. 12, 2007, 1 a.m.Mr. Beckham is one of th most over-ratd footballer in the world. He and Posh spend half their time in LA anywayz, this way he will get to spend even more time in Hollywood. Furthemore, I wonder if Posh i going to like this because I know for a fact that she was quite upset with him last time because Snoop Dog invited him to party with him.
Oh well, enjoy the money Beckers. Hop you can still bend it, cause thats the only way you can score now.
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0gramstransfat
Jan. 12, 2007, 1:25 a.m.great. more plastic euro trash living the high life in l.a. i wonder how much plastic surgery they both get by the end of the decade?
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chevydog
Jan. 12, 2007, 2:33 a.m.Watching soccer/football is cool. There are few things that look better than a developing play from the cheap, high seats. But I've given up on it becoming a big thing in the US. The sport has been trying since the mid-1960's, and it doesn't look any closer now than it did then.
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elzorro2162
Jan. 12, 2007, 7:29 a.m.Soccer will NOT make it big in US. For decades they have tried over and over to make it so with poor results. Even Pele, the greatest player of all time, couldn't get the sport popularized, i doubt this overrated brit hearthrob will have a fan base beyond soccer moms and a few young women.
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jwh1476
Jan. 12, 2007, 8:18 a.m.soccer will take off in the US only if we can get close to a world cup.A sport big in europe thats even further from the spotlight here is cricket.I have respect for every sport though even if i dont watch em those of you dogging american or euro sports ought to really try to play the sport before you call it stupid. 250,000,000. though is insane for five years and he must have really not wanted to play here if they had to pay him that much money.
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