Beckham to MLS?!

shotglass · Jan 13, 2007

Meatie Pie said:

MertWindu said:

everybody wave to petty and meatie as they exit with their varsity letterman's jackets and stonewashed jeans. See ya, blockheads.
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walking away is the second best thing to do when runts like you start yammering about that wuss sport. the first thing would be shoving you into a locker.

pussy.
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What the hell are you so threatened by? What do these folks take away from you?

You know, I think he feels inferior because he -- say it together with me, soccer fans -- DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THE GAME.

MertWindu · Jan 13, 2007

Asshat High Football ROOLZ!!!!

MertWindu · Jan 13, 2007

Also, Becks has been benched by the Galacticos.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=399849&cc=5901

I don't follow La Liga very much at all, so maybe I'm off base, but is Fabio Capello the biggest whining, petty, piece of shit manager not named Arsene Wenger?

GB-Hack · Jan 14, 2007

He's close to it, but you get that a lot from Italian managers. Marcello Lippi was another one who was always looking for a reason to complain about something.

By the way boys, football is a game played with the feet. How the hell your sport isn't called handball, I'll never know....

shotglass · Jan 14, 2007

Pretty funny line by Amy Poehler tonight on Weekend Update ...

"David Beckham signed a $250 million deal this week with a Major League Soccer club, the Los Angeles Galaxy, which apparently ... exists."

Piotr Rasputin · Jan 14, 2007

shotglass said:

Sly said:

So he's not that much better than the rest of the MLS players, but he's going to get paid $50 million per season? That doesn't add up.
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This is probably going to sound a little condescending, Sly, so I'm sorry in advance.

But the reason Beckham is a draw as a soccer player is because of something that the soccer layman may not grasp.

He is -- now, past his prime -- a very average end line-to-end line player. But that's not his gift. He is now more of a specialist ... a set-piece specialist.

This may be a very convoluted parallel, but imagine an NBA point guard who can curve his lob passes around the top of the key and put it on a dime by the cylinder for someone to dunk. The gift Beckham possesses, it's unique.

He scored a World Cup goal by putting enough English on a free kick that he put it over a wall and down into the goalmouth.

People are sick of the line, "Bend It Like Beckham." But it remains the best explanation of his appeal. He bends passes at will.
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You beat me to it. Excellent analogy with the NBA point guard.

If the media and fans just know what to expect from Beckham, this will be huge.

Piotr Rasputin · Jan 14, 2007

RAMBO said:

The richest athlete alive.
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And easily the most well-known active one.

Pastor · Jan 14, 2007

Ronaldo... Red Bull NY made him a $100-million offer last year which he rejected. They have contacted him again. I don't see it going through. There are other rumors of him going to another Euro team.

Figo... He's already signed with a team in Qatar. He's off the table. His recent comments show that he would have been a horrendous signing for MLS.

Now for the new names for Red Bull New York (that is where I know people):
Nedved & del Piero

I heard the name Nedved thrown about a few months ago.

Other notables...
Reyna has returned to America.

2muchcoffeeman · Jan 14, 2007

Tom Petty said:

soccer sucks. once 98 percent of americans reach the age of 10, they, and their mothers, realize soccer sucks and both begin acting as if they never had anything to do with the sport ... much like a heroine habit.
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Actually, down here in Florida their mothers are forming their own amateur soccer leagues. They play on one field, their kids play on another.

Oh ... heroine is not a drug. However, heroin is.

Tom Petty · Jan 14, 2007

2muchcoffeeman said:

Tom Petty said:

soccer sucks. once 98 percent of americans reach the age of 10, they, and their mothers, realize soccer sucks and both begin acting as if they never had anything to do with the sport ... much like a heroine habit.
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Actually, down here in Florida their mothers are forming their own amateur soccer leagues. They play on one field, their kids play on another.

Oh ... heroine is not a drug. However, heroin is.
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jesus christ coffee - i was referring to the florida mothers who are forming their own soccer leagues. come on man, get with it.

Mr7134 · Feb 24, 2007

Beckham proved this week that he really does still have it.

It's almost a shame that he's going out to pasture in MLS.

From...

http://football.guardian.co.uk/Match_Report/0,,2017844,00.html

Beckham shines to give Real a slight advantage

Simon Talbot in Madrid
Wednesday February 21, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

Real Madrid and Bayern Munich live to fight another day, but neither will feel that they have entirely shaken off their crises. Bayern appeared dead and buried, but recovered to take a potentially valuable result from the Santiago BernabÃ©u; Madrid appeared to be home and dry, reborn in Europe, but once again they are balanced on a knife-edge, their coach admitting that fear had taken hold. Ottmar Hitzfeld meanwhile called this an important step on the road to recovery, but lambasted his team's shambolic defending.

Marc Van Bommel's 88th minute volley finally rewarded the German's second half thrust, punishing Madrid's failure to kill the game when they had seemed to have everything in their favour and giving the Bavarians hope for the second leg.

It finished 3-2, a dangerous victory for Madrid to take to Munich and one that left the visiting fans happier, but a victory nonetheless. Neither side will be completely sure what lesson to take from this, the classic game of two halves

For Steve McClaren the lesson was clearer: there was a compelling case for returning Beckham to the England team, Oliver Khan describing his performance as "world class". The former captain was Madrid's best performer and had a hand in all three goals as the home side raced into a first half lead that should have proven unassailable.

Even Fabio Capello, the coach who insisted that he would never play for Madrid again, admitted: "He played very, very well - and has done since he came back into the team. He created two tonight and scored in San Sebastian. That is a fact - and one I recognise."

Beckham's influence here was felt as early as the tenth minute. His pass found Ruud Van Nistelrooy, who spun his marker and slipped a perfectly weighted pass through the gap for Raul to run onto and score at the second attempt. Madrid were all over the Germans, reducing Bayern to ludicrously hopeful shots from a long, long way out - Bastian Schweinsteiger particularly guilty. Only Owen Hargreaves could take any credit as the best of a bad Bavarian bunch.

And then suddenly, on 23 minutes, Bayern were level. Willy Sagnol swung in a deep free kick from the right, Iker Casillas stayed rooted to his line and Lucio headed home. It was a temporary reprieve: Madrid though retook the lead as easily as they had lost it. Beckham's corner reached Ivan Helguera, whose header did not seem dangerous, but it looped up in the air and dropped in just below the crossbar, fractionally out of reach of the man on the line. Helguera celebrated but Raul claimed it.

Five minutes later, another dead-ball, another Beckham delivery, another Helguera header and another goal, the ball going in at the same post. This time it was Ruud Van Nistelrooy was alert to poke home from the defender's header.

Madrid appeared to be cruising, Beckham having a wonderful free kick tipped over the bar in the opening moments of the second half. That, though, was that and Bayern took control. "At 3-1 up, the fear took hold of us," said Capello. That three goals should provoke fear was telling. "Things have not been going well for us, maybe there was a psychological issue there," the Italian admitted. "We tied up, like a tennis player whose arm goes. Teams have scored a lot of goals against us at the Bernabeu and we suffered a kind of fear."

If that was true, Bayern could smell it. The introduction of Claudio Pizarro, who Capello hailed as having "changed the game", tipped the balance in their favour as Madrid slipped deeper and deeper. He brought one sensational save from Casillas but just when it looked like the final whistle was to bring revival to the Bernabeu after all, their crisis was prolonged with the appearance of Van Bommel. A former Barca player to boot.
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wickedwritah · Feb 24, 2007

On-field compensation for Beckham's services in LA reportedly is worth $5.5 million per year.
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=410562&cc=5901

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