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Oldtimer
02-27-2009, 10:32 AM
Too bad Los Angeles Galaxy can't auction off Beckham on eBay


David Beckham is like that suit languishing in the back of everyone's closet. It was too expensive when bought and too flashy by half when you tried it on. Every time you've thought about wearing it since, you wonder what possessed you in the first place.
The difference is that getting something for Becks now won't be as easy as auctioning him off on eBay.
Still, Beckham's desire to leave the Los Angeles Galaxy for AC Milan is something the people in charge of Major League Soccer should be able to work with - not to mention learn from. He still has some value.
Besides, his decision to leave says more about him than it does the state of the pro game in the United States, which, despite still suffering from the same inferiority complex that brought Beckham here, really isn't half bad.
He was paid plenty to come, but when Beckham & Co. made his much-ballyhooed splashdown two years ago, he was 31 and already more a complementary part than a star. He did what he could on the field, for the most part. But he arrived hurt, wasn't available for duty much during his first season, and wound up surrounded by a weak team the last one.
The Galaxy's marketing team and the sponsors who kicked in the rest of the millions that lured him here on top of his US$32.5 million, five-year contract turned out to be weaker still. They never held Beckham to his promises about being "an ambassador" and to be "part of the growth of the game in the States." We think American pro athletes are insulated, but it doesn't compare to the cocoons Europe's biggest soccer stars have built for themselves. Despite living here, it was almost like Beckham never left there.


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full article.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gDLeEuDUBSPpoPKE3TVwzI8VJldw

Brooker
02-27-2009, 10:47 AM
great article. hilarious and sad.