posted Jul 15, 2007

becks is a good player but wasn't quick enough or exciting enough to be up there with the likes of henry or r'dinho
As for the states they dont appreciate sports that require patience or strategy unlike football in their country(rugby)its just barge in.

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posted Jul 15, 2007

"As for the states they dont appreciate sports that require patience or strategy unlike football in their country(rugby)its just barge in"

oh shut up

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posted Jul 15, 2007

Unfortunately in a nation that's dominated by Baseball, Basketball, Ice Hockey and American Football, I'm afraid that once the Beckham razzle dazzle has died down (and it will), soccer will sink back into it's current lowly state of a curiosity or an obscurity? Why? Because our US friends haven't got a cat in hells chance of becoming 'world champions' and as a nation of winners they don't accept coming anything other than top of the pile, which they (and their youngsters who are the future of their sports) can currently do in a whole bunch of their home grown sports - and that's the driver for American sportsmen - winning, whether it's a Superbowl ring or setting a new record. Neither Beckham past his prime or any other great players looking for a final pay day will change that in my opinion.

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posted Jul 16, 2007

They've had the likes of Pele and George Best, they've even already had a Becks go over there to try and turn t into a game for the masses - Beckenbauer and it still failed to make football into a big sport in America.

They were saying the same things back then as well "it's popular with kids" etc etc etc.

It seems to me that America just doesn't want football. They've already got sports that they're passionate about.

They've even had the World Cup which failed to make football any more popular.

Taking Beckham there is like a basketball team in England bringing over the most famous basketball player from America. He'd be largely ignored by the masses no matter how famous he was.

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posted Jul 16, 2007

Like all Americans.. and their fantastic personas.. they never really care about anything... Becks.. will do best if he wears the American Flag on his head and would help much if he got his voice altered.. What people dont seem to realise which was not the case during the time of Pele.. is the number of Becks followers in the US.. Hispanics number upto 40 million..

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posted Jul 16, 2007

It's not a new beginning it's the beginning of the end for the worlds most overrated player.

He never was a great player more like an average player who was very good at one or two things. I use the word was there.

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posted Jul 16, 2007

I think beckham is immense and a great player. He's only gone there for the beckham brand but I don't know why, he's got enough money already to never be short so why go there. I think the best thing beckham should've done would've been to got to spurs, he supported them as a child and he could help bring on the young english players including his successor arron lennon (who can't cross a ball to save his life), for a life that has had its ups and downs i think that would've been the better swansong and maybe they would've got a break into the 'big 4'.

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posted Jul 17, 2007

Forget all the media hullabullah about Beckham - I can easily count the overall amount of people all over the UK who are "REALLY" going to miss looking at Victoria's miserable pout in the newspapers every week.

It's not a hanging offence to SMILE once in a blue moon, Victoria - at least LOOK like you're ENJOYING the high life in Los Angeles!

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posted Jul 17, 2007

Alright, so the Beckhams have said countless times in the papers that "it's our dream come true to come to live in Los Angeles", as quoted so much on CNN over the past week. (God, to think that I came over here to Miami on a four-week holiday to GET AWAY from the Beckham media overkill, for crying out loud!)

The only people that I feel any ounce of real sympathy for is young Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz - they will clearly grow up with so many "friends" who will only want to know them because of their fame and their name.

I also think that the media circus surrounding Beckham himself will quickly fizzle out over a couple of months, because "soccerball" is not on top of the sorting prowess in the USA, and it never has been for many years. As one 606er had already quoted, the USA only likes to compete in sports where they can win - even coming second or being awarded a silver medal in any serious competition - not a mean feat by any means at all - is sadly considered as being a "national disgrace" to many of their followers out here.

As global as Beckham may be around the World, he is never going to be held in the same regard as sportsmen such as Kobe Bryant, Wayne Gretzky, Shaq O'Neal, Cuttino Mobley, Jarmoir Jaqr or Floyd Mayweather over here in the States - his playing style in football (sorry, that should be "soccer" over here) is not exactly going to pull in the popcorn-and-hot-dog-loving punters here either.

Name me ONE American sports fan out here who can even remember Beckham's free-kick against Greece in 2001, his 2002 World Cup penalty agaisnt Argentina in 2002, his Treble win with Man United in 1999, or his recent La Liga triumph with Real Madrid just before he arrived in L.A.

No, I thought not.

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posted Jul 17, 2007

Alright, so the Beckhams have said countless times in the papers that "it's our dream come true to come to live in Los Angeles", as quoted so much on CNN over the past week. (God, to think that I came over here to Miami on a four-week holiday to GET AWAY from the Beckham media overkill, for crying out loud!)

The only people that I feel any ounce of real sympathy for is young Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz - they will clearly grow up with so many "friends" who will only want to know them because of their fame and their name.

I also think that the media circus surrounding Beckham himself will quickly fizzle out over a couple of months, because "soccerball" is not on top of the sporting prowess in the USA, and it never has been for many years. As one 606er had already quoted, the USA only likes to compete in sports where they can win - even coming second or being awarded a silver medal in any serious competition - not a mean feat by any means at all - is sadly considered as being a "national disgrace" to many of their followers out here.

As global as Beckham may be around the World, he is never going to be held in the same regard as sportsmen such as Kobe Bryant, Wayne Gretzky, Shaq O'Neal, Cuttino Mobley, Jaromir Jaqr or Floyd Mayweather over here in the States - his playing style in football (sorry, that should be "soccer" over here) is not exactly going to pull in the popcorn-and-hot-dog-loving punters here either.

Name me ONE American sports fan out here who can even remember Beckham's free-kick against Greece in 2001, his 2002 World Cup penalty agaisnt Argentina in 2002, his Treble win with Man United in 1999, or his recent La Liga triumph with Real Madrid just before he arrived in L.A.

No, I thought not.

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