[aldo_14]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/6248835.stm

[Rictor]

Pretty-boy Beckham is over-rated anyway. Typical of the Americans to go for star power over actual football prowess. Cause he'll, like, look good in the magazines, and that's what's really important.

[Centrixo]

good-riddence beckham, your a lousey england captain.

Terry looks the deal along with furgey.

[Unknown Target]

Pretty-boy Beckham is over-rated anyway. Typical of the Americans to go for star power over actual football prowess. Cause he'll, like, look good in the magazines, and that's what's really important.

Yay! Random, typical, uninformed, ignorant, and uncalled for anti-Americanism!

Anyway, I don't pay attention to sports in general, sooo....boo or yay?

[Fineus]

Yay! Random, typical, uninformed, ignorant, and uncalled for anti-Americanism!

Anyway, I don't pay attention to sports in general, sooo....boo or yay?

If you don't pay attention to sports, how can you say he's wrong about Beckham?

[Blue Lion]

There's pro soccer in the US? 

[brozozo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Soccer

I thought it was a myth.

[Rictor]

Yay! Random, typical, uninformed, ignorant, and uncalled for anti-Americanism!

Random, typical, uninformed and ignorant yes. But not...what was that last thing? Ah, lighten up, it was more a swipe at Beckham than the States (I try to limit those to political talk )

[Windrunner]

well he is going to earn 250 million $ for a five year contract. lucky bastard

[Ghostavo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Soccer

I thought it was a myth.

A notable feature of MLS is that all the player contracts are with the central organization, not with the teams. The players are allocated by the central organization to the teams in a balanced way. The separate teams are mostly individually operated. This structure permits MLS to impose a team-wide salary cap compatible with US law.

 

Won't this affect pretty-boy's team?

[Blue Lion]

Isn't he getting paid more money now?

[Unknown Target]

Yay! Random, typical, uninformed, ignorant, and uncalled for anti-Americanism!

Anyway, I don't pay attention to sports in general, sooo....boo or yay?

If you don't pay attention to sports, how can you say he's wrong about Beckham?

I was talking about this part:

Pretty-boy Beckham is over-rated anyway. Typical of the Americans to go for star power over actual football prowess. Cause he'll, like, look good in the magazines, and that's what's really important.

Although to be honest it looks like I misread it, I thought he said "Typical of Americans" instead of "Typical of the Americans". The "the" con notates a certain group, while without it it seems to say that he's saying that of all Americans. My bad.

[aldo_14]

Isn't he getting paid more money now?

Why else would he go?

[Corsair]

Nobody pays attention to the MLS here... this is one of the dumber things I've heard in a while. All the major papers are covering it and all the regular people say "who cares?"

[Polpolion]

I don't care about football (American soccer).

1) it's not broadcast in the U.S. (probably because we all suck )
2) I played before, and it wasn't all that fun (probably because I sucked )

[peterc10]

of children are learning football at a young age in the U.S and beckham may encourage ven more people so in 10-20 years, who knows, the U.S.A might win the world cup (doubtful)

Beckham is past his best though

[Centrixo]

lol like the usa will win european style football championship. you got Italy, france, senegal, brazil, uk, germany, greece i mean there good. but i wouldnt mind if the underdog punched above its wait.

[Rictor]

of children are learning football at a young age in the U.S and beckham may encourage ven more people so in 10-20 years, who knows, the U.S.A might win the world cup (doubtful)

Beckham is past his best though

Yeah, but the rest of the world doesn't want the US poking its nose where it doesn't belong. They're happy to have NASCAR, American football and pig wrestling, and the rest of the world is happy to have real sports. No one would benefit from the two sides mixing.

If the US does enter the mainstream and embrace football, I fear it will be in the most abnoxious manner possible. They're very competitive, and will make a point of throwing enough money at the sport to trounce all the earnest-yet-poor countries. No country that I know of has commercialized its sports to the degree that the US has. Football is about spirit, not corporate sponsors and 8-figure salaries for the players. Admittedly, the commercialization of the sport has already been ongoing for quite a while, but I don't see how the US' involvement will help matters.

yes, I know, I'm terribly anti-American. But on this issue, I think I'm actually right

[Thor]

to heck with American soccer,  I'm still waiting for Canada to win ...go Canada...yeah...wait hockey's on?  oh....well lets get that on then...go leafs!   

Getting North Americans to pay attention to Soccer/football is going to be hard, and Beckham isn't enough by far.  heck, baseball can barely hold onto its fans, and its America's national pastime.  soccer doesn't stand much of a chance at the moment.

at any rate:
Back to Hockey Day in CANADA!

[Centrixo]

might be something to do with steroids and other drugs to cheat the sports. example athletics.

i dont mind nascar its exciting, albiet going around in circles for 200 laps but that doesnt really matter imo.

i dont mind the usa entering into other sports i mean recently there has been no f1 driver in f1 and now look, you got scott speed.

as for nascar why i as a european find it exciting is someone like paul menard winning his first race and denying someone like J. J. Yeeley. but my first time i thought of it as something really dull, i mean its like this. left, then another left, and another left after that. then you got the interesting part with the aerodynamics and so on. but back to the point.

i doubt beckham will help the usa with its campaign to win the football wc. i seriously doubt it.