Juan Pablo Angel scored his first goal of the Major League Soccer season Saturday to deliver a 2-1 victory for the New York Red Bulls over David Beckham and the Los Angeles Galaxy.
Why does everyone refer to LA as Beckham's Galaxy? When did he start to own the team? Congrats Dave, you scored two goals and allowed for the Galaxy to draw with Real Salt Lake, and the other goal you scored made no difference, because you still lost. I won't argue that Beckham was once a great player, but at 32 years, he is past his prime. For a 250 million dollars spread out, LA could have recruited almost a full line of young African, Asian, or even B-side European players who can develop and grow, rather than have a washed up star who's ego clearly will shine brighter than his football. Way to go Galaxy. Keep up with these dumb deals and we can have the sexiest Football league, but will fall well short of ever being able to look competent on a world club stage. This is why most of our US national team squad comes from Euro teams. They pick talent over sex appeal. Key example? Ronaldinho. LA and MLS as a whole...Get a clue!
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gldnbr507 May 11st, 2008 20:01
Why does everyone refer to LA as Beckham's Galaxy? When did he start to own the team? Congrats Dave, you scored two goals and allowed for the Galaxy to draw with Real Salt Lake, and the other goal you scored made no difference, because you still lost. I won't argue that Beckham was once a great player, but at 32 years, he is past his prime. For a 250 million dollars spread out, LA could have recruited almost a full line of young African, Asian, or even B-side European players who can develop and grow, rather than have a washed up star who's ego clearly will shine brighter than his football. Way to go Galaxy. Keep up with these dumb deals and we can have the sexiest Football league, but will fall well short of ever being able to look competent on a world club stage. This is why most of our US national team squad comes from Euro teams. They pick talent over sex appeal. Key example? Ronaldinho. LA and MLS as a whole...Get a clue!