Laying SOCCER’s American failure at Beckham’s feet is a little disingenuous. Soccer has long floundered in the US, and using one man to jump-start it is an error in planning as much as execution.
The only thing that will save soccer in the USA is the enormous influx of Third Worlder’s.
All true. But it was also preposterous of Beckham and Posh to think their star power alone would make soccer relevant to Americans.
They did seem to conduct themselves as though they fully expected that Beckham’s soccer experience would not even miss a beat in being transferred from England to America.
Wayne Gretzky jumped started hockey fandom, almost by his lonesome.