Posted on 10/16/2009 8:58:45 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The Los Angeles Galaxy star came in the top ten of what one U.S. magazine called the biggest 'busts, choke artists'.
U.S. based Maxim magazine said Beckham's move to the Los Angeles team was nothing short of a 'catastrophe'.
After all the publicity about his £125m move, it said the former Manchester United star has failed miserably to make football - or soccer as it is called in the US - more attractive to fans.
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americans will never warm to it. i love the world cup and cannot wait to get up reaaaaaaallllly early to watch it.
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.
Isn’t soccer kind of like a bad version of keep-a -way?
No wonder all the socialists love it. That about sums up their entire world view right there.
The magazine points outs that attendances at LA Galaxy games are down by nearly 25 per cent - and the team wins more frequently when Beckham is not in the starting line up.
I don’t know, maybe he hasn’t been such a bust...after all, fake injuries and sales of orange slices are up...plus the crowds at Chuck E Cheese are getting larger.
they are confusing correlation with causation. he ain’t what he once was, but beckham is still a great player. especially in any league in the US.
That said, the game would be improved literally if we were to incorporate the old Aztec rules. Losing team gets sacrificed.
The rest of the world will never understand how displays of pansy ass behavior faking injuries on every bump could somehow turn Americans off. Not surprising considering the rest of the world is a bunch of pansy asses.
sorry - “literally” = “considerably” - need more coffee.
The only thing that will save soccer in the USA is the enormous influx of Third Worlder’s.
Shouldn’t blame Beck. He was poorly used. At this point in his career, Beckham is a specialist. But the popularity of Soccer in America is growing by leaps and bounds. The LA Galaxy is currently in first place in the MLS Western Division, so who cares about whether people think Beck was a bust.
Over in Britain, it's a Class thingy. Blue Collar plays Soccer, White Collar plays Rugger (Rugby Union, not Rugby League!)
Flame away Brits!
Heck, someone here on FR once told me that all that falling on the ground crying was actually brilliant strategy that helped a team stop a shift in momentum and rest it's players.
...Plus most of the world doesn’t have 4 MAJOR competing sports in the country. Football, baseball, basketball and hockey? Where would soccer fit? Other countries don’t have to deal with all that competition. In Europe you have soccer...soccer...and some basketball...then some more soccer.
I guess they’ve never heard of Ryan Leaf across the pond?
And Oguchi Onyewu’s injury was just a pansy fake, huh?
I remember my soccer team watching movies in the mid-70's about Pele and how he was going to bring the glorious international sport of soccer to us ignorant, provincial Americans.
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.
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