David Beckham?

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enserio

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They paying this dude an enormous sum of money to try and give life to soccer in the U.S.

It didn't worrk when they brought Pele here, so I'm not sure this is going to work, either.
 
NiNe2FiVe

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enserio said:
They paying this dude an enormous sum of money to try and give life to soccer in the U.S.

It didn't worrk when they brought Pele here, so I'm not sure this is going to work, either.
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there is no way soccer is going to amount to anything in america, we dont have the type of fan base for it to be a major market type sport, America is entrenched in fast action and tradition ie basketball, football,baseball, and to a lesser extent hockey and boxing, Soccer has weird rules, is slow, and takes too damn long by american standards,the only real market this would appeal too would be the latino community, and while it is a large market there wouldnt be enough fan dollars spent on merchandise and shit like that which is what soccer would need to stay afloat, i personally hate soccer but i can see to appeal of it, but it still wont play in america
 
ReKz

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NiNe2FiVe said:
and while it is a large market there wouldnt be enough fan dollars spent on merchandise and shit like that which is what soccer would need to stay afloat
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Beckham sells 250,000 Galaxy shirts before he gets to LA
Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:21PM BST

MIAMI (Reuters) - David Beckham's move to L.A Galaxy has already set the cash tills ringing at the Major League Soccer club with a quarter of a million replica team shirts ordered before they were even unveiled.

Beckham is due to arrive in Los Angeles later on Thursday and will be officially presented by the Galaxy on Friday.

"We're already well over a quarter of a million units that were ordered ... without knowledge of what they were going to look like," Galaxy president Alexi Lalas told the club's website (http://la.galaxy.mlsnet.com/).

"We will look to do significant numbers and historic numbers not just with an MLS context but with an international jersey context," he added.

Galaxy have changed from a yellow and green outfit to an all-white home kit very similar to the one Beckham wore with Spanish club Real Madrid.

During his first six months in Madrid the club sold more than one million Beckham shirts.

After he left Spain on a high midway through last month with Real celebrating its first Primera Liga title success for four years, the club's director of marketing Jose Angel Sanchez said Beckham had been worth in excess of $600 million in marketing revenue.

As well as the shirt-buying frenzy, Beckham has appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated, a rare honor for a soccer player, and will star in a new TV documentary shortly.

He is due to make his debut for L.A in a friendly against Chelsea on July 21.
 
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ReKz said:

Beckham sells 250,000 Galaxy shirts before he gets to LA
Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:21PM BST

MIAMI (Reuters) - David Beckham's move to L.A Galaxy has already set the cash tills ringing at the Major League Soccer club with a quarter of a million replica team shirts ordered before they were even unveiled.

Beckham is due to arrive in Los Angeles later on Thursday and will be officially presented by the Galaxy on Friday.

"We're already well over a quarter of a million units that were ordered ... without knowledge of what they were going to look like," Galaxy president Alexi Lalas told the club's website (http://la.galaxy.mlsnet.com/).

"We will look to do significant numbers and historic numbers not just with an MLS context but with an international jersey context," he added.

Galaxy have changed from a yellow and green outfit to an all-white home kit very similar to the one Beckham wore with Spanish club Real Madrid.

During his first six months in Madrid the club sold more than one million Beckham shirts.

After he left Spain on a high midway through last month with Real celebrating its first Primera Liga title success for four years, the club's director of marketing Jose Angel Sanchez said Beckham had been worth in excess of $600 million in marketing revenue.

As well as the shirt-buying frenzy, Beckham has appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated, a rare honor for a soccer player, and will star in a new TV documentary shortly.

He is due to make his debut for L.A in a friendly against Chelsea on July 21.
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thats 250k in a state of 33million, and thats just from the hype, dude hasnt even played a single game yet, its gonna be a fad for a minute, just like when pele, then itll spin off into obscurity, america isnt a soccer country, never has been never will be
 
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^^^you're wasting a lot of effort hating on the sport, good job..if you don't like it than don't respond in the thread, simple as that...i can see where you're coming from with all the over-hypeness but overall the game of soccer is much more than you know/undestand...you took more effort clicking the thread, writing your reply with all negative comments out of nowhere...basically you're the reason soccer will never blow up here...

and beckham isnt the best player in the game right now, ronaldinho/messi/riquelme/kaka are way better BUT at least the sport got its name in your mouth now...
 
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OH aight....lol..i was gonna say....i gave up 7 years of my life to playing competitive soccer.

And yeah Ronaldino is a sav....I've never seen a player who could handle the ball better, and with such an accurate shot.

peace
 
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NiNe2FiVe said:
America is entrenched in fast action and tradition ie basketball, football,baseball, and to a lesser extent hockey and boxing, Soccer has weird rules, is slow, and takes too damn long by american standards
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soccer is fast action. and americans dont watch hockey or boxing anymore than they do soccer. latinos watch boxing thats it, and more latinos watch soccer than boxing (except for faggy puerto ricans who are too busy getting their sideburns edged up by thier papi)...white and black people havent watched boxing since the hollyfield days. and did you know that this past soccer gold cup final got higher ratings than any nhl final ever has here in america?

i dont think beckham and mary poppins coming over will lead to an immediate growth of the sport, but little by little it is growing here and this whole beckham thing is only adding to it. and once its cool enough so that black kids stop wanting to be rappers, football or basketball player, and start playing soccer, thats when the usa team may stand a chance in the world cup...and itll lead to alota cool race wars in schools during soccer games at lunch
 
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