Who the hell is LA Galaxy

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Out of all the football teams Becham could choose why this crappy US soccer team. If he wanted to be a kind among dogs, he should have chose Grimsby at least they could play better football.

Yeah, I when I read about it I thought: Is this a joke or what?

Well, besides the great climate, I bet he'll be happy to be in America where he isn't as big of a "star." I met him in the Apple Store, and I had no idea who he was until the girls around me started freaking out. I felt kind of bad for him; I mean, he probably couldn't go anywhere without being mobbed. The staff at Apple offered to let him hang out in the back to get away from the ever growing crowd, but he was cool and signed all sorts of stuff--saying that it was nothing like his home in Europe. Americans aren't as futball happy as Europeans, after all.

And I suppose that there are worse teams than the Galaxy, anyway. And he can make any team better. Plus, it's southern California.

There's lots of reasons/challenges he takes on by this move. The most obvious reason is LA, any athlete who ultimately is planning on more crossover into media or movie industry will wind up on an LA sports team. The LA 'scene' is the main thing, but yeh also the conditions that many ppl like. As for playing on a mediokre US team, I think it's a challenge for him. Above anything, a chance for him to lend his bigname popularity in hopes of boosting US popularity of soccer. So US soccer needs him more & he's just up for the challenge. LA's the perfect place for him to logically wind up, where he can do the most good for US soccer in general.

To rehash a cliche, there are 250 million reasons for him to move to LA. This has been done before and it was a success with Pele and the New York Cosmos. If you are interested here is the trailer to a documentary about it:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2117624904908004993&q=Once+in+a+Lifetime

A success? Where are the Cosmos today? The NASL? Pele and the high $$$ price players they signed is exactly why that league is defunct. In the soccer biz, this is being seen by some as the begining of the end, and others the end of the begining. A sports economy blog even titled their post the same way. I'm a general manager for a soccer club in Brasil, and believe me, this move has left alot of people scratching their heads. It may push the MLS into financial problems of the boom doesn't come.

MLS is experiencing their most financial success to date though, with many teams investing in new stadiums and reaping the benefits of that. Ticket sales have seen significant growth recently, and that was before Beckham signed. There's money in the sport in the US, and it's a financially viable league, unlike NASL. Yeah, it's a lot of money to pay one player, but believe me, these people have it, or they can get that kind of money.

Here in New England, the owners of the New England Patriots, the most successful American Football team over the last 6 years, also own the local MLS team, which has also enjoyed some success. It's not their style, (they're known for drawing a hard line on player salaries) but I'm sure they could invest a hundred million or more into a soccer player if they wanted to.

His move to an unknown team puts me in mind of what happened last season in Formula 1, with David Coulthard leaving McLaren to help kickstart RedBull's F1 team.

I never said it was a long term success, but it did grow an interest in soccer in the US that was unprecedented.

Indeed.

Who is LA Galaxy.

that's almost asking where Tacoma is.