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International soccer superstar David Beckham is moving to Los Angeles. All it took was a five-year, $250 million contract with the LA Galaxy. Angelino soccer fans are hoping that Beckham's arrival will be more along the lines of Ruth-to-the-Yankees than Jordan-to-the-Wizards. According to Tim Leiweke, whose company runs the team, "David Beckham will have a greater impact on soccer in America than any athlete has ever had on a sport globally."
It will be nice to see a little more of this stateside:
Posted on January 11, 2007 by - Patrick James
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Love that he's coming - will definitely go see him play but he is just now reaching his sell by date. Almost a million bucks a week is just and insane amount of money. Here's what some of the sports writers at the Guardian think: The Fiver
Posted on January 11, 2007 — by Kuytshout
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Why couldn't we get one of the cool brit families?
I agree and disagree. Beckham is a pretty boy bitch. I'd rather put my crotch to a belt sander than hear one more bit about how he and his D-list concubine are the next "it couple". They might be the worst british import imagineable. Classless, gaudy and seemingly uncultured, they'll fit right in either LA or Boca Raton. Beckham is simply memorializing his expiration with an enormous payoff so he will be able to support "brooklyn" and "romeo's" (his children's actual names in case you didn't know) cocaine habits once they reach the age of 15.
Posted on January 13, 2007 — by NYLawyer
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