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NO Freaking Way!!!! Beckman playing for MLS
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deco said:
They got him because the Barca was also after him. In fact, Joan Laporta was elected with the promise of bringing Beckham. The Real Madrid went after him and the Barca got Ronaldinho instead. Now who's laughing lol He was a good player but never reached the level of Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Zidane, Figo... not even Del Piero. He'll be remembered for his free kicks, his wife, fashion/glamour and how poorly he (and others) did with the national team.
Longhorn85
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perkele said:
It didn't work with Pele and the NY Cosmos, maybe it will work this time around.
Americans are very familiar with soccer...they just don't like it. As a spectator sport, that is, at least compared to NFL, MLB, NBA, etc.
Delinquent
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Longhorn85 said:
That just doesn't make sense to me though as it's nonstop action once you learn the in's and out's of the game. You get no commercials except for halftime which I think is a huge plus IMO
I mean, look at baseball for example. Now, I like baseball and even grew up playing it but soccer is much more packed with action than baseball to me.
I just wish that they wouldn't zoom in on the players so much when filming american soccer. When you watch a foreign game, the camera is zoomed out enough to see plays develop whereas American channels zooming on where the ball is and maybe a couple players directly involved in the action
so is golf if you include them walking toward the ball after they hit it. Action to us means somebody scoring points. A 0-0 football game is as boring as a 0-0 soccer game........well..........almost.Delinquent said:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/soccer/01/11/bc.soccer.beckham.contract/index.html?cnn=yes
Entertainment value
Becks isn't getting big bucks ($250M!) just for soccer
Posted: Thursday January 11, 2007 3:30PM; Updated: Thursday January 11, 2007 4:02PM
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Soccer star David Beckham will reportedly earn $250 million in a five-year deal to play in the United States -- but at least 80 percent of that money has nothing to do with his kicking a ball for the Los Angeles Galaxy.
Although Beckham, who leaves Real Madrid at the end of the season, will become the highest paid player for Major League Soccer (MLS) in the United States, MLS sources say his annual playing income is only in the "single-figure millions."
With Beckham getting paid up to $50 million over five years for playing soccer, where does the rest of the money come from?
"Most of the value is from David's worldwide endorsement," MLS Deputy Commissioner Ivan Gazidis said on Thursday. "That's a separate deal. That's his deal with CAA (Creative Artists Agency) and 19 Entertainment. That's not something we're involved in.
"Obviously I think the feeling is that coming to the United States boosts the value of (the Beckham) brand and the revenues that can be generated from it, but that's not our business," he said. "It wasn't part of our contract discussions at all."
Beckham's playing contract falls well short of the big deals signed in Major League Baseball, where Alex Rodriguez is being paid $252 million and Derek Jeter $189 million, both over 10 years.
Scott Branvold, a professor in sports management at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, said the Beckham brand -- which includes the soccer player's wife, former Spice Girl pop star Victoria Beckham -- goes well beyond the game of soccer.
But he questioned whether Beckham truly could earn $200 million over five years through sponsorship and other business deals.
"Soccer has struggled so much in the United States that you certainly have to wonder whether there is any realistic possibility. Maybe he will do a reality show," he said.
"The fact that I would recognize who he is, and he hasn't really played in the United States, probably is commentary to the fact that his name is probably somewhat bigger than soccer itself," said Branvold.
Beckham earns about $7.7 million a year from Real Madrid and an estimated $30 million more from sponsorship deals with names such as Adidas, Gillette, Motorola and Pepsi, although 50 percent of his image rights go to the Spanish club.
"There are a lot of commercial elements in our deal with him -- the sale of jerseys and those types of things -- but when you are talking about the Beckham brand, where most of his revenue earning opportunities are, it's independent of the league," Gazidis said.
The 13 teams in Major League Soccer have an annual salary cap of $2.1 million for a roster of 18 players. But a new "designated player rule" -- dubbed the "Beckham rule" -- allows teams to pay above the salary cap for one player.
"We had a league in the late '70s and early '80s, the North American Soccer League, which went out of business because of uncontrolled spending by owners. This is not uncontrolled spending," said Gazidis, who handles player signings.
He said the league feels now is the right time to "strategically invest" in a name player and Beckham's presence would deliver value to MLS broadcast partners and sponsors and help drive up team values.
"But more importantly than all of that, he is a figure that has the ability to give soccer more cultural relevance in this country, and that's really what's driving this from our standpoint," Gazidis said.
Longhorn85
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Delinquent said:
Need more scoring opportunies. Make the net bigger? Fewer players?
Get rid of the little kids holding hands of the players as they walk onto the field and get some scantily clad cheerleaders.
Maybe they can come up with the soccer version of the 3 point shot.
Oh, and that offsides thing is annoying and hard to figure out.
ponyfitness
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Salary cap of 2.1 million for 18 players and he saunters in with a fat salary of 10 million at least? Think those other players who probably have to work a second job aren't going to be a little bit bitter? Never mind that the media attention certainly isn't going to be on the game or the league.
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