BRYANT IS BACKING BECKHAM; SIX DAYS TO BEIJING GOING FOR GOLD.Byline: JOHN CROSS in MACAU BASKETBALL star Kobe Bryant Kobe Bean Bryant (born July 23 1978) is an American All-Star shooting guard in the National Basketball Association (NBA) who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers. wants to team up with David Beckham LA Galaxy star Beckham has become close friends with 29- year-old Bryant - part of the USA basketball dream team - since moving to the States. And London 2012 organising committee chairman Seb Coe hopes to make Beckham, 33, the figurehead figurehead, carved decoration usually representing a head or figure placed under the bowsprit of a ship. The art is of extreme antiquity. Ancient galleys and triremes carried rostrums, or beaks, on the bow to ram enemy vessels. of a British football team for the Games. LA Lakers' Bryant, in Macau for two Olympic warm-up warm-up pre-race exercise by a horse. matches, said: "He has already had a huge impact on soccer in the US. It just takes a little time. David is David I, king of Scotland David I, 1084–1153, king of Scotland (1124–53), youngest son of Malcolm III and St. Margaret of Scotland. During the reign of his brother Alexander I, whom he succeeded, David was earl of Cumbria, ruling S of the Clyde already playing to big crowds everywhere. "I played soccer all the time in Italy, you almost have to when you're there. Once I came back to the States, it obviously wasn't as popular. "But soccer definitely helped my basketball - the footwork and the rhythm of the game." CAPTION(S): IDOL Becks is wanted as a 2012 figurehead |
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