Can Beckham bring America closer to the world?
At 31, English soccer player David Beckham Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. , who prays for Rear
Madrid in Spain, has signed a deal. worth $250 million over five years
with the Los Angeles Galaxy The Los Angeles Galaxy are a professional football (soccer) team based in Carson, California that participates in Major League Soccer. The name "Galaxy" refers to Los Angeles being the home of many Hollywood "stars". team. (He starts this summer.) Beckham is
out to change Major League Soccer in the U.S., which has fizzled over
the past dozen years. I know, he likes the limelight, has a flashy wife
(Posh Spice) and tattoos, and hasn't dribbled past an opponent in
years. But Beckham in Hollywood is a powerful lure that's likely to
bring America closer to the world. He's a self-made man, an image
merchant, and a constant re-inventor of himself: In other words Adv. 1. in other words - otherwise stated; "in other words, we are broke" put differently ,
he's American to the core. If Beckham can bring the MLS See multilevel security. to life, he
will be bridge-building. America's "otherness" has been
attributed to many things in recent years, but its failure to fall in
rove with football, as the rest of the world carts it, strikes billions
of people as weird. There's hope. With Becks, anything's
possible.
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