No one man can be bigger than his team, or so the maxim goes, but David Beckham does not so much outshine the Los Angeles Galaxy as eclipse them. Amid all the Hollywood hysteria that attends his presentation at the Home Depot Center tomorrow, consider this - almost 3,000 miles away, on a Virginia student campus, the same players he hopes to inspire were beaten 1-0 by the Richmond Kickers, before a crowd of less than 5,000. For someone who insists he could have lasted three more seasons at Real Madrid, Beckham is finding the rationale for his career move undermined by some unglamorous realities.
It would be unwise to suggest this to the Galaxy's president, Alexi Lalas, who regards mocking mentions of "Beckham goes to Hollywood" with contempt and accuses the Premiership of peddling an inferior product. However, the travails of the team are self-evident. Winning just three of their 12 games to date, the Galaxy, suddenly American soccer's most famous franchise, are gripped by status anxiety. Sandwiched between Real Salt Lake and the Colorado Rapids at the foot of the Western Conference, they hardly look like a club who can be transformed in an instant by Beckham's influence.
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It would be unwise to suggest this to the Galaxy's president, Alexi Lalas, who regards mocking mentions of "Beckham goes to Hollywood" with contempt and accuses the Premiership of peddling an inferior product. However, the travails of the team are self-evident. Winning just three of their 12 games to date, the Galaxy, suddenly American soccer's most famous franchise, are gripped by status anxiety. Sandwiched between Real Salt Lake and the Colorado Rapids at the foot of the Western Conference, they hardly look like a club who can be transformed in an instant by Beckham's influence.
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