Football / Soccer experts: How can a player make a league successful?
Believe me, as an American, I would love to see MLS become as traditional, competitive, and respected as any in the world. But I fail to see how the arrival of Mr. Beckham is supposed to vault MLS to a higher standing? All I can envision is more worldwide coverage, increased financial backing through advertising as a result of wider coverage, and a small exodus of very good players near the end of their respectful careers coming to the United States. I do not see how this will foster growth within America to where we are producing great players of our own on a time scale that will prevent MLS from reaching the same fate as NASL because of the contracts that exceeded their ability to attract fans. Nothing against world players coming here to help popularize the game. They are great even at this stage, but is it such a good idea to spend so much on him and other players who want to come here? Is the game any better because they getting so much money?
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U have a point but i am from Los Angeles and i know a lot of people who are already on planning to buy tickets to go see him play.
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I think after beckhams first season in the MLS no one will be talking about him. He'll probably on the bench next season. The only thing Beckham will do to the MLS is attract more girls to the stadium and people who dont care about soccer. And i dont think the MLS will ever get to the level of other leagues because there will always be basketball, baseball, football and all the other sports in the US and because americans just arent made for soccer and dont have the passion for it. I hope you dont cry when you read this.
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MLS never consider to bring brazilian soccer players? They are cheaper and better players than Mr. Beckham.
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Well, I can think of one example where it actually happened. The old American Football League was nothing, and then somehow they managed to sign Joe Namath to the New York Jets. The rest is history, as they say.... Who knows, maybe Beckham will be able to do something similar.
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Good question, i can see your points, well a player can make a league successful on his own on a number of different ways, but success comes at a cost, even thought I'm not a fan of Beckham's footballing skills (or lack of them) but he can still produce that one piece of magic from his dead ball skills alone, ie free kicks, corner kicks, peno's, etc, I'm certain that Beckham will be good for the game in the U.S, and as you've already pointed out there's sure to be a host of other top players going there, which in turn will make the average player from the league play that bit better and more youngsters will get envoled from an early age all because of a certain Mr Beckham, sure LA galaxy will make millions alone from selling shirts worldwide with Beckham's name and number on them, as more people will watch it so it will get bigger exposure outside the U.S even in other parts of the world that would never watch football from the U.S just because Beckham will be there, which has to be a good thing, so overall i think Beckham will be good for the game in the U.S, I'm also certain that mrs beckham will love the glitz and glamour of Hollywood!!
