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Originally posted by ironweed
This is the Pele to New York Cosmos saga redux. Paying silly money for a player on the downslope of his career -- but with huge name recognition -- in the hope that Americans will start taking American soccer a bit more seriously.
Then again, the MLS has seemed fairly realistic about growing a league over the last 10 years or so and it won't all just disappear when Beckham retires.
LA has been that couple's spiritual home for years anyway.
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True -- but I don't think Beckham is quite as over-the-hill as Pele, Beckebauer, and Chinaglia were back in their Cosmos days. He probably could've stayed at Real Madrid or returned to the Premier League; I don't think Pele at 40, or however old he was when he joined the Cosmos, had those options.
On the other hand, US soccer is not quite the joke it was back then. Almost, but not quite.
If there were a team in the Bay Area, I'd go to games. But, alas, no more.
