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The Beckham Experiment: How The World's Most Famous Athlete Tried To Conquer America (2009)

by Grant Wahl(Favorite Author)

3.87 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

030740787X (ISBN13: 9780307407870)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Crown Archetype

review 1: This is a pretty good write-up about the Beckham Experiment at the LA Galaxy. You will probably enjoy it if you're a fan of MLS (like me). Written well, with just the right amount of "People" magazine crap, it builds on the point that the Beckham Experiment was a clear failure for Galaxy and MLS on all fronts except jersey sales. This quote summarizes the experiment results pretty well: "Violating one of the cardinal rules of professional sports, the team had brought in a new player (Beckham) on a higher salary than the best player (Donovan), and the new guy hadn't been better himself. Compounding the problem, the Galaxy had lost games with spectacular regularity during the Beckham Era. Nor did it help that Donovan felt the team had forced him to give up the captaincy, onl... morey for Beckham to be a feckless leader."
review 2: An interesting insider's account of the MLS perhaps, however this read simply as a really, really, really unnecessarily long Sports Illustrated article. What's worst is that this writer obviously has an agenda and an opinion about European Football... A negative opinion of course (I'm sure the writer's nationality will therefore be easy to derive!).An OK book for what it was, but I wouldn't be unhappy if I had the few hours it took to get through it. less

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