How close was David Beckham to joining AC Milan instead of the Los Angeles Galaxy? Extremely close, he says. But things worked out for the best: Becks has taken Major League Soccer by storm, even if the hype machine from last summer has died down. The media attention may be less, but Beckham has appeared in every game for the Galaxy and has contributed to their league-leading attack.
A British dramatist hopes to tell the soccer star's life story with "powerful, gospel-like rock"
The soccer star will appear in the final ceremony and kick off London's 2012 games
OAKLAND, Calif. -- The soap opera that is the Los Angeles Galaxy just gets weirder and weirder.
Does the soccer world care if the MLS can run its winning record against foreign opposition in the All-Star Game to 5-0?
"Everyone has made us feel so welcome," he says. "I can't imagine being anywhere else"
The soccer star bares his famous abs for the crowd in D.C. after losing the weekend match
David Beckham will captain England in their friendly game against Trinidad and Tobago in the Port of Spain on Sunday.
I ran into an acquaintance on a flight from Columbus to New York this weekend, and he said, "I hear Beckham scored an amazing goal."
David Beckham was named in England's squad for friendly games against the United States and Trinidad and Tobago as coach Fabio Capello keeps faith with the veteran Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder.
How close was David Beckham to joining AC Milan instead of the Los Angeles Galaxy? Extremely close, he says. But things worked out for the best: Becks has taken Major League Soccer by storm, even if the hype machine from last summer has died down. The media attention may be less, but Beckham has appeared in every game for the Galaxy and has contributed to their league-leading attack.
A British dramatist hopes to tell the soccer star's life story with "powerful, gospel-like rock"
The soccer star will appear in the final ceremony and kick off London's 2012 games
OAKLAND, Calif. -- The soap opera that is the Los Angeles Galaxy just gets weirder and weirder.
Does the soccer world care if the MLS can run its winning record against foreign opposition in the All-Star Game to 5-0?
"Everyone has made us feel so welcome," he says. "I can't imagine being anywhere else"
The soccer star bares his famous abs for the crowd in D.C. after losing the weekend match
David Beckham will captain England in their friendly game against Trinidad and Tobago in the Port of Spain on Sunday.
I ran into an acquaintance on a flight from Columbus to New York this weekend, and he said, "I hear Beckham scored an amazing goal."
David Beckham was named in England's squad for friendly games against the United States and Trinidad and Tobago as coach Fabio Capello keeps faith with the veteran Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder.
David Beckham was shown a yellow card as the Los Angeles Galaxy went down 2-1 to the New York Red Bulls, Juan Pablo Angel scoring the winner with his first goal of the new MLS season.
DeGeneres tries to get the athlete to go topless during an appearance on her show
David Beckham supplied two trademark passes for a Landon Donovan brace as the Los Angeles Galaxy held two-time defending champions Houston Dynamos to a 2-2 home draw in Major League soccer action on Saturday night.
MLS players salaries for the 2008 season made available by the MLS Players Union reveal that Los Angeles' David Beckham ($6.5 million guaranteed), Chicago's Cuauhtémoc Blanco ($2.67 million) and D.C. United's Marcelo Gallardo ($1.87 million) are the league's top earners.
The soccer star says his mother was the first to call him after he posed in his briefs
Playing in France, he makes his 100th appearance for England's national team
David Beckham's 100th cap ended in disappointment as France beat England 1-0 in their friendly international at the Stade de France on Wednesday.
David Beckham was named in England's starting line-up for their friendly against France on Wednesday night to guarantee that he will win his 100th international cap.
The soccer stud calls presenting an award to the hero "a highlight moment for me"
David Beckham improved his chances of winning a 100th England cap after coming through Los Angeles Galaxy's pre-season clash with FC Dallas unscathed in front of Fabio Capello's right-hand man.
For a tournament set in a fabulous Hawaiian setting, there's much of the Pan-Pacific Championship that's not to like.
LOS ANGELES -- Ah, preseason. A chance to play "name that camp invitee," watch grown men stretch their groins together and start the David Beckham watch again.
David Beckham is determined to win his place back in the England team after being left out of Fabio Capello's first squad for the friendly against Switzerland next week.
New England coach Fabio Capello has omitted David Beckham from his first squad in charge for next Wednesday's friendly international against Switzerland at Wembley.
David Beckham's trip to West Africa made a profound impression on the soccer star.
David Beckham's first season with the L.A. Galaxy may have been a disappointment – but he's got big plans for 2008.
David Beckham is desperate to win his 100th cap for England under new coach Fabio Capello, the Los Angeles Galaxy star revealed at a special evening in his honor in London on Sunday night.
David Beckham trained with English Premier League leaders Arsenal on Friday in an effort to maintain his fitness for international duty during his American club's off-season break.
Twelve months is a long time in soccer. In 2006, Italy demonstrated the international game's ability to triumph in adversity. A year later, the club game fought back and reasserted itself over national-team concerns.
Question: When is a fiasco not a fiasco? Well, the answer has to be, "when it's David Beckham." His much-ballyhooed, incredibly hyped arrival in the U.S. to play for the Los Angeles Galaxy managed to take in, simultaneously, both ends of Kipling's equation: both triumph and disaster.
David Beckham is set to train with Premier League leaders Arsenal during the Los Angeles Galaxy's close season.
David Beckham scored from the penalty spot as the Los Angeles Galaxy beat Wellington Phoenix 4-1 in the second and final match of their tour Down Under.
David Beckham arrived in New Zealand on Thursday to a rapturous 'pop star' style reception but having wooed Australia will find football a harder sell in a rugby-mad country.
They've only lived in the U.S. for four months, but David Beckham says his kids are already starting to sound like natives.
David Beckham overcame an injury scare to score a trademark free-kick, but his LA Galaxy side were beaten 5-3 by Sydney FC in an exhibition match on Tuesday.
David Beckham still hopes to collect his 100th England cap and is keen to play a part in his country's bid to qualify for the next World Cup, in South Africa in 2010.
Hours after saluting David Beckham as one of the world's best right-sided midfielders, England coach Steve McClaren left the iconic football star out of their crucial Euro 2008 qualifier against Croatia on Wednesday night.
Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays, click here.
David Beckham has returned to the England side after a four-game absence for Friday's friendly international with Austria in Vienna.
Victoria Beckham's transition from wife and mother to Posh Spice has created a stir at home.
He's buff. He's beautiful. He's ... nearly naked?
The night was quite chilly (by Southern California standards, at least). But that didn't stop more than 5,500 fans from coming out to support David Beckham's L.A. Galaxy and a slew of soccer-loving celebs like Superman Returns's Brandon Routh and Without a Trace's Anthony LaPaglia for their charity match Sunday.
As if getting a new home weren't enough, the family featured on this Sunday's episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition also got something extra – a meeting with their favorite soccer player, David Beckham.
Hollywood has been enamored of David Beckham since his arrival in L.A. in July. Now, they get to take a crack at him on the soccer field.
David Beckham is "incredibly disappointed for" the Los Angeles Galaxy, which failed to make the playoffs this year, he says in a new post on his blog.
If David Beckham feels the need – the need for speed – he has an offer on the table from his good pal Tom Cruise.
David Beckham's first season with the Los Angeles Galaxy ended quietly on Sunday night, with his team falling short of the playoffs and its megawatt superstar failing to take a single shot on goal in his five games played.
David Beckham was upstaged by a former Manchester United colleague as Chicago Fire beat the Los Angeles Galaxy 1-0 to earn the MLS's eighth and final playoff spot.
David Beckham, remember him?
The most talked-about gimpy ankle in L.A. seems to be improving, as David Beckham has revealed on his blog that he hopes to suit up for the Galaxy's game against Red Bull New York on Thursday night.
David Beckham made his long-awaited return to action with the Los Angeles Galaxy as he came on as a second half substitute in their 1-1 home draw against the New York Red Bulls.
David Beckham says his children love America and his wife has been warmly welcomed here.
Time to mend it like Beckham.
David Beckham will miss England's two European Championship qualifiers in September after suffering a sprained medial collateral ligament in his right knee, which will sideline him for six weeks.
David Beckham fears he could be sidelined for up to six weeks with a knee injury picked up playing for Los Angeles Galaxy, leaving England coach Steve McClaren with another headache ahead of crucial Euro 2008 qualifiers.
CARSON, Calif. -- It was an inaugural SuperLiga final that had just about everything. A surreal last-second bicycle-kick equalizer. A goalkeeper (to say nothing of the re-injured David Beckham) fighting back post-game tears. A money penalty-taker failing to convert the trophy-winning spot kick. And, not least, a press conference carpeted by F-bombs from (who else?) a mild-mannered Canadian.
David Beckham, fatigued after playing three games in six days, has been ruled out of Los Angeles Galaxy's Major League Soccer (MLS) match against Colorado Rapids on Sunday.
Just six hours after landing from London, David Beckham was at the center of a mid-field scuffle in Los Angeles.
Globe-trotting David Beckham tasted defeat for the second time in two days when he played for the full 90 minutes in Los Angeles Galaxy's 3-0 Major League Soccer loss to Chivas USA in California.
The smallest dinosaur could reach speeds of nearly 40 miles per hour and even the lumbering Tyrannosaurus rex would have been able to outrun most modern-day sportsmen, according to research published on Wednesday.
David Beckham prefers his native soil - literally.
David Beckham made his first Major League Soccer start, Giants Stadium filled back up for soccer and the Galaxy and Red Bulls filled the net at a near-record pace.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Five things we learned from the electric 5-4 victory by the New York Red Bulls against the Los Angeles Galaxy here on Saturday:
Football star David Beckham remains confident that the extensive travel required for his international duty will not negatively affect his performances for club or country.
U.S. international Landon Donovan knows a thing or two about soccer at the highest level but even he was stunned by David Beckham's five-star performance in his first start for Los Angeles Galaxy.
David Beckham scored his first goal Wednesday as an L.A. Galaxy player.
In her first blog update since becoming a resident of Los Angeles less than a month ago, Victoria Beckham has already started to talk like a Valley Girl.
After a frustrating start to his American career because of a nagging ankle injury, sexy soccer star David Beckham has finally made his league debut - and flashed a bare chest to cheering fans.
Despite playing for only about 13 minutes in his first game for the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team on Saturday, David Beckham helped draw a record 1.5 million viewers to the TV broadcast.
Forget Les Deux and Teddy's: Hollywood's hottest celeb hangout Saturday night was the Home Depot Center in nearby Carson, Calif., as Katie Holmes, Eva Longoria, Mary-Kate Olsen and others showed up to watch David Beckham's American soccer debut with the Los Angeles Galaxy.
CARSON, Calif. -- Sixteen minutes, 12 touches -- and 19 cameras beaming every gimpy stride to a worldwide audience.
CARSON, Calif. -- Phil Anschutz, the reclusive billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Galaxy, hasn't given an interview in more than 30 years. But when I asked his top lieutenant, Tim Leiweke, last month if Anschutz had said anything to him lately about his soon-to-arrive superstar, David Beckham, the three-word response came instantly:
CARSON, Calif. -- The circus is starting to take its toll on the Los Angeles Galaxy.
Cuauht�moc Blanco is not David Beckham. Blanco is not posing shirtless with his almost-nude wife next to him. The Chicago-bound standout is not an A-list star whose fame transcends soccer, nor will his looks grab the attention of teenage girls and soccer moms. But he too is coming to America.
Hot on the stiletto heels of wife Victoria Beckham's NBC special, David Beckham is about to get his own TV show.
David Beckham could only sit and watch as his new club, the Los Angeles Galaxy, slumped to an unimpressive 3-0 defeat against Mexicans Tigres UANL in a friendly in California.
If you were going to see your first game at Old Trafford, the fabled Manchester United home known as the Theater of Dreams, you couldn't do much better than the night of April 23, 2003, when Man United met Real Madrid in a Champions League showdown for the ages.
David Beckham's highly anticipated American soccer debut for the Los Angeles Galaxy may not happen Saturday as scheduled, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Football superstar, celebrity, fashion icon, multimillion-dollar heartthrob. Now, David Beckham is headed for the Hollywood Hills as he takes his game to U.S. Major League Soccer.
CARSON, Calif. -- As David Beckham took a seat in one of the luxury suites at Home Depot Center, moments after walking off the confetti-littered field, a wide smile came over his face when he was asked about the auspicious day he chose to be introduced as the newest member of the Los Angeles Galaxy.
CARSON, Calif. -- As he begins his New World Adventure in U.S. soccer, David Beckham can't help but smile when the childhood memories of his first American sojourn come tumbling back into his consciousness. But here's an unexpected twist: Beckham's initial taste of the U.S. had a distinctly Mexican-American flavor.
As B-Day looms, it is perhaps impertinent but necessary to wonder whether, in purely footballing terms, the Los Angeles Galaxy actually matter.
The David Beckham brand hits the U.S. market this month.
The most telling comment about David Beckham came from the late George Best, Beckham's most illustrious predecessor in the No. 7 jersey of Manchester United.
David Beckham trained with Real Madrid again Friday and is expected to start in the title-deciding match against Mallorca -- his final game before joining the Los Angeles Galaxy.
World Sport reporter Pedro Pinto reflects on David Beckham's' workrate and dedication.
When David Beckham made the shock announcement in January that he was joining Major League Soccer side LA Galaxy at the end of the season, it appeared that the midfielder's days as a leading figure on the world football stage were well and truly over.
David Beckham trained with Real Madrid on Thursday and has been passed fit for his final game with the Spanish giants at home to Mallorca on Sunday.
Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon wants U.S. bound David Beckham to stay with the Spanish giants as they contemplate a first Primera Liga success in four years.
David Beckham set up two goals to steer England to a morale-boosting 3-0 win over Estonia on Wednesday that put their Euro 2008 qualifying campaign firmly back on track.
Brazil substitute Diego snatched an injury-time equalizer to earn a 1-1 Wembley draw on Friday but the England fans still went home happy from the new stadium after a memorable comeback from former captain David Beckham.
David Beckham's return to the English national team for Friday's game against Brazil and next Wednesday's vital Euro 2008 qualifier in Estonia has dominated the headlines this week. The setting couldn't be more fitting: The return of the glamour boy of English football in a glamour friendly against Brazil at the new Wembley Stadium.
MADRID, Spain -- A funny thing happened here on David Beckham's path to European soccer irrelevance.
Los Angeles Galaxy general manager Alexei Lalas has said he is concerned David Beckham's recall to the England team might interfere with his appearances for his new Major League Soccer club.
Real Madrid coach Fabio Capello said on Sunday that neither he nor the club would consent to releasing David Beckham early so that he could join his new American club Los Angeles Galaxy.
David Beckham's injury layoff continued as he was again left out of the Real Madrid squad for their Primera Liga clash with Osasuna on Sunday.
If Major League Soccer were to pinpoint the moment it hit its target audience, it would be around 12:45 a.m. EST on Jan. 17.
Manchester United turned David Beckham into an international superstar and on Tuesday he bid an emotional farewell to Old Trafford before he quits European soccer for the United States.
David Beckham will be sidelined for at least a month of his remaining time at Real Madrid after damaging the lateral ligament in his right knee.
Former England captain David Beckham believes he can re-establish himself in the national team despite plying his trade in Major League Soccer with Los Angeles Galaxy.
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