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MY TWO CENTS WORTH January 11, 2007! Is this the day
that American soccer was ruined?
Until today, the highest paid
player in Major League Soccer
was Landon Donovan. Last year
he was paid $900,000.
DAVID BECKHAM Beckham announced that he has signed to play soccer in the U.S. He has been a very
great player on European teams Now
he will be paid 50 million dollars a year. There is no team in America with a total player salary expenditure that high. Thus disappears one of the unique qualities of American soccer.
Now the sport will become as money corrupted as most other American sports.
I am naive, I suppose, but also now very disappointed.
2 comments:
I'm not sure we should all commit hara-kiri just yet.
AFAIK, Addidas is underwriting the vast majority of Beckham's contract. So, neither the fans nor MLS will be absorbing much cost of bringing this potential cash cow to the US.
Besides, this is a PROFESSIONAL sport we are talking about. Talking about purity with regards to pro sports is a little like comparing bowl of ice cream with drops of turd in them. Sure, one bowl may have a smaller turd in it, but damn, it's still shit in ice cream.
I hope this works out for the MLS and brings it more visibility and in the long run, maybe a higer standard of play.
-Marty
Thanks Marty. You're undoubtedly right.
The thing that I expect is that the salaries will go sky high as a response to this and the league will go broke. Or, the sponsors will take over and we'll be stuck with an American brand of TV soccer which starts and stops like our football and baseball games, at the whim of the bill payers. You can't see a proper football game anymore on TV because it has to be paused every few minutes while they sell Ford trucks, and the game drags along like a croquet match.
Is baseball meant to be played with five minutes break each ten minutes?
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