Well besides Chivas USA and whoever the Galaxy are playing against, who can score goals in LA? The Galaxy sure don’t do a good job of doing that, but their newest teammate hopes to change that and coach Yallop thinks he has got the guy to do it.
Carlos Pavon signed with the Galaxy today and will be available for the rest of the season. The Honduras international striker recently struck 4 goals in a Gold Cup game vs Cuba which Honduras won 5-0.
Is Pavon going to be able to turn things around in LA?
On Saturday Tyrone Marshall and the Galaxy took on FC Dallas. Marshall made a hard tackle on Kenny Cooper which broke his leg, earned a red card for Marshall, and now today he’s been traded to Toronto FC for Edson Buddle.
Thanks a lot Tyrone, you broke the leg of one of my fantasy guys. He hadn’t been doing much for me recently anyway.
Now Marshall has to serve a 3 game suspension to start his career at Toronto FC. It isn’t the best way to start out at a new team, but it probably isn’t the worst either. Just a few weeks ago just starting a career at TFC would have been bad enough, but today it seems that would be a better deal than starting a career with the LA Galaxy. Maybe LA will get everything turned around in July? Maybe not?
After initially writing about the supposed escape clause in David Beckham’s contract with the LA Galaxy I found a more reliable source. In this article Lalas claims that there is no escape clause and he fully expects Beckham to show up on time just as expected before the comments from Real Madrid’s president earlier today.
Supposedly Beckham’s agent has said there is no intention to do anything other than come to the Galaxy after the season in Spain is over.
I guess that answers that.
There are rumors floating around that Beckham may have an escape clause of some sort in his contract with the Los Angeles Galaxy that would allow him to stay in Europe and basically cancel his contract with the Galaxy.
The president of Real Madrid was talking at the French Open final today about trying to persuade Beckham to stay at Real Madrid and not go to the Galaxy at the end of their season next weekend.
I have no idea how much of this is rumor and how much is real. I would think it is un-likely that Beckham would end up anywhere other than LA in July. What do you think? What are the chances he backs out of his Galaxy contract, if there even is any such escape clause?
Jimmy Conrad occasionally writes for ESPNsoccernet and it is usually pretty good stuff, but recently we got a great article in which Jimmy interviews his teammates asking them some “semi-serious” questions.
My favorite part of this is that they reveal what their team huddle pre-kickoff cheer is: “Taste the Rainbow”. Maybe some of you don’t know they used to have a pretty sweet rainbow on their jerseys. I looked for a good picture of one but couldn’t find one so I’ll take a pic of my old Wizards jersey and post it here later tonite.
Get the whole archive of everything JC has written for ESPNsoccernet.
Aparently an announcement is going to be made about “Copa Minnesota” which is supposed to take place in October at the Metrodome. This Copa Minnesota will feature the LA Galaxy along with another unspecified team. If Beckham is on the roster that could draw a large crowd. They are hoping to set the Minnesota attendance record which was 46 thousand and some back when Pele and the NY Cosmos played there.
A lot has been going on and I’ve not had a lot of time to write about it.
Bradley will drop the interm title and become full time US MNT coach. It is about time they give it to him. Good luck Bob, hopefully you do wonderful things with those boys!
LA Galaxy sign more European stars. Portuguese national defender Abel Xavier will be with the Galaxy and will be eligible to play after June 15th.
The parent company that owns Houston Dynamo are ready to start going after a downtown Houston 21-22K seat soccer specific stadium. They Dynamo currently play at the University of Houston.
The Columbus Crew are out of the US Open Cup at the hands of the Galaxy. Landon Donovan hooked up with Nate Jaqua for Jaquas first goal of the season and the game winner in the 1-0 victory for the Galaxy.
The Crew suffer the same fate as the Kansas City Wizards already have this year dropping out of the USOC early. Maybe it will allow them to focus on league play a little bit more. If last year is any sign of things to come, both of these teams will need that extra time to focus on league play.
Usually I wouldn’t even think again about stupid stuff like this, but the first 3 paragraphs really make me wonder what the hell they are thinking. Someone took a picture of David Beckham wearing a Cincinnati Reds baseball cap. The Sun says that must be “really difficult for hardcore LA Galaxy fans to swallow”, and that “it’s like a Liverpool fan wearing a rugby shirt from a Manchester team”.
I wonder how the hardcore Galaxy fan really feels about this? I have to think that if I were a hardcore Galaxy fan I’d feel the same as I do without being a hardcore Galaxy fan. I don’t care. Besides me not caring what Beckhams wears, other than what jersey he is wearing on game day, I hardly see Cincinnati and the big rivals of LA. Maybe there is some big rivalry there that I’m not aware about, but I doubt it.
What do Galaxy fans think?
The Vancouver Whitecaps have agreed to host the LA Galaxy in Vancouver for an exhibition after the date that David Beckham is set to join the Galaxy. The game is scheduled for October 3rd.
Beckham’s first appearance with the Galaxy could be another exhibition game in Canada when the Galaxy play Toronto FC on August 5th.
