BEFORE 5,000 SPECTATORS AND HUNDREDS OF JOURNALISTS
The English David Beckham was presented/displayed like new player of Los Angeles Galaxy, in a spectacular act in the turf of the stage Home Depot, that from now on will be its new house. The event raised a unknown sense of expectancy, with 5,000 spectators in the launching slips and more requests of credentials even that in the Superbowl.
His old president in Real Madrid assured that he was going away to the United States to be actor, and the presentation of David Beckham with Los Angeles Galaxy was to the height: thousands of spectators, photographers and journalists, great authorities, music to all volume, confeti and its wife Victory putting as in the red carpet of Hollywood.
Beckham, that will take number 23 like in its last club, Real Madrid, assured today on the turf of the stage Home Depot that it tries to turn the five years of the contract “and perhaps some more”. Surrounded by confeti, that was the phrase that more vítores raised between the public and smiles between the leaders under a powerful sun in Carson, closely together of the greater metropolis of California.
The English will be with great difference the player better paid of the American league of soccer (MLS), with 6.5 million annual dollars, in front of the Mexican White Cuauthémoc, of Kids the USA, with 2.7 million, according to the television network ESPN. He is approximately just like he received in Real Madrid, where nevertheless is improbable that, to his 31 years, he had obtained a contract of five years.
“I always lived to confront challenges in my race and new experiences in my personal life. In our life everything is perfect”, assured the Briton, that it did not stop to smile at any moment. “It is an honor and an enormous satisfaction for me and my family”.
5,000 spectators in the launching slips
The act raised a sense of expectancy unknown in Los Angeles, with 5,000 spectators in the launching slips and more requests of credentials even that the Superbowl. They did not lose the presentation the commissioner of the MLS, Don Garber, nor the mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, who got dressed in the t-shirt of his new citizen and she forgot for the first time in one week of the profile under which she decided to adopt from the announcement of its romance with a television journalist.
Until the soccer player did not appear on the turf adorned with an impeccable gray suit, the unquestionable star of the event was its wife Victory. With a dress fucsia and enormous sun glasses, “Posh Spice” chatted animatedly with its assistants, while from time to time it turned around towards the photographers to put. New gesture, new face, seconds, and returned to the conversation.
It will be a constant in his stay in the United States, where Victory wants to recover its profile of megaestrella. “ Who will be the true star, David or Victoria? ”, a ESPN commentator asked itself.
Nor a Spanish word
Beckham did not speak a word in Spanish in its speech, a language that does not dominate in spite of its four years in Madrid. Yes Garber did, in deference to the many Hispanic followers of Los Angeles Galaxy and of all the MLS in the United States.
The peculiar moment of the act arrived when Beckham talked about in English to soccer like “football”, the term used in Great Britain, instead of “soccer”, the used one in the United States. “Pardon, I suppose that already I will be accustomed”, it affirmed ashamed. It is worth to him more, because its main function is to turn “to soccer” in a as popular sport as the baseball or the basketball in the United States. That is the true reason for the draftee of Beckham, and the challenge is extraordinary: in he himself persistence they failed the past in stars of the stature of Pelé, Johan Cruyff or Franz Beckenbauer.
1.000 million entrance
The nobody hidden enormous component of marketing of the operation. “It is an historical day for the club, the league and soccer in the United States”, affirmed the president of the Galaxy, Alexi Lalas. Its club will invest about to 250 million dollars in the draftee and the promotion, but it hopes to enter about 1,000 million. So far, already 250,000 t-shirts with the name of Beckham were sold.
“We have the luck to count more on one of the recognized personages of the world, a great sportsman and a great person. It is an enormous passage for the promotion of soccer in this country”, added Garber. Beckham also assumes its role. “Potentially soccer can be here as great as it is it in the rest of the world. Luckyly I am going to be able to be part of this during five years and perhaps some more”, sentenced.
And with respect to the past, only one brief mention. “In my life I played for two of the most important clubs of the world, the Manchester United and Real Madrid, and eleven years for my pa ís, para el que sigo jugando", agregó. Pero todo eso ya no cuenta, porque ahora ya está en Hollywood: Casa de 22 millones de dólares en Beverly Hills, Tom Cruise de vecino y un equipo trabajando para su lucimiento. El primer estreno será el 21 de julio, en un amistoso contra el Chelsea.