Beckham's Freak Injury; Who's At Fault?

(AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)

The pressure on David Beckham and his Los Angeles Galaxy teammates has been huge and unbearable. The fan fare that has been brought to the organization has brought in the "big" money, but at what expense to next season?

The LA Galaxy is not playing as a team and is being challenged with just focusing on the game. There's a lot of talent on the team, but the passion to win doesn't appear consistent and players' heavy reliance on a few stars has ended up weakening the team.

Who's to blame?
Let's not blame David Beckham for anything either. Yes, he knows how to market himself but he came here with good intentions to raise the awareness of the MLS, play soccer and build a soccer transition program for youth moving from U17 through college and into MLS contention.

The greed from the Galaxy organization to force him to play has backfired for the player and team. Now, David is out for close to the rest of the season. I don't know who made the call, but I hope someone learned something.

BTW, those who say Beckham is weak and that he's getting paid enough to take the pain, obviously have never played soccer with an ankle or knee injury. I'd suggest they try it and do it for 45 minutes at a time.

It's "Fight Night" at the Home Depot Center

Chivas USA defeats the Los Angeles Galaxy 3-0

Sorry for the late post everyone, but I guess I'm still not over the pain of last week's loss to Chivas USA (0-3). In fact, the whole night was full of pain.

It's becoming habit that the Home Depot Center is putting cars where ever possible. I had a preferred parking pass and after taking 40 minutes to get off the freeway off ramp to the stadium entrance, they closed the yellow gates (where preferred parking enters) saying it was full and made the line of cars, led by me, go park in BFE for the same price!

After sitting down at the 38th minute of the first half at a 0-0 tie I had high hopes. Then, a little fight broke out (photo above) with Beckham. It was nice to see David get a little scrappy. Shows that he can hang here in LA and wear that blue Crypt captain's band proudly.

Then, the second half began. I don't get the substitutions coach Yallop is made. Moving Xavier up to leave unskilled defenders in the back (Veris among others) cost us the game. It was THE WORST defensive playing I've seen by the LAG. It sucked.

If this wasn't enough, we (the fans) sat on the sidelines and watched Beckham in serious pain play all 90 minutes. It came down to the fact that David would kick the ball away from himself just to be taken out of play so he could rest.

Lalas and AEG need to rethink the money machine they call David Beckham and start considering Beckham the player and the team.

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Beckham Proves Himself to Impatient MLS Fans

The Los Angeles Galaxy advance to the SuperLiga finals after defeating DC United 2-0

VIDEO - View Beckham's free kick goal!

At work, at home, out with friends or at the Indoor Soccer Arena I play at, all I hear about from new to the bandwagon LA Galaxy fans is how disappointed they've been with David Beckham. They know he came over to the MLS with an existing injury, but that was ignored through all the Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood fan fair that the news media is so good about exploiting.

So here we are, after weeks of me defending Beckham's injury to my friends (and I'm actually a Donovan and Xavier fan) we see the $250 million dollar man show us what we already knew was coming - pure genius.

Last nights display by Beckham with both his patented free-kick and assist to Donovan shows that our deficient midfield is now prepared to serve the ball to our strikers.

We all know how dangerous Donovan is on breakaways and Beckham's pass to Landon shows that these two can help put wins back on the board to get the LAG into the playoffs. Landon had been struggling with his roving role in the midfield and on the wing these past few games. His strength is playing as a center striker and hopefully our coach, Frank Yallop will back down from forcing Pavon into that position.

So lets pray that David's ankle will remain healthy enough to play the rest of the season. Our next game in New York on Saturday will be a tell-tale sign if Beckham can keep the momentum going.

Go Galaxy!

Photos courtesy of AP & ESPN Soccernet

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