I decided to take a week off after Miami FC's season ended. But now I'm back and as promised here is some more Miami MLS info. I'll start off with an anonymous comment made on the last post written by Burrito below. It states that David Beckham is interested in starting an MLS team in Miami.

A source said: "Beckham does not want to go into management when his playing career ends and is now focused on owning a club.

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UM02 May want to get ready to welcome Becks...
Could David Beckham teaming up with the ever vocal, Joey Saputo? Strange as that may sound according to at least one insider the two have spoken of the possibility.
Courtesy of Jack Bell's Goal Blog at the New York Times:

And according to a person with knowledge of Beckham's planning who spoke on condition of anonymity because of concerns about jeopardizing any potential deal, Beckham and his management team at 19 Entertainment (led by Simon Fuller) and Creative Artists Agency (led by Jeff Frasco) are interested in partnering with Joey Saputo, the owner of the Montreal Impact (the club now plays in United Soccer Leagues' First Division, one tier down from M.

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Here at the BigSoccer World Journalism Headquarters and Storm Door Company, where we leave no stone unturned in our pursuit of truth, justice and a decent pastrami on rye, we like to think of ourselves as chameleons. (Except for Ollie, of course. He's a karma chameleon. He comes and goes.)
So when it's important - or when we've got nothing else to talk about - we're more than happy to cross reportorial boundaries and cover items of interest from fields besides soccer. Click to continue reading...

The match between LA Galaxy and Milan was always, in view of the recent goings-on between David Beckham and the Italian giants, going to be something of a powder keg, and the global media reaction to the events at the decidedly unromantically named Home Depot Center has said a lot about how Beckham has managed to control the public perception of him.

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If you were an LA Galaxy fan in 2007 and 2008 like I was, reading Grant Wahl's "The Beckham Experiment" is a bit like looking at old photos of a much-anticipated yet ultimately tragic vacation: "Here's the plane ride. Here's the waterfall... And here's Aunt Marge, right before she got eaten by the crocodile. Click to continue reading...

Failure is almost always a more interesting subject for a book than success. Grant Wahl did not originally intend to spend 16 months following the dramatic disaster that was the David Beckham Experiment in America: but when Beckham's celebrated arrival as the saviour of American soccer degenerated into a farce of injuries and infighting at the Galaxy, the juicy tale of how the biggest investment in American soccer history resulted in one of the worst team meltdowns ever in MLS became the story he had to follow all the way through.

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I enjoyed it, and I suspect any hardcore MLS fan would as well. All the biggest revelations have already been publicized, but there's plenty of interesting anecdotes and many details about the LA Galaxy power players. Those details are the reason to read this book (such as how Alexi Lalas vetoed a proposed Peter Vagenas for Kyle Beckerman trade), as everyone who follows American soccer already knows how the story goes. Click to continue reading...

The Beckham Experiment arrived via FedEx earlier this afternoon. My advance copy arrives one day before the book goes on sale. Oh well, I'm just a lowly blogger chick. *wink*

I'll be reading through and sharing thoughts as I do. It has been bumped to the top of my reading list but will still take me several days to finish.

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