Beckham returns to AC Milan
AC Milan have confirmed that David Beckham, currently playing for LA Galaxy in the MLS, will go back to the Rossoneri in January. David said this about his return to AC Milan.

"I had to give myself the best chance to play in the World Cup, playing on loan with Milan will help me do that.

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Supposedly he'll be back in mid-July 2010, after the World Cup concludes.

He'll join Milan Dec. 28 after the Galaxy's post-season tour and remain with the Italian club through the end of their season in May.

"After the wonderful experience of last season we are very happy to see David Beckham again wearing the red and black colors," said Adriano Galliani, Vice President and CEO of AC Milan.

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by FRANCO PANIZO

Los Angeles, be prepared to say goodbye to David Beckham...again.

The Los Angeles Galaxy have given� Beckham permission to work out a loan deal for the winter transfer window in January. The loan is expected to last until July to give Beckham the best possibility of making the England squad for the 2010 World Cup in June.

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by FRANCO PANIZO

Los Angeles, be prepared to say goodbye to David Beckham...again.

The Los Angeles Galaxy have given� Beckham permission to work out a loan deal for the winter transfer window in January. The loan is expected to last until July to give Beckham the best possibility of making the England squad for the 2010 World Cup in June.

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Manca poco ormai e David Beckham potr� festeggiare. L'esperto centrocampista inglese è desideroso di riabbracciare l'Italia e la Serie A con la maglia del Milan. Il matrimonio, il secondo dopo l'esperienza vissuta lo scorso anno, si far� , per il bene di tutti. La conferma arriva dai dirigenti della societ� , l'Aeg, che possiede il club californiano (i Galaxy) nel quale milita il britannico: "Apprezziamo molto quello che David sta facendo qui - ha dichiarato Tim Leiweke, direttore generale dell'Aeg - e ora vogliamo trovare un nuovo accordo con il Milan, lo facciamo per lui e per noi". Click to continue reading...

Los Angeles Galaxy star David Beckham has had a successful return to Major League Soccer this summer. Last winter, Beckham went on loan to AC Milan for the second half of the Serie A side which helped to keep him in form for the English National Team. There has been speculation about whether he will complete a similar move to improve his chances being on the World Cup Finals roster.

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It has been quite a full day for some, others are left catching up on all the twitter messages that were lost today. There are plenty of good links to discuss so let's not waste any more time with the formalities.

First up is the lovely discussion that will be on going for the next 20 or 30 years with Major League Soccer.

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The AEG prez wants the futures of David Beckham and Landon Donovan decided in the next two weeks:

LONDON (AP) -- The Los Angeles Galaxy want David Beckham's expected loan to AC Milan to be completed in the next two weeks so the deal doesn't distract from the team's bid for the MLS Cup.

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It's deja vu all over again; Los Angeles Galaxy chief Tim Leiweke is making noise that he wants the future of star midfielder David Beckham decided as soon as possible so as not to distract the club...

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Several bits of news to report on today. First from IMS partner site The Kartik Report. Kartik Krishnaiyer is stating this morning that he is being told from "sources close to the situation, that despite having the USSF, TOA, MLS and USL all meeting together, a solution is not at hand and may not be achieved this week.

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Several bits of news to report on today. First from IMS partner site The Kartik Report. Kartik Krishnaiyer is stating this morning that he is being told from "sources close to the situation, that despite having the USSF, TOA, MLS and USL all meeting together, a solution is not at hand and may not be achieved this week.

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Don Garber will address the "Leaders in Football" conference

Over the next two days, many of soccer's most influential executives from around the world will meet in London, England for the annual "Leaders in Football" conference. Included in that group are three representatives from the United States: Don Garber, MLS Commissioner and CEO; Sunil Gulati, USSF President; and Tim Leiweke, President and CEO of AEG.

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If there's still time this morning before they start the ESPN Paraplegics of the Future Games in your time zone, check out Sportscenter at around 34 minutes after the hour.
There's a fascinating interview with David Beckham, wearing Ringo Star's suit from the Shea Stadium concert in 1965. 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...

Ruud Gullit clearly didn't get it.
An advance copy of Grant Wahl's much talked about hardback landed in the MLSR mailbox today from publisher Crown Publishers. And we are currently pouring through it for over looked bits of juice and hilarity.
All week on MLSR we will post an interesting but perhaps overlooked excerpt of the book each day. Click to continue reading...

David Beckham.
He returns to the U.S. on July 11 and his MLS debut will be five days later in New York. He caught up with the lads at MLSnet.com and filled 'em in on his goings on.

"I'm committed to being one, an ambassador for the MLS and soccer in America, because I still believe that in 10, 15 years that this game will lift to the level where it can compete with some of the big teams in Europe and some of the big leagues in Europe," the midfielder said in an interview with MLSnet.

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Every once in awhile I get a google alert in my inbox that is so surreal I have to check the date to be sure it's not April 1.

This was one of those alerts.

Apparently Galaxy CEO Tim Leiweke will be speaking at the "Leaders in Football" Conference?

Yeah, seriously.

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Really Stupid Commentary, Part I
So because I'm apparently completely inept with a computer - I keep telling everyone, but they don't believe me - I spent the day unable to log on to BigSoccer.
So instead, in between dealing with the contractor who showed up at the house 1) with an incredibly hot mid-20's female "helper" in the tightest pants I've ever seen in my life and 2) stinking of booze, I looked at some other soccer websites. Click to continue reading...

Tim Leiweke, the mastermind behind the Designated Player rule, is lobbying for Major League Soccer to change its rulebook once again in the offseason, this time to allow DP signings to be exempt from the league's salary cap altogether.
Leiweke, the president and CEO of Anschutz Entertainment Group, says that by making a designated player signing count for $400,000 against a salary cap of just over $2 million, owners are being penalized for taking a big risk. Click to continue reading...

Bruce Arena is a tired retread who ran out of ideas ages ago. Bruce Arena is just the tonic the LA Galaxy needs to salvage its disastrous two and a half year run, during which it has managed to miss the play-offs in each year. Or both, depending upon whom you ask. Tim Leiweke, the President and the [. Click to continue reading...

I always like to read columnists' opinions on soccer, well, columnists who can take an objective look at a game or a hiring or a move or whatever without having to drop in a "soccer sucks" reference.
Anyway, I always enjoy reading colleague Jim Alexander whenever he has the chance to chime in on Chivas USA and/or the Galaxy. Click to continue reading...

What can I say, I'm not a fan of Bruce Arena. He did well with the US of course but he certainly is not the mastermind many made him out to be.
Here's my PE column that I wrote about Arena's supposed grandiose tenure with the US national team.
I guess I tried to counter some of what Tim Leiweke said about Arena, that the was the best coach in this country or something to the effect. Click to continue reading...

Looking to turn around their 2008 season, the Los Angeles Galaxy have turned to former U.S. Men's National Team coach Bruce Arena, who was unveiled as the team's new head coach and general manager on Monday. He will fill the roles of recently departed former GM Alexi Lalas and head coach Ruud Gullit, who left the team exactly one week ago. Click to continue reading...

It looks as if last night's 2-2 draw with Chivas USA will be the only game that Cobi Jones gets to be the head coach of the Los Angeles Galaxy. It has been confirmed by several sources that former U.S. Men's National Team coach Bruce Arena will take over the reins of the club, and should be on the sidelines for the Galaxy's next game, this coming Thursday against the Chicago Fire. Click to continue reading...

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The Bruce Arena era in Los Angeles is about to begin.

The Los Angeles Galaxy has hired Bruce Arena as the team's new head coach, multiple sources told SBI on Friday.

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The Bruce Arena era in Los Angeles is about to begin.

The Los Angeles Galaxy has hired Bruce Arena as the team's new head coach, multiple sources told SBI on Friday.

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It was a crazy night at Home Depot Center. Between an early goal, a rally, en elbow and subsequent broken jaw and a stoppage-time equalizer, the game had a little of everything.
Of course, the on-the-field action wasn't the only thing that made the night a crazy one.
First, celebrity chef Ingrid Hoffmann was there. Click to continue reading...

It seemed like it was just old friends hanging out more than two guys talking about what's wrong with the LA Galaxy. Well when you read comments made by AEG president Tim Leiweke about Bruce Arena during the ESPN broadcast of the match you may be able to read between the lines here. Leiweke met with [. Click to continue reading...

You'll probably see a lot of this circulating around today so I decided to post up the raw audio of it.
Here's audio of Tim Leiweke speaking to the media moments after he spoke to ESPN2 about all things Bruce Arena.
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AEG head honcho Tim Leiweke admits Los Angeles would love to hire former U.S. national team coach Bruce Arena. Click to continue reading...

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With the rumors of Bruce Arena joining the Los Angeles Galaxy growing by the day, the sight of Arena in the Galaxy box at Home Depot Center for Thursday night's match between the Galaxy and Chivas USA gave the talk even more life, but not nearly as much as comments made by AEG president Tim Leiweke about Arena during the ESPN broadcast of the match.

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We're finally online.
Chivas USA
Zack Thornton
Carey Talley
Bobby Burling,
Shavar Thomas
Francisco Mendoza
Keith Savage
Jesse Marsch
Paulo Nagamura
Daniel Paladini
Justin Braun
Atiba Harris
Galaxy
Steve Cronin
Chris Klein
Sean Franklin
Ante jazic
Greg Vanney
David Beckham
Alvaro Pires
Peter Vagenas
Ely Allen
Edson Buddle
Landon Donovan
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I want to go back over some things I wrote yesterday about the dismissal of Alexi Lalas by Los Angeles. I said only negative things. But he deserves a ton of credit for being one of the biggest supporters of soccer in American and MLS in particular. He has a voice and knows how to use it. The Press love to talk to him, and he never lets us down. Click to continue reading...

Now that it is The Day After, I have a few thoughts on what just happened.

Alexi Lalas' firing was at least a year too late and was a laughably inept hire in the first place. Lalas was good at many things, like being a salesman extraordinaire, doing color commentary, creating funny ESPN Sportscenter promotional spots, even defending for the US MNT.

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