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Source: latimes.com
David Beckham stands alone as a Major League Soccer superstar.
The Galaxy star is a huge draw home and away, but he and others see his impact as more long-term, and probably includes influencing youngsters in the U.S. to play and excel.
So here we are, one year later, and David Beckham is strolling across the grass toward a handful of writershuddled like obedient sheep waiting to hear his every word.
It is a Beckham "availability" moment, in the words of the Galaxy, which, one year into the English midfielder's five-year-tenure in Major League Soccer, still has not quite grasped how to handle its one and only superstar.
The captain of England calls the shots, not the team that pays him $6.5 million a year to lead it to a .500 record.
And so, with the morning's training session done, Beckham approaches. He smiles. He almost always smiles. It is a tactic meant to disarm, and it invariably works. Twelve months into his MLS stay, he has yet to be asked a difficult or discomforting question.
There have been many ludicrous and simpering ones, but none that raise the hackles...." latimes.com
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They paid a fortune to get him to Los Angeles. He also has an option to get part of the team in 5 years if he performs.