Soccer Star David Beckham Arrives in NYC

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British tabloid mainstay, fashion icon, and fabled footballer David Beckham will make his first appearance in New York City today since the former captain of England's national team started playing with the Los Angeles Galaxy. He is spending the afternoon in Harlem coaching the 33 teenage members of the FC Harlem Lions, intending to highlight the need for more soccer fields in the neighborhood.

Tomorrow the captain of the Galaxy will take the field along with his teammates to face the New York Red Bulls at Giants Stadium in New Jersey. Dan Courtemanche, the spokesman for Major League Soccer, noted that "What Mr. Beckham does tonight is up to him," so be on the lookout for Becks, and perhaps his wife (formerly Posh Spice) Victoria, on the town this evening.

For those nostalgic for Beckham's days captaining playing for powerhouse club Manchester United, Premier League play started for the season this month. A list of area pubs to catch European football is featured at the soccer fanzine site First Touch Online. Beckham is familiar with some other NYC athletes: Two weeks ago, he took a series of awkward-looking pictures with Yankees Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez.

Photograph by Kyle Gustafson/DCist

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competitive sports are gay

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1- if so, why do soccer players have the hottest wives in the sports world?

http://www.cristianoronaldoforum.com/showthread.php?t=1926

Compare that to Andy Pettite's slumpbuster of a wife:

http://images.usatoday.com/sports/nfl/_photos/2004-01-26-sara.jpg

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This article fails to mention that 65,000 tickets have already been sold for the match as of Friday afternoon.

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Btw the article erroneously refers to Becks as the captain of Manchester United. While he was captain of the England team, he was not captain of United…

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They are all a bunch of hooligans. Soccer is a game for immigrants and third world people.

You think his wife is hot? You must like plastic boobs on a stick. She's totally articficial!

Typo correction: artificial

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She's an imbecile to boot. There are plenty of gorgeous, smart American women.

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"There are plenty of gorgeous, smart American women."

And theyre all in LA- not New York. Posh spice is one of the uglier Soccer Wives out there, but even she is hotter than 99% of the scary women in New York

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whatever, #11, we all know you're sitting there eating a hot pocket, typing with one hand, sitting on a folding chair, with your fat hairy ass hanging out of the stretched out elastic of your hanes tighty whities that your grandma bought for you 5 years ago for x-mas

why don't you go jack off to some internet porn and then practice what you're going to say when the cute girl at Starbucks asks you what you want to drink?

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@ 12- I already know there are tons of ugly men in New York. We were talking about all the ugly women in New York.

And all the models you see in NYC at fashion week are all from Europe and Brazil, and probably notches on David Beckhams bedpost.

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"Btw the article erroneously refers to Becks as the captain of Manchester United. While he was captain of the England team, he was not captain of United…"

to #6...i don't think that the writer had erroneously typed Becks as captain of Manchester United. maybe he just wanted to emphasize on Becks' time playing in Manchester United before, and not on his time as a captain there..because Becks WAS A MANCHESTER UNITED'S CAPTAIN for 4/5 years out of 15 years he had played there (i think since 1999/2000 until 2003)..just b4 he went to Madrid. so my point is..while ManU won the TREBLE in 1999, he was their captain then (if he was in that year), and surely while ManU won other cups/championships in 2000-2003, Becks was their winning captain then as well as England's.

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