Former England captain David Beckham will leave Real Madrid at the end of the season and sign a five-year deal for MLS side Los Angeles Galaxy, he told Reuters on Thursday.

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MLS bites.

This is good news for American Soccer fans, even if it might not be a good career move for Beckham. I think it’s kind of risky. Hopefully, this will help inject some life into American Soccer, one of the few sports I like enough to consider watching. If it does, then that would be excellent. Maybe we can get some European coaches over here to liven up play and stop losing our talent to the Euro teams.

Then someday, omg, maybe even field a competitive team in the World Cup.

We’ll see. If any one person can give MLS a kick in the pants, it’s probably Beckham. That dude is fuckin’ poplar everywhere.

When most people who know me, think of a sports fan they don’t think of me. Unless they’re playing a game called “What’s the opposite of-”. However, I DO like some sports. They’re just not the most popular sports in the states, generally. Shocking.

Football, basketball and baseball (sorted in order of least to most boring) just do nothing for me. (Ok, I will admit, I did like the XFL. That was some fun football, even if those guys weren’t very good.) I like hockey and soccer, really. I don’t really get into hockey, though. I pay attention around Stanley Cup time and during the Olympics, but otherwise I let regular play slide on by. I’ve decided it’s because a season is just too much sports for me. Tournaments are much more interesting.

That’s why I’m pretty happy every four years when it’s FIFA World Cup time. That, and it reminds of the old AYSO days… hehe

Not only do I get to watch my favorite sport (soccer) in my favorite format (tournament) but it’s the most popular sport on the planet (even if it isn’t so popular in the U.S.) and thus it’s kind of this surreal thing when I become mainstream. I mean, I become one of the guys.

See, it may not be popular in the U.S. as a whole, but my department at work is an International group. Full of Irish, German, French, Italian, Danish, Chinese, Japanese, Russian and more. So around here, the World Cup is a BIG deal. And I’m part of it. Weird, huh? Also, kinda cool.

I’m pretty happy that it only happens once every four years though. I can’t take that kind of camaraderie too often.

Anyways, World Cup 2006 has started with in Germany, and the home team has already brought some pride to the fatherland by beating Costa Rica in the first game of the tournament.

Heh, don’t worry folks… my blog’s not going to turn into a World Cup blog or anything like that. I might drop in a few posts about any really interesting games, like I did in 2002.

Oh, and Mac OS X using World Cup fans should downlaod Germany 2006 X. Neat little app.

Woohoo! USA beat Mexico, 2-0!! Next we face Germany… tough team. But for now… WOOHOO! First victory for a US team in the World Cup elimination rounds! Ever! Rock!

The Ireland-Spain game wasn’t on TV this morning. WTF? That sucks. I was going to tape it and watch it at a reasonable hour but it wasn’t on… lame. Oh well, US-Mexico tonight!

Ok, back to chores…

WOW… the Sweden-Senegal World Cup game was awesome. Senegal won in the first sudden death period. Another major upset pulled off by the plucky Senegalese team who most people counted out before their first game (read: victory against France) in the WC. That sudden death period was some of the most fun soccer (yes, I am an American) to watch in the World Cup so far! Tomorrow morning, Ireland faces Spain… good luck Ireland. Then tomorrow night, the U.S. takes on Mexico… EEK.