Beckham’s Professionalism

After the failed UK to US David Beckham experiment, after the criticism David took from the book The Beckham Experiment, after failing to get his traitor way and completely turn his back on Major League Soccer you’d think Beckham would at least be on his best behavior in his first match back at his US team’s home stadium. Guess again, instead he returns to Los Angeles and yells at heckling fans while on the sidelines DURING the match.

Wow, how professional! What a way to make a comeback and make yourself look respectable in the American soccer fans eyes!

Beckham said he yelled that he wanted a handshake, but some of the fans said he yelled something completely different, escalating the situation. Either way Beckham was way out of line responding to the fans with words. Great athletes respond with actions and great play, not with childish rants and confrontations with drunken paying customers, who have a right to say what they like since they paid to be there by the way.

One guy Beckham yelled at tried running down from the stands to confront him but was arrested before he reached the field. There’s been no talks of Beckham being reprimanded at all for his actions.

That’s one of many reasons why soccer will never become a major sport in the US. A guy making more than twice as much as any other player in his sport, and who also plays just half a season won’t receive any repercussions for his actions. All it took was for Beckham to run and punch the guy in the face and it would have been the Indiana Pacer brawl in Detroit’s Palace, just the soccer version. I wish he did hit the guy so we could start calling him David Deck’em.

In the NFL, NBA, and MLB when a star player, or any player at that, acts like a child they are treated like one. The athletes are reprimanded for their actions and made to sit and take time out from playing. It’s interesting and exciting to wait and see what the commissioners reactions will be to the athlete’s actions. It shows the character of the sport, and MLS has no character except for the cartoon obnoxious animation that is David Beckham. Thanks MLS, you gave this rich snob no reprimands and have made me officially uninterested in soccer once again.