The Beckham Experiment: How the World's Most Famous Athlete Tried to Conquer America

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Authors
Grant Wahl
Publisher
New York : Three Rivers, 2010
Year Published
2009
Copies
1
Call Number
GV492.7B432 W34 2009
ISBN Number
9780307408594
Description
In 2007, David Beckham, the golden boy of soccer, shocked the international sports world when he signed a five-year contract with an American team, the Los Angeles Galaxy. Under the direction of his manager, Simon Fuller, the mastermind behind American Idol and the Spice Girls, Beckham was ready for a monumental challenge and a risky adventure-ready, as Fuller put it, to earn his stripes Stateside. Could he pull off what no player had ever accomplished (including Pele in the 1970s) and transform soccer into one of the most popular spectator sports in America? I