David Beckham

By NathanHJ And those words are: Western Conference Champions! In another step in the worst-to-first journey that MLS Coach of the Year Bruce Arena has taken the team on, the Los Angeles Galaxy turned away a stiff challenge from the Houston Dynamo in 30 minutes of extra time with a 2-0 scoreline. Jen pu...

By NathanHJ The big advantage the Galaxy has is playing at home at the Home Depot Center. The wide field will help neutralize the Dynamo’s passing game, honed in the narrow confines of Robertson Stadium, and the home crowd will give the team a psychological edge. The unrelenting team-oriented defense...

By NathanHJ Overall, it was a deserving victory over a tough opponent. One made sweeter because of who that opponent was. Once again, the Galaxy own Chivas USA. Friday at 8PM the Galaxy face Houston in the Western Conference championship match. This one’s going to be even tougher.

By NathanHJ Yes, Landon Donovan and David Beckham played in their first playoff game together and played adequately. But neither one of them put their stamp on the game and were, for the most part, marked out of having an impact. Donovan’s miscommunication in the midfield led to the first Chivas goal, a...

By NathanHJ It has been three long and, to be blunt, disastrous years since the last time the Galaxy played post-season futbol. That year they peaked at the right time after basically backing in to the playoffs and ended up taking the MLS Cup from New England on Pando Ramirez’s only goal of the season.

By NathanHJ And those words are: Western Conference champions! In a fitting display on their home turf, the Los Angeles Galaxy put the finishing touches on a worst-to-first regular season for 2009. After a horrific 2008, the culmination of years of front-office incompetence and on-field underach...

By NathanHJ Though, of course, it’s not like Houston sucks or anything. Not only have they put together their customary solid MLS run, they are still alive in the CONCACAF Champions League after a 2-1 defeat of Monterrey. And they’re pretty deep as well – losing Eddie Robinson, Craig Waibel, Cory Ashe a...

By jen America! F$#& yeah! With all the scoring coming in the second half, we have clinched World Cup Qualifying with a decisive 3-2 victory over Honduras. Goal.com MLS Talk Official LA Galaxy blog New York Times Huffington Post Soccer by Ives Yippee!

By NathanHJ And those word are: Gutting it out. The Los Angeles Galaxy took three points at home from a determined Fire team populated with a large number of replacement for injured players. As has been the case all season, the defense provided the base from which the Galaxy was able to generate just enou...

By NathanHJ The Los Angeles Galaxy takes on the Chicago Fire in a battle of second place teams on Friday, October 2 at 8PM. The game will be on ESPN2. On paper this should be a tough, hard fought match between two teams that need to be peaking right now if they have hopes of going deep in [...] The Los Angeles Galax...

By NathanHJ Craig Merz with the MLSNet Galaxy perspective Game recap from Goal.com The Sports Network in the Centre Daily Times AP in the Los Angeles Times Game notes from the official LA Galaxy blog Locker room reactions from the official LA Galaxy blog

By NathanHJ Game notes from the party line (official Galaxy blog) Game quotes from the party line (official Galaxy blog) The Associated Press Zac Lee Rigg at Goal.com with a focus on David Beckham Jeffrey King at MLSNet with the Galaxy perspective Grahame Jones at the Los Angeles Times

By NathanHJ And he was joined there by David Beckham. Lackluster passing, cutesy passing, tepid set pieces, off-target crosses, it was a night of frustration and mediocrity from the league’s highest paid player. I’m willing to give jet lag a bit of the blame here, but mentally it wasn’t a sharp perform...

By NathanHJ This week, nominally a home game after a week of only the one game, the Galaxy faced a Chivas USA team just off a 4-0 pasting in Sandy, UT, but that has substantially revamped itself during the summer transfer window after a season-long injury epidemic had decimated its roster.

By NathanHJ Aaaaaand we’re back with Los Angeles Galaxy analysis. My apologies to everyone for disappearing just as the Galaxy does three games in a week. I was at a conference in Pittsburgh then in my hometown in North Carolina for some family-time as we saw my grandmother off into the next stage of her j...

By jen David Beckham plays for the Los Angeles Galaxy. Sort of. He’ll return from AC Milan in July. But David Beckham is not who this team is about – at least we hope not anymore. In his first full year as General Manager and Head Coach, Bruce Arena is trying to build a competitive [...] David Beckham plays fo...

By NathanHJ Everyone’s favorite biggest star in the world of futbol, David Beckham has finally, officially, completed the switch to AC Milan, ending the soap opera in which millions of electrons were killed to provide up-to-the second speculation, rumor, and (mis)information. As about a trillio...

By NathanHJ After three years (including the 2009 season) David Beckham leaves the Galaxy and MLS for the greener pastures of AC Milan and Serie A. As numerous sources are reporting (but my favorite is the crusty reportage coming from LA Times futbol guru Grahame Jones - see today’s story here, which h...

By NathanHJ There is something about the PanPacific “Championship” that is the epitome of AEG’s management of the Galaxy since the death of Doug Hamilton. It’s a trumped-up tournament featuring clubs from mostly secondary Asian leagues, some of whom, at least, _are_ actual champions, and the LA Ga...

By NathanHJ Case in point: Will Golden Balls still be with us come March 9? The Galaxy and AEG say “Yes”. AC Milan says, “What? We’re not yet begun to negotiate.” Midfielders: David Beckham, Leonard Griffin, Chris Klein, Eddie Lewis, Josh Tudela, Kyle Patterson, Stefani Miglioranzi

By NathanHJ Well, kids, it looks like we are going from rumor to reality in the Becks-to-AC Milan sweepstakes. David Beckham has now said publicly that he wants to stay at AC Milan and has directed his lawyers to work out a deal between MLS and Milan. The good folks at MLS Rumors have the video.

By NathanHJ Probably because it basically is a completely different team when you put in Landon Donovan, David Beckham and Eddie Lewis all at the same time. With a credible threat from the left for the first time since… since… Herculez Gomez’s one good season? People who know this team better than I can...

By jen Week 2: David Beckham (Los Angeles Galaxy) Week 4: Landon Donovan (Los Angeles Galaxy) Week 5: Landon Donovan (Los Angeles Galaxy) Week 6: David Beckham (Los Angeles Galaxy) Week 7: Robbie Rogers (Columbus Crew) Week 8: Edson Buddle (Los Angles Galaxy)

By Laurie But new England coach Fabio Capello has now said, Not so fast. According to BBC Sport: The former Manchester United star, who played under Capello for a season at Real Madrid, is convinced he has done all he can to prove he is still worth his place.

By Laurie But it is pretty humorous to seen him ripped apart by a British tabloid. Kind of like listening to Dr. Frankenstein carry on about what a horrible creature that monster is. Because what might Beckham be like if it not for the tabloids that created “Posh and Becks”?

By Laurie UPDATE: This just in on Thursday afternoon, more audio interviews including David Beckham, Landon Donovan and Alexi Lalas (Beckham cracks me up. Always so tactful, even when talking about field turf! And the Lalas #1 tape discusses the coacing situation with Ruud and Cobi.)

By Laurie The game? Oh yeah, that Beckham guy can play soccer, too. On the game’s first goal off a free kick in the eighth minute, he bent it like Beckham to teammate Edson Buddle in the eighth minute. The Thunder tied it in the 47th minute on a goal by Sebastien Letoux. Los Angeles claimed the inaugural Cop...

By Laurie So I was visiting the Galaxy website today and stumbled across this little paragraph from our weekly update, courtesy of "Los Angeles Galaxy Media Relations:" David Beckham and Landon Donovan will be flying back from Europe to ... So I was visiting the Galaxy website today and stumbled acro...