David Beckham

By Nick Green After the wonderful experience of last season we are very happy to see David Beckham again wearing the red and black colors," said Adriano Galliani, Vice President and CEO of AC Milan. "We are confident his loan spell will not only improve Milan, it will help the player to take part in the Wor...

By Nick Green A playoff win against Chivas USA - and this shot - eluded the Galaxy and goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts Sunday at Home Depot Center. (AP Photo) So Chivas USA Coach Preki walks into the press conference after the game and virtually... A playoff win against Chivas USA - and this shot - eluded the Gala...

By Nick Green Chivas USA 1 Galaxy 2 Looks like we have the most entertaining game of the playoffs so far on display here this afternoon in Carson. The upper deck has filled in nicely, too, which means a good walk-up (must be... Chivas USA 1 Galaxy 2 The Galaxy have looked good going up the right hand side of the pa...

By Nick Green Sunny and 80 degrees here at the under populated Home Depot Center. Kick off has apparently been pushed back to 2:25 p.m. to accommodate TV if you're wondering. It's the same starting lineup this afternoon that both teams fielded for... Sunny and 80 degrees here at the under populated Home Depot C...

By Nick Green Game story. Notable: The Galaxy set a new club record tonight for shutouts - 12. Quite a turnaround from last year when the team had just two - a club-record low for a season. Quotable: Here's former Galaxy Coach... Game story. Here's former Galaxy Coach Frank Yallop on his old club's playoff outlo...

By Nick Green Galaxy 2 Earthquakes 0 After a rather listless first half, an end to end move by the Galaxy in the 77th minute has appeared to seal the win. Goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts started the play, getting the ball to David Beckham,... Galaxy 2 Earthquakes 0

By Nick Green David Beckham just missed scoring the first when he sent a trademark curling free kick (ill-advisedly given up by former boy wonder Bobby Convey) just outside the near post from about 28 yards in the 18th minute. Beckham also sent a 35-yard shot from open play in the 34th minute whistling ov...

By Nick Green Here's Arena's team: Donovan Ricketts, Sean Franklin, Gregg Berhalter, Omar Gonzalez, Todd Dunivant, Chris Birchall, David Beckham, Dema Kovalenko, Landon Donovan, Edson Buddle, Mike Magee. BTW, Gonzalez will make his 30th MLS appearance for the Galaxy tonight; only five players i...

By Nick Green Reporter Phil Collin, who was out at the Galaxy's practice this morning before Saturday's game against the San Jose Earthquakes, checks in with word that David Beckham left the field within the first hour with ice wrapped around a thigh.... Reporter Phil Collin, who was out at the Galaxy's pr...

By Nick Green Meanwhile, the Galaxy is already making post-season plans for the third consecutive year to wring the maximum amount of cash out out of David Beckham before he takes off to Italy. We can look forward to a Galaxy-Kaiserslautern game at 11:30 a.m. Thanksgiving Day (TV details TBA).

By Nick Green Next for Beckham - the Nobel Prize. Oh, and Becks says his loan deal to AC Milan is "95 percent done." Peter Crouch scored twice, Beckham got an assist after entering as a second-half substitute and England completed World Cup qualifying with a 3-0 victory over Belarus on Wednesday night.

By Nick Green But he also wants to join a top European club in January leading to the World Cup to help him stay on the England team coached by Fabio Capello. Beckham is eager to return to Milan after a loan there earlier this year. FIFA should take a long, hard look at bringing the World Cup to England. Over the y...

By Nick Green Galaxy 1 Chicago Fire 0 Frantic ending to this one that began about five minutes from the end of regulation time. First we had a rare indirect free kick inside the Galaxy penalty box after the referee ruled the Galaxy's... Galaxy 1 Chicago Fire 0

By Nick Green David Beckham, very active for the second consecutive game he has played, has 46 touches tonight, twice as many as Landon Donovan. Beckham is having another exceptionally good outing, combining well with LD and generally springing a goodly number of Galaxy attacks.

By Nick Green Galaxy 1 Fire 0 The Galaxy took a deserved lead in the 42nd minute, a long Chris Klein pass up the right wing from his own half finding a sprinting Landon Donovan who left a sprawling Logan Pause in the... Galaxy 1 Fire 0 Almost a half hour was gone until the Fire tested Galaxy goalkeeper Donovan Ri...

By Nick Green Here's the complete Galaxy starting XI: Ricketts, Franklin, Berhalter, Gonzalez, DeLaGarza, Klein, Beckham, Birchall, Lewis, Buddle, Donovan. Updated: The game will start at 8:18 p.m. because of the televised football game on ESPN2.

By Nick Green The Galaxy will qualify for the playoffs for the first time since the MLS Cup-winning season of 2005 if they defeat the Fire and Chivas USA ties or wins at D.C. United. It won't be easy. The Fire can also clinch a post-season berth with a win (and if D.C. United fails to defeat Chivas USA).

By Nick Green It appears David Beckham may well play Friday against Chicago at Home Depot Center after all. He trained with the squad Tuesday and "upped" the pace in practice again today; no adverse effects I'm told and things are looking good... It appears David Beckham may well play Friday against Chicag...

By Nick Green Playoff implications on the line since the Galaxy can clinch their first playoff berth in four years with a win over the Chicago Fire on Friday night and a D.C. United loss to Chivas USA Saturday: check. David Beckham returning from what was initially dismissed as a 50-50, long-standing Achi...

By Nick Green An absent David Beckham. An invisible Landon Donovan. A Galaxy loss. The Galaxy went meekly down 2-0 to the Columbus Crew Saturday even though the co-MLS leaders rested the likes of reigning MLS MVP Guillermo Barros Schelotto, former Galaxy striker... An absent David Beckham. An invisible Lan...

By Nick Green The tight MLS playoff race The Galaxy meet the Columbus Crew at 4:30 p.m. today and there are four viewing parties locally. There's no David Beckham. Chivas USA faces a must-win game against the hapless Red Bulls at 7:30... The tight MLS playoff race There's no David Beckham.

By Nick Green Coach Bruce Arena told reporters in Columbus today that despite the injury being a 50:50 thing, the club would leave David Beckham in L.A. as a precaution with what's described as an achilles tendon issue. He's likely to only miss... Coach Bruce Arena told reporters in Columbus today that despi...

By Nick Green Galaxy 2 Toronto FC 0 Game story Toronto's Nick Garcia paid close attention to Edson Buddle. (AP Photo). Best line of the night goes to Galaxy Coach Bruce Arena explaining why last weekend's debacle and this Saturday's game were so... Galaxy 2 Toronto FC 0 Game story

By Nick Green Galaxy 2 Toronto FC 0 Edson Buddle made it two in the 83rd minute, stroking home the ball from seven yards out off a one-time pass from Landon Donovan who had tapped along a low David Beckham cross. That's Buddle's... Galaxy 2 Toronto FC 0 The win means the Galaxy keep pace with Houston (who beat Re...

By Nick Green Galaxy 1 Toronto 0 Better from the Galaxy this week (could it get any worse?) helped considerably by a brittle-looking Toronto defense. David Beckham could have had a second goal just before the break, a Julian de Guzman headed clearance... Galaxy 1 Toronto 0

By Nick Green Galaxy 1 FC Toronto 0 David Beckham just scored his second goal of the season in the ninth minute with a delightful run that allowed him to evade two defenders and slide it home from about 14 yards. Chris Birchall,... Galaxy 1 FC Toronto 0 David Beckham just scored his second goal of the season in t...

By Nick Green Galaxy XI (4-4-2): Donovan Rickets, Sean Franklin, Gregg Berhalter, Omar Gonzalez, Todd Dunivant, Chris Birchall, David Beckham, Stefani Miglioranzi, Eddie Lewis, Edson Buddle, Landon Donovan. Toronto FC designated player Julian de Guzman makes his MLS debut in what is his first ga...

By Nick Green The announcement came just minutes after Beckham and England had narrowly beaten the Ukraine 2-1 in a World Cup qualifier, captain John Terry getting on the end of Steven Gerrard's header from Beckham's free-kick with just five minutes remaining.

By Nick Green AP Photo David Beckham waves to fans after the Serie A soccer match today between AC Milan and Atalanta at the San Siro. You almost had to feel sorry for Galaxy Coach Bruce Arena and President of Business Operations Tom... AP Photo David Beckham waves to fans after the Serie A soccer match today b...

By Nick Green The LA Galaxy today announced that the club has reached an innovative agreement with AC Milan and David Beckham that would allow the midfielder to remain on loan with Milan through the end of the 2008-09 Serie A season. That season culminates on May 31, after which Beckham would re-join the...

By Nick Green The change is necessary to accommodate another part of the deal, an exhibition between AC Milan and the Galaxy at Home Depot Center in Carson on July 19. Beckham said his ideal scenario for the year would be to help Milan reach the Champions League and for the Galaxy to make the playoffs and wi...

By Nick Green Fruit Loops - Here is why it doesn't pay to follow every twist and turn in the David Beckham loan saga. Goal.com (a Web site that at least from its European desk manages to be consistently wrong by mistaking rumors and gossip for actual news) reports this morning that the Beckham deal will be fi...

By Nick Green Well, sort of. Here's the back story: By now, anyone who pays the slightest amount of attention to MLS knows David Beckham and Landon Donovan, the team's biggest stars, both want to flee for Europe, where they are on loan... Well, sort of. At worst it just makes the Galaxy and MLS look amateurish.

By Nick Green Next for Becks: the bright lights of MilanPhoto by Scott Varley The dimming of the star power at the Galaxy is the subject of today's column. It's a good thing. David Beckham and Landon Donovan have already left the building... The Galaxy Under-18 team (2-4) lost 3-2 to Nomads FC at the HDC.

By Nick Green Photo by Sean Hiller David Beckham tries an unsuccessful free kick. Post-Game Quotes: Chivas USA Coach Preki on the reason he was given for getting sent off: "Absolutely none." A press box colleague later observed a Chivas assistant coach told...