Gameday Tuesday
A David Beckham-less Galaxy plays Tigres at 5:30 p.m. in the World Series of Football opener at the HDC; in the night's second game, England's Chelsea plays Korea's Samsung at 8:30 p.m. live on Fox Soccer Channel.
Dumb name for a pre-season tournament? I thought so as well. Here's my regular weekly column.
Meanwhile, here's more from Galaxy beat writer Billy Witz on Beckham's inaugural practice Monday.
Here's a little background on Tigres from Wikipedia.
And here's some info from the same source on Samsung.
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Sportswriter Nick Green has written the 100 Percent Soccer column since 2005 for the Daily News, Daily Breeze and other Los Angeles area newspapers. The blog of the same name began in 2007. A native of England, he began writing about soccer in the mid-1980s and in 2000 permanently exchanged a seat in the stands for one in the press box. He lives six miles from Carson's Home Depot Center, home of the Los Angeles Galaxy, Chivas USA and the training headquarters for U.S. Soccer and is married to a long-suffering soccer widow. Join Nick on FaceBook and follow him on Twitter.
Nick:
You can't have it your way all the time. First, you kill the team for all the young, inexperienced Americans it has on the roster and then you kill them for signing Beckham.
Now, you refer to every non-league game they play as ethnic pandering after for years complaining about their "weak" non-league schedule. How about one positive comment about the team since the HDC opened in 2003?
I am not holding my breath because if I were, I'd be dead by now.