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    New Beckham boss on Premiership: 'an inferior product'
    TheStar.com - Sports - New Beckham boss on Premiership: 'an inferior product'


    June 19, 2007
    Associated Press

    LONDON – Alexi Lalas helped humiliate English soccer 14 years ago. It looks like he's trying to do it again.

    The Los Angeles Galaxy president, who scored when the United States beat England 2-0 in a friendly in 1993, told British newspapers that Major League Soccer is on a par with the Premier League.

    Irked by suggestions that David Beckham is going into semi-retirement by joining the Galaxy, Lalas said the only reason the English league is popular is because of American-style marketing.

    "The fact that a segment of the world worships an inferior product in the Premiership is their business," Lalas said in an interview with The Guardian published Tuesday.

    "In England, our league is considered second class, but I honestly believe if you took a helicopter and grabbed a bunch of MLS players and took them to the perceived best league in the world they wouldn't miss a beat and the fans wouldn't notice any drop in quality."

    Despite criticizing the Premier League for sloganeering and over-marketing, Lalas claimed that, when he arrives, Beckham will have a higher profile in the United States than Tiger Woods or Michael Jordan.

    "The U.S. will never have dealt with an athlete who has had this kind of international impact," Lalas told The Mirror. "Tiger Woods has that international appeal but, with due respect to Woods and Michael Jordan, David Beckham is at an entirely different level."

    Lalas, a 37-year-old former United States defender, said his country's record at the past four World Cups compared favourably with that of England – England has two underwhelming quarter-final appearances to one for the U.S. – and suggested almost all those who criticize the MLS have yet to see the league.

    However, several British papers were unimpressed by the Galaxy's 3-2 win over Real Salt Lake on Sunday.

    "The game was not without moments of quality ... (but) some of the defending from both sides was the type of stuff you watch through your fingers," according to The Mirror. "It was the football equivalent of a demolition derby.

    "The use of possession was alarmingly careless and the concept of marking appeared not to have found its way across the Atlantic."


    http://www.thestar.com/Sports/article/227028

    #2
    EPL is not the best league in the world but not all MLS players can keep up with them.

    The good ones can but not all...

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      #3
      dats a big jk
      WE ARE THE UNDER DOGS

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        #4
        stupid americans tryin to make out as if they're big dlcks.

        EPL beats la liga, seria a, the lot

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          #5
          I watched the interview and yes I agree with everyone here what Lalas said was pure crap. Now you got to understand it from this perspective Lalas is trying to pump up the MLS and he is basically acting as a cheerleader for them. He is doing his job hyping up the MLS. I still think he is an idiot but I understand what he is trying to do. Just notice how much press he is getting for the MLS by saying such stupid comments. Heck we are talking about it so he is doing something right.

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            #6
            he is kinda full of shitt...here but at the same time not...!
            you could switch out all the players of epl with mls and still mls would come across as the inferior league because of fan support and the hype surrounding the matches.
            it is true that most who think mls is crap...havent even seen a game yet.!
            it was pure crap 3-4 years ago...but the quality is improving rapidly..!
            and if and only if they can get the avarage american to give a shitt about the sport in general and get excited about a soccer match and most importantly if they can convince american tv to fall for the league then we will be looking at the MLS as easily one of top 5 leagues in the world..!
            personally i dont believe it will happen to that extent anytime soon...! in america its all about the benjamins (tv ratings and fans spending) and because soccer is for most part unintruped game(no commercial breaks every 5 min.) it wont get as big in this culture..!

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              #7
              Alexi Lalas did what every smart general manager would do. He got people and newspapers and TV programs commenting about his team and league.
              I went to Sharif University. I'm a superior genetic mutation, an improvement on the existing mediocre stock.

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                #8
                Originally posted by Redfan View Post
                stupid americans tryin to make out as if they're big dlcks.
                EPL beats la liga, seria a, the lot
                innit..

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