Tears, hugs, and a moving salute from his teammates and fans. The final game of David Beckham’s career was just about everything you’d expect. Even Posh Spice managed to break a smi … wait, is she smilin … nope, never mind.
Well, it was a proper sendoff for a soccer icon. The game won’t be the same without you, Becks.
With David Beckham announcing his upcoming retirement yesterday, he and adidas have seized the moment with special edition cleats.
Becks will wear these during the major event that will be his last home game at Brest tomorrow. If you know anything about Beckham you’ll immediately notice the personal touches on these boots. First off, he has the names of his family on the back: the wife and four children.
The red, white & blue pays respect to the union flag of Great Britain, of course.
Beckham has had a career unlike anyone before him. It’s only right he goes out in style.
I don’t know about you, but I can’t even convince my girlfriend to lower her voice when speaking to me. Wait … I don’t even have a girlfriend … maybe that’s the problem (awkward).
Anyway, Heineken offered free Champions League Final tickets to guys that could convince their ladies to buy a couple plastic chairs for two grand. Yup, that was the catch. Above were the results.
Is San Jose Earthquakes forward Adam Jahn an early favorite for the 2013 MLS Rookie of the Year?
It’s early in the Major League Soccer season, but the Stanford product already has four goals in only nine appearances in his first season in the U.S. top flight. With forward Steven Lenhart and Alan Gordon in and out of the lineup due to suspension and injuries, Jahn has filled in admirably for last season’s Supporters’ Shield winners.
The 91st Minute briefly caught up with the youngster to discuss what it’s been like making the jump from college to pro soccer.
Q: What’s the adjustment to the professional level been like?
Adam Jahn: It’s obviously a lot faster and different but I feel like I was able to jump right in because all my teammates and coaching staff made the environment very easy to jump into. Practices are very high level and everyone offers good advice to the young guys so it wasn’t really too big of a jump in.
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It’s no secret that racism has been an ugly stain on soccer. Mario Balotelli, because of his status in the game, has long been a target and he’s becoming fed up.
In an interesting interview with CNN, Balotelli talks about the abuse he’s endured and says that he’s ready to take a stand.
“I always said that if it (racism) happened in the stadium I will just do like ‘nobody says nothing and I don’t care,’” the 22-year-old said. “But this time I think I’ve changed my mind a little bit. If it’s going to happen one more time, then I’m going to leave the pitch because it’s so stupid.”
Roma was recently fined $65,000 by the Italian Football Federation after their fans targeted Balotelli this past weekend.
So with David Beckham bidding goodbye and all, it’s time to get a little nostalgic. Off The Post put together a great collection of the top 10 moments of his career, which we thought was pretty awesome.
The top one is above, a free kick that qualified England for the 2002 World Cup.
We’ll refer YOU HERE to check out No. 2-10.
adidas has unveiled its new Nitrocharge, a soccer cleat silo designed to retain energy, improve lateral movement, sharpen on field reactions, deliver added sprinting power and increase protection specifically for players who are tirelessly on the move. Nitrocharge is the first new adidas soccer cleat silo since the release of the adizero F50 range in 2004.
You can check out the likes of Dani Alves, Daniele De Rossi and Javi Martinez endorsing the new boot in this cool commercial.
The Most Interesting Man in Soccer has finally joined the Twitterverse. That’s right. Mario Balotelli, the guy who leaves us scratching our heads on and off the field is bringing his act to social media.
This is going to be fun. I give him two weeks before he says something completely inappropriate, claims it was taken out of context (by himself), cancels his Twitter account before reactivating it two days later. This is going to happen. You watch.
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