https://www.espn.com/soccer/usl-cha...marcus-beasley-usl-franchise-owner-fort-wayne Looks like Beasley is heading into the business side of things by getting an USL franchise. Hoping the best for him and he can grow on this for the future. out of all the USMNT he seems like one of the most well liked and respected over the years. Drama free and a tireless worker and contributer.
Fair point, and I'm a big DMB fan, but it's worth remembering that he really struggled with injuries and form from 2009-2012. I distinctly remember a 2009 Confederations Cup group stage match in which he was pretty bad, got pulled, and didn't play again for the rest of the tournament. Beasley barely played with the USMNT between 2010-12, and then resurrected his career with Puebla in Mexico as a winger, before Jurgen Klinsmann experimentally played him as a LB in a 2013 WCQ in which our left back pool had been decimated. The rest, of course, is history. Beasley also unfairly took some criticism from fans and Bruce Arena in the 2006 World Cup after he struggled as a right winger in our 3-0 loss against Czech Republic. He came on as a sub against Italy, and assisted Clint Dempsey's goal against Ghana, and I remember thinking fans were a bit too hard on Beasley in that tournament -- of course, expectations on the team were sky high, and Beasley was getting a ton of media hype in advance of the tournament (alongside Landon Donovan, Oguchi Onyewu, Bobby Convey and Kasey Keller).