Beckam is a good free kicker, and his " metrosexual " looks are just perfect of a comparison with Dennis Rodman If you do not like Beckam with Rodman, we can prob compare him with Barbie or Ken, too bad Barbie isnt a soccer player in the US, or maybe Beck can go in the same category as tiger wood, they're both pimps, they both have a hot wife, they both could easely get beat by Freddy Adu with one hand tied.
Maybe so...but he been topscorer or top-player in just about every league/competition he has played in.... Leagues: Brazil....Copa Libertadores's top scorer: 1994 Dutch....top scorer: 1995 Spain [Barca]...top scorer: 1997 Italy....top player: 1998 Spain [RM]...top scorer: 2004 UEFA.....player of year: 1998 Intercontinental Cup final....top player: 2002 Intl: Copa America....top scorer: 1997 & 1999 WCQ.....top scorer: 2005 WC [probably the only player to ever go to a WC and not come back empty handed]..... WC94: gold medal WC98: silver medal & golden ball WC2002: gold medal, silver ball, golden shoe WC2006: bronze shoe FIFA World Player....Ist place: 1996 / 1997 / 2002.....2nd place: 1998....3rd place: 2003 And lets not forget that hes also.....Number one in the WC all-time goalscoring charts and second in Brazil's all-time goalscoring charts That was just some of things hes achieve so far....
I personally think its not really realistic to compare American Football players to Soccer players. IMO, much of Amer. Football training seems to be the physical part. Training for the 40 yard sprint, weight training, all fast twitch training/power training. This alone can make you a good Football player, depending on how much you put into it and genetics of course. Soccer is different, more diversified in its needs of abilities. You never really hear of Soccer players concentrating on their 40 yd or 100 yd sprint. Its not really even realistic training for Soccer players whose movements on a field don't reflect that kind of training. Most of a Soccer players training will be for quickness with and without the ball in small areas, endurance and recovery and a very large skill set training. Soccer seasons are very long with a short off season to work on simply the physical/power training end. Football has a long off-season where players can work on strength/power. Of course, there is the tactical knowledge/training both sports will require but I guess we are comparing the physical only. Its very different training for very different sports. If American football players spent their life training for Soccer, they would not look and move the way they do now as American Football players. I guess the only comparison could be who is the better athlete in their sport. Is Michael Vick a better Football player than Ronaldo is a Soccer player? Why bother?
Oh please. You know it is VICKMAN . I watched him play at the arena in georgia and he is faster quicker and more black than ronaldo
Here is my list, for now, american football not include it. 1. Maradona - Ali 2. Pele - Jordan 3. Ronaldo - Koby Bryan? 4. Tevvez (just because Im argentino)- Tyson 5. David Beckam - Dennis Rodman 6. Ronaldinho - Vince Cartr? 7. Jorge Gonzalez - any magicians in American sports? I heard a lot about this quarterback but I forgot his last name, is like Italian or something. I still have to find out about about American football to compare soccer players to them.
I am so tired of people assuming that a soccer/football player can not possibly be as good an athlete as an American football or basketball player. Anyone remember the "Superstars" competition that used to run on ABC in the '70s and 80s? It used to feature sports stars from a variety of North American professional sports (NFL/NBA/NHL/NASL etc...) battling against each other in a series of athletic events. Well... as it turned out Brian Budd (a jouneyman NASL soccer player) won the "World Superstars" competition "an unprededented three consecutive times, 1978, 1979, and 1980. The story goes that large American TV network ABC arranged it so that Budd could no longer compete beyond 1980 becaused he, an unknown to the American TV audience, had embarrassingly beaten all the famous American football and baseball stars entered and that this resulted in the network receiving low ratings for its broadcast." (from Wikipedia) So... is it so unlikely that a top soccer/football player (ie. Ronaldo) could actually be a better athlete than a top American sport athlete (ie. Michael Vick)? I think not...
3 times. Pole vaulters also did exceptionally well. Also, after Budd was excluded from the 1981 World Superstars contest (to allow someone more appealing to American TV audiences to win), guess who won in 1981? A South African Formula 1 race car driver. ABC execs were probably catatonic after that one.