Becks in TIME 100
Thanks to an anonymous poster for pointing out there is currently an option to vote for David for Time magazine's most influential people of 2008 titled "TIME 100". Click here to visit the direct page to vote for Becks!


More on Adidas Advert
Sagnad has shared a link for more video of the new Adidas advertisement. Enjoy!


David on Ellen Preview
Here's a quick news report video with a strange "back to the future" (since it airs Thursday) recap of the appearance. Quote:

Football superstar David Beckham has continued his charm offensive in the United States by appearing on the Ellen Degeneres show.

Beckham talked about his love of being nude around the house, his legs being insured for tens of millions of dollars and wanting more kids.

Beckham also confesses to how uncomfortable he felt when he stripped down to his underwear for his first Armani shoot.

Catch him on the show tomorrow! Click here for info about the Ellen show in general. Here is the official promo clip for the episode, and here is a list of what's on the show this week--Thursday's write-up is quite funny.


Original Ted Beckham Interview
Someone (with all the "anonymous" commenting it's hard to give credit or answer to a person specifically, sorry) asked for this link to the original Ted Beckham interview to be posted. So here it is.


Galaxy and Iran?
It's been reported that the Galaxy requested a friendly against the Iranian national team. This news has come from Iran via a number of worldwide sources. The Galaxy are apparently denying the claim, so for now we're best assuming the Galaxy statements are correct and no invitation has been extended to Iran. We've learned the hard way (with the Hong Kong match) how the channels of communication become confused at best when the press is involved, so if anyone is hopeful this match will happen, stay tuned and we'll see.


Becks Blogs
Latest blog c/o davidbeckham.com:

Hi everyone,

I hope you are well?

I was pleased with the draw on Saturday against Houston Dynamo considering the way we started the game. We had no fight in the first half; no urgency at all and everything we did was slow. At half time a few words were said in the changing room and we came out a different team in the second half. It shows that there is plenty of fight within the team, which bodes well for the future if we can play at the level we did in the second half for the rest of the season and turn draws into wins. For me, personally, it was also nice to get a couple more assists. It’s great to play with intelligent players, who know when to make runs and know where the ball is going to be. My game is all about assists, so it was great to get two more and for Landon Donovan to score them.
Good luck to Manchester United, who play Barcelona in the champions league semi-final tonight. The matches between the two teams in the past have always produced great football and I was lucky enough to play in a couple, when United won the Champions League in 1999. I think that United will feel they can win this over the two legs, but Barcelona are also a great team, so both games should be amazing. I’m going to go for United though as they’re the team I support.

That’s all for now.

Take care,

David