Beckham Being Considered for Captaincy
By: jen | May 30th, 2008Just throwing this into the mix before I go to bed, since it is early morning in Europe and my Google alerts are going crazy.
From The Independent:
David Beckham is a shock contender to be named England captain for tomorrow’s friendly against Trinidad & Tobago. The game has been arranged so that the Football Association can secure the vote of the Caribbean nation’s influential grandee Jack Warner for its 2018 World Cup bid and Beckham making a token return to the captaincy is regarded as a way of winning over Fifa.
Beckham quit the England captaincy after elimination from the 2006 World Cup and made his comeback to the team only when Steve McClaren recalled him against Germany in August. Warner is the president of Concacaf (Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football) and is one of only 24 men who will vote on who will host the 2018 World Cup. He has already been pictured meeting Beckham off the team plane in the local press.
Although Fabio Capello is not given to cheap publicity stunts, a one-match captaincy for Beckham would enable Warner, who was involved in a 2006 World Cup ticketing scandal, to be seen glad-handing the most famous footballer on the planet. The England manager is thought to be considering the idea. He has given Steven Gerrard, Rio Ferdinand and John Terry the chance to prove themselves as potential long-term captains.
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I hope this does mean that Capello would think that this was a good move from a footballing as well as a political point of view, and that it does mean that he sees Beckham as a long term England player.
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hey jen… i was just wondering if you would know of a good stream for the match against Trinidad and tobago? thanks
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Jots — I can get live streaming from http://www.my2p2.eu. You may need to download SopCast or another program to run it, but this is how I see blacked out Galaxy games. Shhh, did I just say that?
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