A Part-Time Player

Argued by many to be the most influential player in soccer (football) history, David Beckham's career has been quite the journey. Starting out at the young age of 18, playing for the English superstar team, Manchester United, Beckham was lights out, tallying up 62 goals for the squad.

Ever since Beckham's move to the United States, however, back in 2007, he's become quite the Brett Farve type of player. Let's face it: he's old, 35 years old to be exact. Playing professional soccer at the age of 35 is like playing football in the NFL at the age of 50. It does not happen that often. Not only is he still playing, and not retiring, he's doing so in terrible fashion. The minute Beckham stepped into the U.S., he tarnished any sort of good name that had been given to him while overseas and changed the way most soccer fans pictured him. He's been hurt multiple times playing for lowly-side, Los Angeles Galaxy, and has several times requested that he be sent to teams overseas to "keep up his game." His play has been completely selfish and egotistical, he's a disgrace to his teammates, and he's destroying any sort of credit that I, and many other Americans, have given him, through his phenomenal play over in England.