David Beckham makes long awaited return
David Beckham finally made his long awaited return to competitive action, after being side lined for nearly six months. The player came on as a second half substitute and made an appearance for the LA Galaxy side, which went on to win their game by three goals to one, against their Major League Soccer arch rivals, The Columbus Crew.
David Beckham had managed to rupture his Achilles tendon, earlier this year in March while the player was playing for AC Milan in Italy, where he was loaned out during the off season in MLS.
This injury had also caused the player to sit out of England's World Cup campaign in South Africa and this left the legendary English international in tears, since he felt that this was his last chance to feature for England in a World Cup tournament.
The Three Lions however proceeded without him to South Africa though all team members felt his absence immensely. Beckham did stay with the team however, on a controversial post. It was announced Beckham would tag along to help the players with his experience and increase their morale in the tournament.
England’s performance in the World Cup was disappointing as a definite lack of firepower was shown. They barely qualified out of the Group stages after managing draws against mediocre teams. Only in their last Group match were they able to defeat Slovenia 1-0 and qualify for the Round of 16 where they met their arch rivals Germany.
A team deemed as the dark horses, Germany thrashed England 4-1 in what concluded to be on of the most controversial matches in history. English team returned back home defeated and humiliated along with Beckham who was now saddened even more than before.
The former Manchester United and Real Madrid side midfielder, was brought on to participate for the last twenty minutes of the game, which was being played at the Home Depot Center. When the player was called in the field LA Galaxy were already leading by three goals to nil, against the current leader of the Eastern Conference.
Beckham made his brief cameo for the team act as a test for the player, to see if he was fully fit or not. This was because he had managed to regain fitness much earlier then he was expected to.
After the game Beckham was caught saying: “It feels amazing”. He added, “Doing rehabilitation is kind of tough. That was a big win in a big game.”
The 35 year old player also said, “I was itching to get on but obviously I was restricted.”
The win, thanks to goals from Edson Buddle, Dema Kovalenko and Jovan Kirovski, sends the Galaxy back to the top of the Western Conference.
“I just want to add to the success the team had earlier in the season. We just have to continue,” stated Beckham.
However there is also some personal good news for the player, despite the fact that LA Galaxy would be relishing the return of their prized asset. Beckham can now make himself available to the England squad for the Euro qualifiers and can even potentially make it all the way to the finals of the tournament.
The player had been previously over looked on a number of occasions by Fabio Capello and the manager even went as far as to axing the player from ever making the England team. However he had learned that he made a crucial mistake and has since gone on to apologize to Beckham articulating, that he has a very good chance of making the England squad as long as he maintains his fitness.
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