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Women's game in U.S. impresses Becks Posted: Tuesday June 10, 2003 5:22 PMCARSON, California (AP) -- David Beckham is impressed by women's soccer in the United States. "You'd never get 100,000 fans turning up for a women's football game in England," the English told the Los Angeles Times. "It's just amazing that that can happen in America. It doesn't happen anywhere else in the world." While a Rose Bowl crowd of more than 90,000 attended the 1999 Women's World Cup final, the women's professional league is struggling at the gate. Beckham is traveling in the United States with his wife, singer Victoria Adams, and their two sons. The captain of England's national team and his famously curling kicks inspired the hit movie Bend it Like Beckham -- about a Sikh girl in Britain with soccer dreams. Beckham spoke at a youth clinic at the new Home Depot Center stadium, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from Los Angeles. "People have always turned to me and said, 'Girls and women? Why?'" he said. "But I think it's important that everyone enjoys the sport, not just men. They think it's a macho sport. It's not." |
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