Dinner With Beckham

Four U.S. players decided to spend the evening with David Beckham…along with 27,000 other fans at The Home Depot Center. Abby Wambach, Cat Whitehill, Heather O’Reilly and Marian Dalmy took in the Galaxy-Chivas USA match on a warm Southern California night in front of a festive Super Classico crowd. While the Galaxy did not perform well in the loss, the players were highly impressed by Beckham’s effort, and especially his ability to play three 90-minute games (one on an artificial surface) over six days on two U.S. coasts and one other continent. Wow. The Galaxy scoring chances were scarce, but the players were entertained by a Herculean effort in the first half from Dalmy’s fellow Santa Clara alumni and Galaxy GK Joe Cannon, as well as a near brawl at the end of the first half that, after the dust cleared, eventually produced two red cards. The fist-a-cuffs were ignited after Beckham was scythed down in midfield by Chivas midfielder Jesse Marsch.