The Beckham Effect Introduction

This fall, as part of my Business and Administrative Writing class, one of my assignments is to maintain a business related blog. With loose guidelines, I was tasked with creating a business related topic to write about for the next 16 weeks. I am a passionate sports fan, so I decided to focus on an area of sports that also relates to business. Over the past few years, my interest in professional soccer has been growing. I have been following David Beckham's transfer to Major League Soccer very closely and have decided to create a blog about the effect David Beckham is having on the business aspects of Major League Soccer.

Throughout this blog I hope to catalog what effects, if any, he may have on American professional soccer. I will be updating this blog several times per week with news articles, important match highlights, interviews, web links, and videos. Hopefully my professor, classmates, and anyone else who finds this blog will be entertained and informed by my writings. In conclusion to this first introductory post, I leave you with this video of Beckham's first MLS goal, scored against DC United on August 14th, 2007.