How the largest signing in league history, David Beckham, happened in the first place and how it changed the direction of MLS forever.
The brothers talk about how and why the Designated Player happened, how Blanco was the better player in the early years and why it took a few years before everyone started to spend money on Designated Players.
Sources:
Looking back at fires last big signing by Guillermo Rivera for Chicago Now
Soccer Player Beckham Sparks $13m in Sales by Curtis Eichelberger for NY Sun
https://www.nysun.com/national/soccer-player-beckham-sparks-13m-in-sales/52872/
15 Years of the Don by Grant Wahl for SI
https://www.si.com/soccer/planet-futbol/2014/12/03/don-garber-mls-commissioner-major-league-soccer
Q&A with Grant Wahl by Jack Bell for NY Times
https://goal.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/qa-with-grant-wahl-author-of-the-beckham-experiment/
Galaxy has Becks Appeal by Graham Jones for LA Times
www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-12-sp-beckham12-story.html
Beckham is MLS Expansion Story Du Jour by Paul Kennedy for Soccer America
https://www.socceramerica.com/publications/article/51723/beckham-is-mls-expansion-story-du-jour.html
http://thesportsbizblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/fire-to-be-sold-to-bronfman-family.html
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