Important Interviews
Tuesday, 19 June 07, 09:43 AM · Comments(1)
Mark here.
Well, it really is the summer - when the biggest story of the day is Alexi Lalas, you know you're in trouble.
Lalas, who had a spell in Italy and a successful career for Team USA is now stroking his ridiculous hair over in LA as General Manager of the Galaxy.
He seems to have a french fry on his shoulder about the English Premier League now. He claims it is an "inferior product" and is only the product of great marketing. Lalas goes onto claim that the MLS is one of the most competitive in the world, and then doesn't give any evidence to support this apart from the opinion that a lot of stars would struggle here.
The most illuminating part of the interview, however, is the following, when asked about his facial hair:
"I cleaned up on the outside but I'm still a mess on the inside. For a long time it conveyed a certain immaturity and I milked it all the way. And then I shaved it off in 2000. I was in Sydney,
doing some TV work for the Olympics, and it was the end of a long night for me and Anne, my then girlfriend and now my wife.
"We all do strange things when we come in late at night so there's me, the beard, a hotel bathtap and a razor. It looked like surgery. We actually filmed it
because it felt like an iconic moment - never before in the history of football has so much been made of so little facial hair. We should probably put it on YouTube, maybe on the day David arrives in Los Angeles. But it'll be Beckham, rather than the beard, that will give us a million hits and more . . ."
The summer does strange things to people, none more so than reading an interview with a fool who I wish had accidentally killed himself with that razor! Perhaps next week we can read interviews from Roy Wegerle and Tab Ramos to experience an exegesis on the cleaning of the fingernails, their shaving routines in general and what they think of the quality of Serie A vis a vis the Bulgarian league. Would Kaka struggle playing for Levski Sofia?
I'd rather read transfer gossip.
Mark,
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Lalas has always been an attention seeking baby. The only way that stars of the EPL would struggle in MLS would be due to the lack of talent surrounding them, leading them to try and win games by themselves.
I for one wonder what absurd things Lalas will do/say once Beckham arrives in L.A. and his (Lalas) spotlight gets taken away?