Beckham Scores His First Goal for Milan. Woohoo.

By: Laurie | January 25th, 2009

Beckham scored for AC Milan today in their victory over Bologna. And it wasn’t even from a free kick.

101 Great Goals, from whom I borrowed the video, describes the event as, “David Beckham broke his duck.” Which made me laugh. Because Beckham is now playing with Pato.

You know. Pato? The Duck?

Oh, never mind.

This is good news for Milan in their continuing efforts to exploit exceptionally famous and only-mildly-over-the-hill footballers to improve both their ticket and merchandise sales perform well in Serie A. It is less than good news for the LA Galaxy, with whom Beckham supposedly has a contract for the next three years. (Or according to most reports, one year before he can make the escape clause kick in.)

Any bets on whether the Galaxy will be able to rebuild enough this season to keep him around?

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• Laura |  January 25th, 2009 at 1:44 pm

  
  
  

  Where did that come from?

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• Laurie |  January 25th, 2009 at 2:17 pm

  
  
  

  Not sure what the question is? The video was found by 101 Great Goals, on one of the foreign hosting sites they use — d1g.com. Click on the link in the post, then click on the highlighted “David Beckham” in the writeup of the Bologna-Milan game.

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• Aaron |  January 25th, 2009 at 2:32 pm

  
  
  

  Hey Laurie, this is unrelated but are we ever going to get another post on the France NT blog?

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• Laurie |  January 25th, 2009 at 2:35 pm

  
  
  

  Aw, Aaron, nice to know you care. Soon!

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• mele419 |  January 25th, 2009 at 3:37 pm

  
  
  

  It was a pretty sweet goal. I must point out that around the 70th minute he went from playing well to pure garbage, and it was obvious he was exhausted. He should have been subbed off instead of Seedorf, (from a tactical standpoint, not a merchandising one) I think.

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• MoMONEY |  January 25th, 2009 at 4:11 pm

  
  
  

  He was probably Milan’s most creative player in the second half… Played a great great game and I am usually not a fan of his… Dont think his style was or will be apprecieted in MLS tho

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• Ronald |  January 25th, 2009 at 7:12 pm

  
  
  

  What im more impressed with was the Seedorf pass….because I know ( and Milanistas know ) from watching the previous games in where he and seedorf played, he didnt pass to him. Like at all. ok, maybe like once. or twice. but never more than that. i kinda got the feeling maybe he didnt like him or something lol .

  so yea, nice to see Seedorf of old today

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• Ronald |  January 25th, 2009 at 7:14 pm

  
  
  

  oh yea…..the france blog could use some new post lol

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• Hana |  January 25th, 2009 at 7:45 pm

  
  
  

  “David Beckham broke his duck.”

  When I read that after the match, I was amused, but was more bewildered than anything. Is “breaking the duck” some kind of euphemism for “ending a bad spell”? Never ever heard of it before.

  It was a very nicely set up goal though via Duckie and Seedorf.

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• Diane |  January 25th, 2009 at 10:48 pm

  
  
  

  In England its your first goal for a club, occasionally used for a first goal in a particular tournament.

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• AUNG MYO |  January 26th, 2009 at 1:12 am

  
  
  

  We’re really delighted for his first victory goal for Milan, we /re looking forward to seeing him in England squad until 2010 world cup.

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• AUNG MYO |  January 26th, 2009 at 1:17 am

  
  
  

  David,congradulation! for ur winning goal that proved u are still strong for ur national team.

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• Beckham News |  January 26th, 2009 at 6:28 am

  
  
  

  Becks has praised Milan, Real & Man U publicly since arriving in Milan (omitting to say how much he was missing LA…). Also The Galaxy have refused to even acknowledge his deal with Milan (check their website…). Relationships are clearly strained, can you see him swapping the eurphoria of scoring for Milan in Serie A, with shouldering the burden of LA Galaxy???

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• Dave Martinez |  January 26th, 2009 at 7:43 am

  
  
  

  I do not approve

  mls.theoffside.com

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• Daryl |  January 26th, 2009 at 9:17 am

  
  
  

  re: “breaking his duck”

  I’m pretty sure it comes from cricket. If a batsman is out with zero runs then it’s called a duck, possibly because a zero looks like a duck’s egg.

  So when a batsman scores his first run he “breaks his duck”, meaning he won’t be getting zero.

  Obviously this works the same for football: zero = duck’s egg so first goal breaks duck.

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• Marco P. |  January 26th, 2009 at 7:37 pm

  
  
  

  This post should be enclosed with .

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• Marco P. |  January 26th, 2009 at 7:41 pm

  
  
  

  … [bitter Galaxy fan] [/bitter Galaxy fan]

  (TheOffside removed my )

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• Laurie |  January 26th, 2009 at 8:48 pm

  
  
  

  Nah, Marco. I reserved the genuinely bitter remarks for the comments over in this post.

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