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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Laurie

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

... [bitter Galaxy fan] [/bitter Galaxy fan]

(TheOffside removed my )
Marco P.

This post should be enclosed with .
Daryl

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.
Dave Martinez

I do not approve

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Beckham News

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???
AUNG MYO

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

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.
Diane

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

“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.
Ronald

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

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 :)
MoMONEY

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
mele419

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.
Laurie

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

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

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.
Laura

Where did that come from?