US welcomes Beckham move

Updated on 12 January 2007

By Nicholas Glass

Reaction has been warm in the US to the news that David Beckham is to play football there.

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"The main thing for me is to improve the soccer and change history really," David Beckham insisted today in a message for supporters of his new Los Angeles Galaxy team.

The beautiful game may not be the most popular sport in the United States - and it certainly isn't called football.

But across the Atlantic there's been a warm reaction to the Beckhams' impending arrival. One sports pundit described it as "Tiger Woods meets Brad Pitt on the red carpet".

And even Madonna proclaimed herself a fan.

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