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INSIDE SOCCER'S DREAM TEAM ; THE PHENOMENOM OF REAL MADRID, BECKHAM'S NEW GIG
2005
Overview
The man most responsible for creating the phenomenon of Real Madrid is the team's president, Florentino Perez, whom [John Carlin] credits with \"smashing long-standing orthodoxies, altering the whole conception of the game.\" Perez has operated on the assumptions that the best way to keep fans interested in his team is to sign the best players in the world, no matter what they cost, and that their artistic and commercial value will make them bargains in any case. As a result, Real Madrid currently employs not only [David Beckham] but Ronaldo, Zinedine Zidane, Luis Figo, and Roberto Carlos. Together, the club's stars are known as \"Los Galacticos,\" and Carlin maintains that they have created a level of artistic achievement and fan enthusiasm unprecedented in the history of the game. As evidence he offers more remarkable anecdotes. While pursuing a story about genocide and AIDS in Rwanda, he finds that all the doctors and patients want to talk about is Real Madrid's joyous style. While trolling the Internet, he comes across a story in The Jordan Times by a Lebanese journalist, Hala Jaber, who claims to have witnessed \"young martyrs-in-waiting\" with the Palestinian Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade chanting \"Allahu akbar!\" when they got the news that Beckham had scored two goals.
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Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC
