My Life Dreams

While I was in Los Angeles I felt it was only right to watch my hero David Beckham play for Los Angeles Galaxy Football (Soccer) team. I was a bit worried about booking a ticket, as I knew I would be on my own and the Home Depot Centre where they play is about 1 ½ drive from Hollywood where I was staying.

On the 4^th July A guy in my Hostel went to see a match and said it was fine getting there and he got a taxi back to be safe, so I thought what the heck I am all the way over here and I will never get the chance to see David Beckham play again.

I went onto a website called ‘Stubhub’ who sell cheap tickets and I managed to get a second row ticket for $13 for the 9^th July 2011.

I made my way to the Home Depot Centre in Carson on the bus as I had already bought a weekly ticket for unlimited use. It was really easy to get there but we went through Compton, which is the roughest area in Los Angeles, and no tourist is ever seen there! This helped me make my decision to get a taxi home at whatever cost!

I arrived at the Home Depot centre in time to watch the teams warm up and I got my first ever real life glimpse of David Beckham!!! He is as good looking in real life as he is in Magazines.

The game itself was a pretty good match. LA Galaxy was playing the Chicago Fire and ended up winning 2-1. The first half wasn’t that interesting but in the second half it was all go! In the 58^th minute Galaxy received a free kick, which David Beckham took and curved it onto Landon Donovan’s head for the first goal. Next up was Chicago Fire who scored an easy goal in the 62^nd minutes but only 4 minutes later was the highlight of the game. Galaxy received a corner kick, which again David Beckham took. A usual corner kick would see the player curve it in to one of the player’s heads but this time Beckham did something that not many players could do. He curved it right into the goal past all the players and even the goalkeeper!!!!

The whole experience for me was incredible as the Home Depot centre is a fairly small stadium so any seat you sit in is a good seat. I was lucky to have a second row seat right next to the corner in which Beckham took the corner from. I will never forget this day!