Becks won't turn US on to football: Fergie

0 Comments | AFP, September, 2007

GLASGOW (AFP) — Sir Alex Ferguson has warned David Beckham that his bid to turn the United States on to football is doomed to failure.

Beckham has vowed to take Major League Soccer "to the next level" after agreeing to see out his career with the Los Angeles Galaxy.

But his former boss at Manchester United is sceptical about the scale of the impact Beckham can have.

"In the late 70s I went to America with Aberdeen and there were guys like (Teofilo) Cubillas and (Peter) Shilton there," Ferguson told an audience at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre.

"Before that there was Pele, Cruyff, Beckenbauer. It is difficult with David going there - I don't know what kind of impact he can make. David Beckham himself can't change the whole country."

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