A Little More Galaxy News from Australia

By: Laurie | November 27th, 2007

Apologies for not posting more as we go into the New Zealand and Australia games. I have apparently offended the tech gods and they are NOT smiling on me. In the past two weeks we’ve had one laptop stolen and the other acquire a dead motherboard. And today I lost the modem on my last remaining computer, the desktop, so I have no home internet access. I’ve also lost half a dozen lightbulbs in the past two days. I’m starting to get a little freaked out by this.

(Post-post clarification: What I MEAN here, Ian, is that they all burned out within a few hours of each other. Smart aleck commenter. Apologies for the lack of clarity. This is the kind of thing I write when I’m furtively stealing my neighbor’s wifi signal at 11:30 p.m when he’s asleep..)

But never fear. I SHALL bring you Galaxy news. I have purchased a new laptop (which I needed anyway), and now I get to be one of those people working frantically on their computers at Starbucks while they pretend that they are important. I’ve always wanted to do that.

Latest from the Galaxy in Oz is an article that contains a sweet interview with midfielder Josh Tudela. Whom my buddy Jeff over at Center Holds It refers to as “Monchichi.” I never know whether to giggle or be offended on Josh’s behalf. I mean, Monchichis are sweet and cuddly, right? So it’s probably a compliment. But I’m always happy when Tudela shaves, because then for some reason the resemblance is not so striking.

But I digress. The article starts out by saying that our Becks picked up an ankle knock in training, but don’t worry. It’s not serious. (Whoa. Deja vu.)

And then it goes on to give us this sweet Tudela interview:

Just as there is Beckham, there are the rookies in the Galaxy squad who are earning peanuts compared with his $57 million a year and one of those is 23-year-old midfielder Josh Tudela, who is on $22,700 annually and is desperately hoping to play in front of the biggest crowd he has faced.

“It would be unbelievable to play here – this stadium is amazing,” Tudela said yesterday. “About 30,000 is the biggest crowd I’ve played in front of so far. I don’t know if I’m starting, but I would certainly love to play.”

Asked how he reconciled with being on his meagre wage playing in the same team as a superstar earning a fortune, Tudela replied: “It’s tough what we make, but I can’t compare myself to David Beckham. I came in knowing I’m not going to be paid as much and that’s where I want to start.

“And I want to get up – maybe not to where David’s at – but hopefully where some of the higher-paid guys are at. Growing up I watched David play and it’s amazing to be on the same pitch with him. It’s a dream come true.”

Oh, damn. There goes my maternal area again. I hate when that happens.