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SYLVESTER STALLONE IS TURNING FANATICAL
The actor is in London later in the week for the British premiere of Rocky Balboa, his sixth film about the blue-collar Philadelphia boxer. So the mega star took some time out to learn more about the game that Americans are getting so excited about. As Los Angeles prepares to welcome David Beckham.
Sylvester Stallone paid a visit to Liverpool on Sunday 14th January.
At the start of Everton’s Premiership match against Reading, the Rocky star held up a blue-and-white Everton scarf to loud cheers from the 30,000-strong crowd.
Sylvester Stallone believes David Beckham will be a major success in the United States when he joins the LA Galaxy next year.
This could be great for everybody. Beckham could be a big hit in the States," insisted Stallone, who played the part of a soccer goalkeeper in 'Escape to Victory', the 1981 film charting the exploits of a team made up of inmates from a German Second World War prison camp.
Earlier Sunday, former England manager Bobby Robson claimed it was Beckham's ousting from the national side which resulted in him joining the LA Galaxy, who play in Major League Soccer (MLS), successor to the NASL.
Real Madrid's 31-year-old former England skipper revealed on Thursday he would next season play for the American team on a 250-million-dollar, five-year contract.
Robson is convinced the decision of national boss Steve McClaren to overlook Beckham for the Euro 2008 qualifier in Croatia last October, despite a long injury list, convinced Beckham his days at the top were numbered.
"The decision killed Beckham's aspiration and hope and, in my view, led directly to this week's announcement that he is off the United States for a very lucrative semi-retirement," 73-year-old Robson claimed in his British newspaper column. 
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