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Is Sneijder Better than Beckham?

Posted Sep 3, 07 6:44 PM CDT in Sports 

(Newser) – Wesley Sneijder, newly signed by Real Madrid, isn't the best soccer player since Beckham, says an excited sports blogger—he's better. The 5-foot-7 Dutch footballer has already proved himself "bloody brilliant," he writes, and well worth Madrid's  €27 million transfer fee. He's "the best player Madrid has signed since Zinedine Zidane," says another footballer. Sorry, Becks.

In fact, Sid Lowe at the Guardian makes no bones about who he thinks is the better man. "Unable to fill Beckham's shoes? Pah! On the evidence so far, anything Becks can do, Sneijder can do better," he writes.

Source Guardian America

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Los Angeles Galaxy's David Beckham, left, who returned to the bench after his knee injury, yells at the sideline referee during the overtime period of SuperLiga championship soccer match against C.F....   (Associated Press)
Real Madrid player Wesley Sneijder celebrates his second goal during their Spanish League soccer match against Villarreal at the Madrigal Stadium in Villarreal, Spain. Sunday, Sept. 2, 2007. (AP Photo/Fernando...   (Associated Press)
Soccer player Wesley Sneijder, from Netherlands, heads the ball during his official presentation as new Real Madrid player in the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid, Monday Aug. 13, 2007. (AP Photo/Bernat...   (Associated Press)
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