Galaxy Tour Falling Flat

Photo by Brad Westphal for Shanghaiist.

The Los Angeles Galaxy wrapped a 3-0 win in Shanghai on Wednesday night (yup -- big time difference, folks!) thanks to a hat trick by Carlos Ruiz. Shanghaiist, our sister site, has been covering Beckhamania and has great analysis of the match against Shanghai East Asia Hong Kong United (it's unclear at this time if that fits on a jersey). In fact, they've got a lot more insight than, say, ESPN's Soccernet.

Becks did notch an assist and pulled out of the game early, playing it cautious with a minor injury.

Much like in America, there were some empty seats. It's like a billion people had something better to do. Only 10,000 showed up in a stadium that could have held eight times as many.

Last month, the Galaxy was in a tournament in Hawaii where the average attendance for four games was less than five-figures. LAist had some spies out there and the only sign of footie in Waikiki was a small Landon Donovan autograph signing.

Another similarity between the Shanghai and Honolulu games? Both had very bad pitches. Hopefully Sunday's match in Hong Kong will be better.