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Ultimately David Beckham emerged a winner and Major League Soccer can count its blessings.

MLS is a league that needs to grow — and be accessible to both media and fans. Leaving the MLS Cup location a mystery until a few days before the big game doesn’t help.

It was the end of an era for MLS and MLS Cup — on many fronts.

Landon Donovan finished off a gorgeous buildup through fellow Designated Players David Beckham and Robbie Keane in the 72nd minute, pushing the Galaxy to a 1-0 win over the Houston Dynamo in MLS Cup 2011 and gift-wrapping the third league championship in franchise history.

Included in the revised competition format is a change with MLS Cup. Beginning in 2012, the League’s championship will be hosted by the finalist that finished the regular season with the most points in the standings.

DC United midfielder Dwayne De Rosario was voted the Volkswagen MLS Most Valuable Player for the 2011 season.

When you think of a Most Valuable Player, you think of the lynchpin of a team; the player without whom the entire system collapses. Dwayne De Rosario was not the key ingredient to his teams’ success. In fact, as I will demonstrate after the jump, acquiring Dwayne De Rosario actually made teams worse.

The only thing in question from the big MLS picture point of view will be whether it’s wise to overpay for a championship.

Love him or hate him, David Beckham makes a difference. Beckham is hard to ignore.

With the three Canadian teams holding three of the first four picks in the 2012 SuperDraft, the top NCAA talent may want to consider renewing their passports soon.