Beckenbauer against football's big-money investors (AFP)
Published 5/31/2008 at Yahoo! Sports - World Soccer News
Double World Cup winner Franz Beckenbauer regretted in the press here on Saturday the role of investors who use football clubs purely for speculative purposes.
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