Report: Beckham has option to buy MLS franchise
Published 3/21/2008 at FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER
David Beckham has an option to buy an MLS franchise when his five-year Los Angeles Galaxy contract expires after the 2011 season, according to a CBS "60 Minutes" profile scheduled to air Sunday.
The program was to report the option was granted to the 32-year-old midfielder and his manager, Simon Fuller.
"We don't comment on rumor or speculation," Simon Oliveira, Beckham's spokesman, said Thursday in an e-mail to The Associated Press.
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