Beckham - “I intend to stay until the end of my contract and maybe further”
Filed under: Becks, LA Galaxy, Landon Donovan, Los Angeles, MLS
David Beckham (L) talks with a trainer as teammate Landon Donovan strecthes following practice with the Los Angeles Galaxy for the first time this year following the extension of his loan with Italy’s AC Milan at The Home Depot Center on July 13, 2009 in Carson, California. Beckham missed the first 17 games of the Major League Soccer team’s 30 games this season.
Beckham fielded questions from the media about attempts to patch up differences with Galaxy teammate Landon Donovan and his long-term future with the team.
from the LA Times:
Just when we thought the David Beckham experiment — to borrow a popular phrase — would soon be coming to an end, there were signs Monday that it could be a longer-running production than expected.
So don’t be surprised if Beckham and his Galaxy teammate and new best pal Landon Donovan appear together in Major League Soccer’s All-Star game in Sandy, Utah, on July 29. It might well happen.
“I intend to stay until the end of my contract and maybe further,” Beckham said Monday about his plans with the Galaxy. “I’ve always said that. I’ve always said, even when I went to Milan, that I’m committed
to the Galaxy and to MLS, and that hasn’t changed.”
In Beckham’s view, Los Angeles has its pluses.
“My family is happy here,” he said. “The kids are happy. . . . There are always going to be people speculating whether we’re going to go back to England or Europe, but I can’t say enough about how happy my kids and my family are here.”
Sweetness and light were not what the dozens of reporters, photographers and television crews that showed up at the Home Depot Center on Monday morning wanted to hear. They were tracking the blood
in the water. They wanted more on the Donovan-Beckham spat.
It was not forthcoming.
A meeting at a time and place no one would reveal with Beckham, Donovan and Galaxy Coach Bruce Arena had put a lid on the controversy that bubbled over when Donovan was quoted making unflattering remarks about Beckham in a new book, “The Beckham Experiment,” by Grant Wahl.
“It’s over,” Beckham said. “I’m not going to talk about what was said. That’s between me, Landon and the manager. But it’s finished. It’s over. So we move on.
“We spoke, the two of us, and also Bruce, and like I said, it’s finished.”
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Seriously? He stays great. He doesn’t, it means everything that we thought would happen actually happens. He stays then it’s a long drawn-out affair about nothing MLS or American soccer fans want to talk about anyway. Cheers to him.
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