Football: Beckham set to face former club

LOS ANGELES: David Beckham says he’s chomping at the bit to finally face his old club when the Los Angeles Galaxy host Real Madrid in a football friendly at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Beckham spent four superb seasons with the La Liga giants before leaving in 2007 to try his luck in the US. He won the Spanish crown in his final season there. “To be facing Real Madrid for the first time since I left, it’s emotional,” said Beckham. “You get attached to a club, you get attached to people in a club. I spent four amazing years there.”

Published in The Express Tribune, July 16^th, 2011.