Football: Beckham could own LA Galaxy in future

Beckham's unique agreement with LA Galaxy gives him an option to become an owner of the club after he retires.

LOS ANGELES: David Beckham is not ready to retire just yet but when he does Major League Soccer will be standing by to help him take up his option to buy into the league whose horizons he helped expand. When he inked his ground-breaking five-year deal with the Los Angeles Galaxy in 2007, it included a unique agreement that when he was done playing he would have the right to exercise an option to become an owner. Beckham and the Galaxy will be vying for a second straight title over the same team they beat last year, the Houston Dynamo.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 1^st, 2012.