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...pretty good soccer player too. But it isn't just for his skills that Real Madrid paid Manchester United, the club for which Beckham played since he was 14, a sum of $41 million for his services. Europe's leading soccer clubs are becoming true global brands. Measured by its value on the open market, United is the most successful sports franchise in the world; Rupert Murdoch tried and failed to buy the club for $1 billion in 1998. With a worldwide fan base - in August, it's scheduled to play exhibition games before sold-out crowds...
...Deal For Real? Buying David Beckham enriches Real Madrid's commercial prospects but may leave it poorer on the pitch. Rumors swirling around the Spanish soccer club suggest the arrival of the English star has upset Luis Figo, Madrid's spiky-haired Portuguese ace. Figo plays on the right side of midfield, Beckham's best position. Although Figo is by common consent the better player, insiders say he is worried the club may give his role to the new guy for purely commercial reasons. Rather than warm the bench, Figo is said to be looking for another team. Europe...
...also leads in free-kick conversions, the English player's stock-in-trade. In fact, Madrid has two players who take free kicks better than Beckham: apart from Figo, there's also fullback Roberto Carlos. Why, then, did the Spanish club agree to pay €35 million for skills it already has? The answer to that question came last week from Tokyo, where Beckham and his wife Victoria arrived to promote a brand of chocolate and a chain of beauty salons. Wherever they went, Posh and Becks were mobbed by fans wearing Beckham shirts and waving Beckham dolls. Staking...
President Bush may have won a battle in Iraq, but terrorism will continue to threaten us all long after the last statue of Saddam Hussein has fallen. LEXY MOSTAZA Madrid...
...Madrid is a city full of single-lane roads, crowded cafés and neighborhood bread shops. Some streets are devoted almost entirely to shoe stores, others to books or electronics or trendy club wear. On Sundays, in a tradition dating back 500 years, the entire Rastro neighborhood becomes a vast outdoor flea market, where shoppers can get anything from a rug to a kitchen set to an automobile wheel. So does Madrid really need an American-style megamall - one that comes with a 250-m ski run? A developer called Mills Corp., based in Arlington, Virginia, is betting...