{"id":416900,"date":"2011-05-04T08:16:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T08:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/04\/becks-eyes-on-gb-role\/"},"modified":"2011-05-04T08:16:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T08:16:26","slug":"becks-eyes-on-gb-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/04\/becks-eyes-on-gb-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Becks eyes on GB role"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"72.8494623656\">\n<div readability=\"7\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.skysports.com\/11\/05\/660x350\/IMAGE-BECKHAM-0205_2592049.jpg\" alt=\"Image text here\" height=\"350px\" width=\"660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Beckham: Wants to be part of GB squad<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former England captain David Beckham has reiterated his desire to be involved with the Great Britain Olympic side.<\/p>\n<p><span>Beckham, who turned 36 earlier this week, has already underlined his commitment to continue playing for another three years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>His current deal with Los Angeles Galaxy in America&#8217;s MLS is due to expire later this year, but he is not intending to retire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I would like to be a player of course but to just be part of the team would be incredible&#8221;<br \/><em>David Beckham<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skysports.com\/quotes\">Quotes of the week<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And that means Beckham will still be playing when the 2012 Olympics come around and he is hoping he will be involved in some capacity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Beckham was part of England&#8217;s coaching set-up at the World Cup finals last year, but he is hoping that he will be able to play in London next summer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;We will see. 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Beckham, who turned 36 earlier this week, has already underlined his commitment to continue playing for another three years. His current deal with Los Angeles Galaxy in America&#8217;s MLS is due to expire later this year, but he is not intending to retire. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":416901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-416900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Becks eyes on GB role - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/04\/becks-eyes-on-gb-role\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Becks eyes on GB role - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Beckham: Wants to be part of GB squad Former England captain David Beckham has reiterated his desire to be involved with the Great Britain Olympic side. 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