David Beckham says feud with Landon Donovan is over

The vacation with his family in the South of France is over.

The wedding anniversary trip with his wife, Victoria, to the Seychelles Islands is likewise in the past.

And David Beckham's feud with Galaxy teammate Landon Donovan?

"It's over," Beckham said this morning in Carson. "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."

That, in essence, was all that the more than five dozen reporters, photographers and television crews that showed up at the Home Depot Center got for their trouble. The biggest bust-up in Galaxy history has turned into a modest sound bite. Move along, please. No more fireworks here.

Beckham's first day back at practice with the team after his stint with AC Milan and subsequent holiday might have drawn a media throng, but real news was definitely in short supply.

Even Donovan, whose caustic remarks about Beckham's supposed lack of commitment to the Major League Soccer team had sparked the furor, was guarded in his comments.

"I regret it," Donovan said of the opinions he had expressed in a book, "The Beckham Experiment" by Sports Illustrated writer Grant Wahl, that will be released Tuesday.

Neither Beckham, Donovan, nor anyone else connected with the Galaxy would reveal when and where the showdown meeting had taken place.

Beckham would not elaborate. "I've said the other day everything that I needed to say," he said. "We spoke, the two of us, and also Bruce [Arena]," the Galaxy's coach and general manager, "and like I said, it's finished."

Beckham and the Galaxy will travel to New Jersey on Tuesday for a Thursday night game against the New York Red Bulls at Giants Stadium. It will be the English soccer star's first MLS game since October.

After that, the Galaxy will return to Los Angeles for a Sunday evening friendly against AC Milan, the Italian team that Beckham joined on a six-month loan from the Galaxy and to which he hopes to return in January, perhaps on a similar loan agreement.

The indication from Beckham today was that he would be back with the Galaxy after the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, assuming he is selected to play for England in the tournament next June and July.

"I intend to stay until the end of my contract and maybe further," he said. "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."