Manchester United's American owners, the Glaziers, listed the soccer club on the New York Stock Exchange in August and its growing commercial success is highly dependent on performances on the pitch, according to Joshua Raymond, a market strategist at London-based financial services firm, CityIndex.

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The Yankees are partnering with Manchester City to own Major League Soccer's 20th team, which will be called New York City Football Club and plans to start play in the 2015 season.

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The first time Beckham came to New York, he was 23 years old, a superstar for the planet's most famous soccer club, Manchester United.

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It comes a day after City said it had acquired the rights to Major League Soccer's (MLS) 20th expansion franchise from 2015 in a partnership with the New York Yankees baseball club.

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