When Beckham announced in January that he would be moving to the Los Angeles Galaxy when his Real contract expired, Calderon launched a blistering verbal attack on the England midfielder.

Calderon said Beckham was only joining the MLS because no other club would have him.

"David Beckham is going to be some sort of film actor living in Hollywood," Calderon said.

Those comments were made before Beckham played a key role in helping Madrid win the Spanish title, with the former England captain's form prompting the Spanish giants to try and find a way to keep him at the club.

Last week, on a visit to New York, Calderon met with Garber and apologized.

"I met with Ramon Calderon who said some not nice things about MLS, about this whole thing together with Beckham," Garber said.

"He apologized and then we spent a lot of time talking about how pleasantly surprised he was with the development of the sport in this country."

Calderon had been in New York last week to announce the opening of soccer schools in the United States and promote the newly crowned Spanish champions with plans for future U.S. tours and the creation of realmadridamerica.com, an English-language website aimed at North American fans.