Beckham confronts 'disgraceful' $17m problem

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David Beckham has defended his $272 cardinal woody with Qatar, which involves being the look of the World Cup finals, saying shot "has the powerfulness to beryllium a unit for good".

The 47-year-old erstwhile England skipper is employed by the big federation to beforehand the FIFA World Cup, arsenic good arsenic a wider 10-year woody to spruik tourism successful the gulf country. He was portion of Qatar's tourism run for months starring into the tournament.

It's understood Beckham pocketed $17 cardinal for the World Cup play alone, but his beingness and promotion of a federation that rules homosexuality to beryllium illegal, has caused an uproar among shot fans successful England, particularly fixed Beckham's lasting arsenic an icon wrong the cheery community.

"For Beckham to judge the money, without successful immoderate mode acknowledging his past statements, his enactment for LGBTI+ community, oregon the existent contented arsenic it's unrecorded contiguous successful Qatar, is truly disgraceful," Australian shot large turned starring societal justness warrior Craig Foster precocious told Wide World of Sports.

In effect to caller criticism, a spokesperson for the erstwhile England skipper said:

"David has been progressive successful a fig of World Cups and different large planetary tournaments some arsenic a subordinate and an ambassador and helium has ever believed that athletics has the powerfulness to beryllium a unit for bully successful the world.

"Football, the astir fashionable athletics globally, has a genuine quality to bring radical unneurotic and marque a existent publication to communities.

"We recognize that determination are antithetic and powerfully held views astir engagement successful the Middle East but spot it arsenic affirmative that statement astir the cardinal issues has been stimulated straight by the archetypal World Cup being held successful the region.

"We anticipation that these conversations volition pb to greater knowing and empathy towards each radical and that advancement volition beryllium achieved."

English comedian Joe Lycett appeared to shred $17,000 successful protestation astatine Beckham's relation past month. Lycett has subsequently confirmed the wealth wasn't shredded, and was donated to a LGBTQ+ charity.

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