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66 Football fable David Beckham has reportedly been forced to permission a edifice successful Qatar, worthy an eye-watering $36,000 per nighttime to enactment at.
The 47-year-old erstwhile England skipper is employed by the big federation to beforehand the FIFA World Cup, arsenic good arsenic wider tourism successful the gulf country.
It's a lucrative duty - reportedly being paid $17 cardinal for the World Cup play unsocial - but one that has attracted plentifulness of criticism.
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Beckham has paraded arsenic an icon to the cheery assemblage for 2 decades, but homosexuality is amerciable successful Qatar and punishable by prison, oregon decease if you are Muslim.
The sporting icon was booked into the Mandarin Oriental successful Doha according to aggregate reports, wherever helium had been staying successful the Baraha View suite - for which guests wage an exorbitant price.
But the Mail Online reports that past week fans became alert of wherever Beckham was staying, making it perchance unsafe for him, and forcing him to discreetly power hotels.
It's not suggested Beckham had a run-in with immoderate fans during his stay.
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