{"id":464365,"date":"2023-10-04T12:59:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T16:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=464365"},"modified":"2023-10-04T12:59:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T16:59:58","slug":"beckham-proud-to-have-been-2022-world-cup-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/beckham-proud-to-have-been-2022-world-cup-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Beckham proud to have been 2022 World Cup ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Beckham shared he feels proud to have been chosen as 2022 World Cup ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>He came under severe scrutiny due to the countries oppression against same-sex relationship and exploitation of migrant workers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udde3 &quot;I had a lot of conversations with the LGBTQ community when I was there&#8230; They felt it was the safest World Cup they&#39;d had for a long time.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>David Beckham says he was &#39;proud&#39; to be an ambassador for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar \ud83c\uddf6\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AmzNT7wFFl\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/AmzNT7wFFl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsNews\/status\/1709534393625116760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had a lot of conversations with the LGBTQ community when I was there and they said they&#8217;d been treated perfectly fine,&#8221; Beckham told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They felt it was the safest World Cup they have had for a long time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Many LGBTQ supporters infamously boycotted the tournament given the countries treatment of the community.<\/p>\n<p>The condition of migrant workers was also severely criticised, but overall the event went peacefully without major dramas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To be involved in another World Cup for me was important. I&#8217;ve always said football is a game that should be shared around the world.&#8221; Beckham added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was an opportunity for another nation, for the Arab world to host one of the biggest sporting events in the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was an important competition and one I was proud to be part of.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Beckham shared he feels proud to have been chosen as 2022 World Cup ambassador. He came under severe scrutiny due to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":447400,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21645,20266],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[21646,20374],"acf":{"announce":"The former Man United and Real Madrid player was selected as a high-profile figure during last year's biggest event","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/464365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/464365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464366,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/464365\/revisions\/464366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464365"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=464365"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=464365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}