Beckham Talks Up England's Bid To Host 2018 World Cup

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David Beckham, ex football captain for England and midfielder for LA Galaxy, is passionately championing England's campaign to host the 2018 World Cup, making good use of his celebrity status to boost the campaign which has encountered a few struggles recently.

He is in SA for the World Cup draw which takes place at 5pm in Cape Town today. He told reporters he is confident that England could stage a highly successful World Cup. England are the favourites to host the tournament in 2018, though a few divisions internally had marred their good work, Beckham is insisting they are back on track after a positive meeting with Warner on Wednesday. He acknowledged there is still a lot of hard work to be done saying, Nothing in life is easy, you have to work for special things to be given to you.

He added that the UK already has enough stadia and the right infrastructure to host the event and the country also has residents of many different nations living there already, and therefore many fans from numerous national teams. He said that England has one of the biggest league teams in the world, with the Premier League having ...
... a massive global following.

FIFA will decide on the 2018 hosts next year. England faces competition from Australia, Indonesia, Japan and Russia as well as from joint bids from Belgium and the Netherlands and Spain and Portugal.