{"id":9220,"date":"2015-11-20T17:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T17:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=9220"},"modified":"2015-11-20T17:00:48","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T17:00:48","slug":"beckham-back-at-old-trafford-with-famous-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/sport-health\/beckham-back-at-old-trafford-with-famous-friends","title":{"rendered":"Beckham Back at Old Trafford with Famous Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9231\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9231\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/Old-Trafford-640x360-px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9231\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/Old-Trafford-640x360-px.jpg\" alt=\"Old Trafford Stadium, home of the Manchester United football club.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/Old-Trafford-640x360-px.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/Old-Trafford-640x360-px-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/Old-Trafford-640x360-px-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9231\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/Old-Trafford-640x360-px.jpg\" alt=\"Old Trafford Stadium, home of the Manchester United football club.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/Old-Trafford-640x360-px.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/Old-Trafford-640x360-px-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/Old-Trafford-640x360-px-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Old Trafford Stadium, home of the Manchester United football club.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>David Beckham led Great Britain and <em>Irish<\/em> superstar players into 3-1 victory against Luis Figo\u2019s international team at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unicef.org.uk\/\">UNICEF<\/a> charity \u2018Match for Children\u2019 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manutd.com\/en\/Visit-Old-Trafford.aspx\">Old Trafford<\/a>, Manchester, on 14 November.<\/p>\n<p>With the cheapest ticket costing only 20 pound, more than 75,000 spectators watched football giants Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs and Sol Campbell returning to the field alongside Dwight Yorke, Ronaldinho, Van der Sar, whom formed the \u201cRest of the World\u201d team. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Beckham7?src=hash\">#Beckham7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MatchForChildren?src=hash\">#MatchForChildren<\/a> will support <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UNICEF?src=hash\">#UNICEF<\/a>\u2019s work to protect children from HIV &amp; AIDS in Swaziland <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w6aylc4yXM\">pic.twitter.com\/w6aylc4yXM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Unicef UK (@UNICEF_uk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UNICEF_uk\/status\/665566170125332480\">November 14, 2015<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The match was rather slow-paced. Under heavy shower, Beckham\u2019s team dominated ball possession. \u201cAlthough the game was not very attractive, I like it because I could see famous footballers for the first time. The stadium is also as beautiful as in the video games I played when I was a child,\u201d said 26 year-old Hung Nguyen from Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p>One of the night\u2019s highlight was when Brooklyn Beckham substituted for his father at minute 75. The cheers grew louder in less than 10 minutes, when the 40 year old father rejoined the team. \u201cHe did well for the 15 minutes. His first cross was great and his corner onto his dad\u2019s head,\u201d said proud Beckham about his son, as quoted by <em>Manchester United.com<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2>See reactions from the match.<\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-timeline\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MatchForChildren\" data-widget-id=\"673888661235179522\">#MatchForChildren Tweets<\/a>\/\/ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Beckham led Great Britain and Irish superstar players into 3-1 victory against Luis Figo\u2019s international team at the UNICEF charity \u2018Match for Children\u2019 at Old Trafford, Manchester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":9231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-health"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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