Beckham Comes to China Supporting Youth Soccer
Staff Reporter | | Jun 19, 2013 02:50 PM EDT |

In the morning of 17th June 2013, Beijing time, the retired player, Beckham, arrives atCapital Airport by his private airplane. Beckham's schedule is also very tight this time,which has the theme of raising capital for the development of Youth Soccer. In thatafternoon, he donates six very treasurable sports wears, a sports car, a famous watch andsome treasures from Victoria, Beckham's wife. Zhenhua Cai, deputy director of the StateSports General Administration, hopes Beckham can help more Chinese players getimprovement in the perspective of both spiritual level and professional quality.
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In the conference meeting, Beckham emphasizes more on the original intention ofparticipating in the Chinese Youth Charity activities, "Every Chinese journey isimpressive for me. I was a player last time I came to China, and I am retired right now.My purpose for this time is to do some extension work, letting more and more teenagersenjoy such kind of sports and keep healthy body. Because I have four cute children, mywife and I pay a lot of attention to the development of teenagers. Those donations arereally important to me and I hope I can raise more money donation to Chinese children."After the donation, Beckham goes to the State Sports General Administration and meetswith Zhenhua Cai.
During the meeting, Zhenhua Cai thanked Beckham, "Beckham's help on Chinesefootball can enhance Image of Chinese Football, promote Chinese Football, and let thewhole world know more about Chinese Football."
"Beckham shows his healthy, tenacious spirit, advanced professional quality and theenthusiasm to the football. Although it is hard for our players to have the same hightechniques as Beckham, I really hope Beckham can have more positive influences onChinese players. "
Beckham replies, "Although I leave the football court, I won't leave this kind of sports. Iam full of enthusiasm to this sport. I hope I can let more Chinese teenagers love thissports and persuade more Chinese parents to let them believe that football is a kind ofsafe and interesting sports."
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