FRANCE: Bathed in fans, David Beckham makes his first appearance on the Champs Elysees in Paris

Record ID: 863305

  • Title: FRANCE: Bathed in fans, David Beckham makes his first appearance on the Champs Elysees in Paris
  • Date: 28th February 2013
  • Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (FEBRUARY 28, 2013) (REUTERS) CROWDS OUTSIDE SPORTS SHOP ON CHAMPS ELYSEES POSTER OUTSIDE SHOP SHOWING BECKHAM'S FACE BRITISH FOOTBALLER DAVID BECKHAM WALKING ONTO STAGE AND WAVING TO FANS SMARTPHONES AND TABLETS FILMING BECKHAM VARIOUS OF BECKHAM TALKING TO INTERVIEWER CROWDS FILMING WITH SMARTPHONES BECKHAM BEING INTERVIEWED CROWDS WITH FAN WAVING PARIS SAINT GERMAIN SCARF BECKHAM BEING INTERVIEWED CROWD AND FAN HOLDING PARIS SAINT GERMAIN SCARF VARIOUS OF BECKHAM ON STAGE PARIS SAINT GERMAIN FLAG (SOUNDBITE) (French) BECKHAM FAN YANNIS GIRIN SAYING: "I think David Beckham is one of the legends of football so the fact he's coming to Paris is a really good thing and the fact that you have this crowd is justified for a player like him in the French league." (SOUNDBITE) (English) BRITISH TOURIST KIRSTY BRANNAGH SAYING: "It's because he's an icon. He's a footballing icon and obviously he's so famous because of Victoria and all that." VARIOUS OF CROWD
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  • Topics: Sports
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  • Story Text: Several hundred fans turned out on Thursday (February 28) to cheer British soccer star and recent Paris Saint Germain signing David Beckham as he visited the a branch of a major sportswear brand, on the Champs Elysees, the French capital's main boulevard.
    To cheers and screams of the massed ranks of supporters, the clean-cut idol appeared under a giant poster of himself to be recorded by dozens of cellphones held aloft by mostly teenaged hands.
    Beckham, who earnt a yellow card in his his second match for PSG in their 2-0 home victory against Marseille on Wednesday, waved to the exuberant crowd.
    Beckham fan Yannis Girin said a star like Beckham was bound to draw huge crowds.
    "I think David Beckham is one of the legends of football so the fact he's coming to Paris is a really good thing and the fact that you have this crowd is justified for a player like him in the French league," he said.
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