Beckham to give PSG salary away to kids in need

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Published time: January 31, 2013 22:01
Edited time: February 01, 2013 02:01

David Beckham (Reuters / Gonzalo Fuentes)

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Football’s star-veteran, David Beckham, will forward all the money he’ll receive at his new club Paris Saint-Germain to charity.

PSG and Beckham signed a deal on Thursday, with the 37-year-old to play in the French capital till the end of the season.

"For the moment, we have decided to go until the end of the current season and then look at how we can continue the adventure,” Beckham is cited as saying by the club’s official website. “It's true that PSG's sporting project is very exciting and I would love to commit myself in the long term to help develop the club. But everything happened very quickly and we didn't have the time to discuss the long term."

PSG, which became one of the main players on the global transfer market after being acquired by the Qatar Investment Authority, has been hunting for Becks for over a year.

"Last year wasn't the right time,” the Englishman explained. “I still wanted to achieve some great things with Los Angeles, win another title. Leonardo and I decided it would be best to wait a little. When my contract expired in the USA, we re-opened negotiations. In talking with Leonardo and Nasser [Al-Khelaifi], I saw very quickly that we could achieve some great things together. We decided that I will not receive any salary for these five months. Instead, we will make donations to the charities already supported by the PSG Foundation. It's an excellent idea that everyone very quickly agreed upon."

Beckham will become the oldest player in the French Ligue 1, but he says he still has strength and desire to perform at the highest level.

“I feel in perfect physical condition,” he stressed. “I still have an enormous passion and hunger for the game and I'm delighted to get another chance to give everything on the pitch. We'll see how it goes and how I feel at the end of the season. Money is not my number one motivation, as you would have seen by the conditions in my contract. My goal has always been to play with the biggest clubs in the world alongside the best players on the planet. Today, that's the case with Paris Saint-Germain."

The former England’s captain has been a free agent since leaving the LA Galaxy in MLS this December.

During his 20-year career, Beckham has played for such sides as Manchester United, Real Madrid and AC Milan.

The iconic midfielder has won six English Premier League titles, the Spanish La Liga, two MLS crowns as well as the UEFA Champions League in 1998–99.

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Zhen (unregistered) 01.02.2013 09:01

Matthew 6:1-4 - "Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven. 2 Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 3 But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly." Christ is using hyperbole in v3 (a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis) to stress the importance of doing charitable deeds SECRETLY. Think of our modern setting, in which many benefactors make charitable donations mainly for PR purposes…accompani ed by press releases, news reporters, perhaps even live television coverage (sounding a trumpet before them)…to be seen as generous, caring and concerned. Such charity arises from insincere motives, and while it does indeed benefit the recipient, Jesus says that its only reward to the giver will be the praise that men offer. On the other hand, charity that arises only from true concern for the recipient should be anonymous (the point of the hyperbole). The giver, seeking NO praise for his generosity, will be rewarded by God rather than men. The aim is to let your guard down. Next time the main Western philanthropist Bill Gates arranges free vaccinations for the children of Africa, most of those naïve Africans will fall for this deceit.

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Yavin (unregistered) 01.02.2013 04:26

What is true giving? Let's learn from a story here.The Widow’s Two MitesAnd He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury, and He saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites. So He said, “Truly I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all; for all these out of their abundance have put in offerings for God,[a] but she out of her poverty put in all the livelihood that she had.”

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jha (unregistered) 31.01.2013 22:49

tfou...

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