Beckham the peacemaker? LA 星雲 to play 国家の team of Iran, where he is 深い尊敬の念を抱くd as 冒険的な hero and fashion icon

Last updated at 14:11 24 April 2008


緊張s between Iran and the U.S. could be 緩和するd next month - by David Beckham.

The football 星／主役にする's club, LA 星雲, has 招待するd the Iranian 国家の team to visit for a friendly match.

The game would be a 抱擁する 攻撃する，衝突する with the football crazy 全住民 in Iran where Beckham is a 祝日，祝うd 冒険的な hero and fashion icon. He smoulders from posters on the bedroom 塀で囲むs of millions of 十代の少年少女s.

"The American club has asked for a friendly match with Iran's football team," said Hassan Ghaffari, the 長，率いる of the foreign relations 委員会 of Iran's football 連合.

Selling tickets for the friendly will be no problem in Los Angeles, which is home to so many Iranian 国外追放／海外移住s that Iranians have 愛称d the city Tehrangeles.

Iran's proudest footballing moment （機の）カム ten years ago when the 国家の team （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 the US 2-1 in the World Cup in フラン. It was also a victory for sportsmanship and 外交 - the Iranian footballers gave the American team flowers before the kick-off.

Then-US 大統領 法案 Clinton was also keen on better 関係 with a country 大統領 Bush later branded part of an "axis of evil".

Clinton sent a テレビ放送するd 好意／親善 message to Iranians during the historic match.

David Beckham is seen as a 広大な／多数の／重要な sportsman and his poster adorns millions of 塀で囲むs in Iran

How times have changed. Hilary Clinton on Tuesday 脅すd to "obliterate" Iran if it 開始する，打ち上げるd a 核の attack on イスラエル.

The sabre-動揺させるing 供給するs the ideal 適切な時期 for Beckham to spearhead football 外交. Not that he is beloved by all Iranians.

As 市長 of Tehran in 2003 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ? now the 強行路線 大統領，／社長 ? ordered Beckham's 直面する to be 黒人／ボイコットd out on 広告 vertising billboards in the Iranian 資本／首都. It was an 明らかな （激しい）反発 against the growing 影響（力） of Western culture.

In the same year Beckham was 報道によれば 辞退するd 入ること／参加（者） into Tehran - because he was too popular with the country's 青年.

His ビザ request was turned 負かす／撃墜する on “国家の 安全” grounds because the 当局 恐れるd that 抱擁する （人が）群がるs of fans dogging his every 外見 could have turned into unruly 抗議するs against the Islamic 政権.

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