Wellington  - A year after David Beckham drew the biggest crowd ever to watch a football match in New Zealand his star attraction appears to be fading, according to news reports on Friday.

Organizers of an exhibition match between Beckham's LA Galaxy side and an Oceania All Stars XI in Auckland on Saturday were advertising two tickets for the price of one to try to fill the 32,000-seat Mount Smart Stadium.

Only 14,000 tickets had been sold by Thursday night, the New Zealand Herald reported.

Wellington, Dec 4 : For soccer ace David Beckham, New Zealand is one of the “nicest” places in the world.

While promoting Saturday''s LA Galaxy-Oceania All Stars game, Beckham revealed that he would look forward to visits to New Zealand at the end of his career, and thinks "this is one of the nicest places I''ve been."

"It''s an amazingly beautiful country, the people are great to us," the NZPA quoted him as saying.

On being asked if he ever considered playing rugby, Beckham said he had tried it but decided it wasn''t the game for him.

Melbourne, Dec 2 : Starting off as the permanent mark of the working class, tattoos became cool as they touched bodies of stars like Angelina Jolie and David Beckham. But as it turns out, the ‘eternal’ body art doesn’t hold its fervour anymore, at least in case of Aussies.

According to a recent survey of 1000 Australians aged between 18 and 70, tattoos are not anymore in vogue and are a big turn-off for majority of participants.

Over 50 percent of respondents think that body art on the opposite sex make them less attractive. And surprisingly, women are more forgiving than men.

London, Dec 1 : ‘Goldenboots’ David Beckham is poised to become the United States vice-president of the world’s biggest sports and entertainment firm.

The former England captain is all set to take a top executive role in giant company AEG, whose president is LA Galaxy owner Tim Leiweke.

The football ace has been promised the lucrative boardroom job after getting through with playing, and he is likely to become a big investor in the firm which owns and operates stadia worldwide, including London’s Millennium Dome and O2 Arena.

London, Nov 25 : Brit chef Gordon Ramsay has turned to his close pal footballer David Beckham for advice after being accused of cheating on his wife.

Ramsay, 42, is said to have asked 33-year-old Becks how to handle the allegations linking him to Sarah Symonds after they came to light at the weekend.

Becks had been in a similar situation when the Rebecca Loos scandal broke in 2004, and sources closes to Ramsay said that he spoke to the former England football captain to see how he coped with being accused of cheating on wife Victoria, 34.

London, Nov 20 : Soccer ace David Beckham was reportedly spotted getting cosy with Francesca Leiweke as they watched an LA Lakers basketball game together.

Beckham had always been spotted sneaking glances at cheerleaders, but this time the LA Galaxy star only had eyes for Leiweke, who fans noticed like a younger and curvier version of Becks wife Victoria.

Last time the couple lived apart when he played for Real Madrid, Becks was alleged to have bedded Rebecca Loos, 31.