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Coe says no pressure to pick Becks

DAVID Beckham will have to earn his place in Britain's Olympic soccer squad on skill and merit like any other player and can expect no special favors.

"We have put absolutely no pressure on Stuart Pearce at all," LOCOG chairman Seb Coe said.

"Stuart has to pick the team that he thinks will lift that (Olympic) trophy. I wouldn't expect any coach to be operating on any other basis, whether its wrestling or Olympic football," added Coe. "You can never put pressure on coaches to choose people for any particular reason other than skill and merit."

No longer a part of England's international and living in Los Angeles, Beckham has said repeatedly that he wants to play for the first United British soccer team to compete at the Olympics since 1960.

 

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