Soccer: David Beckham and LA Galaxy land in NZ

Football star David Beckham arrived at Auckland Airport to a powhiri and around 100 fans this morning.

Beckham wasn't talking to media but after several waiata and a haka performed by Te Waihono a Kupe he hugged several fans and signed some autographs.

Avid fan Ben Buist had been waiting since 7pm "just to get a good spot".

But others such as Craig Pilcher had just come off a plane and wandered over to see what the crowd was for.

"It was a bit of a fluke, my brother is going to the game this weekend," he said.

LA Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena thanked the crowd and the kapa haka group for "such a fabulous welcome".

He said the team was looking forward to their visit to NZ and the game on Saturday.

Beckham's LA Galaxy will play an Oceania XI at Mt Smart stadium on Saturday.

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[georgewtwat]

"were doing the haka - every couple of minutes"

[airforcer4]

when he went to nz he was training in a stadium in nz i went there,

it was quite boring tho

[darko123456]

OMG, Can we just stop with the haka..

[rustydevilll]

I love how he is actually enjoying the preformance

other celebs are so ignorant towards it.

[riquelme217]

Go Los Angeles Galaxy. Long live Landon Donovan. To bad that David Beckham is not here anymore. Long live David Beckham.