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David Beckham
English footballer (born 1975)
David Robert Joseph Beckham (BEK-əm; born 2 May 1975) is an English former professional footballer, the president and co-owner of Inter Miami CF and co-owner of Salford City. Primarily a right winger and known for his range of passing, crossing ability and free-kick taking, Beckham has been hailed as one of the greatest and most recognisable midfielders of his generation, as well as one of the best free-kick takers of all time. He won 19 major trophies in his career, and is the first English player to win league titles in four different countries: England, Spain, the United States and France.
Beckham's professional club career began with Manchester United, where he made his first-team debut in 1992 at age 17. With United, he won the Premier League title six times, the FA Cup twice, the FA Charity Shield twice, the Intercontinental Cup and the UEFA Champions League in 1999. He then played four seasons with Real Madrid, winning the La Liga championship in his final season with the club. In July 2007, Beckham signed a five-year contract with Major League Soccer club LA Galaxy. While a Galaxy player, he spent two loan spells in Italy with AC Milan in 2009 and 2010. He became the first British footballer to play 100 UEFA Champions League games. Following a four-month stint at Paris Saint-Germain, he retired in May 2013 after a 20-year career.
In international football, Beckham made his England debut on 1 September 1996, at the age of 21. He was captain for six years, earning 58 caps during his tenure. He made 115 career appearances in total, appearing at three FIFA World Cups in 1998, 2002 and 2006 as well as two UEFA European Championships in 2000 and 2004. Beckham held the England appearance record for an outfi A decade spent marauding up United’s right wing contributed to the most successful period in the club’s history, and his 57-yard strike against Wimbledon is surely one of the most replayed goals of all time. He followed in the footsteps of his boyhood idol Bryan Robson by eventually captaining England, and he is the only England player to have scored in three different World Cups.The story began in July 1991 when a lifelong United fan moved north from Leytonstone to sign apprentice forms for the Reds. He formed part of the Class of ‘92 that won the FA Youth Cup along with Ryan Giggs, Nicky Butt, Paul Scholes and Gary Neville but had to wait for his league debut - at home to Leeds United on 2 April 1995. The departure of Andrei Kanchelskis freed up a place of the right of midfield, and Beckham made it his own. Bagging the winner in the FA Cup semi-final against Chelsea proved he was a man for the big occasion, and the season ended with United winning a second Double. Beckham began the 1996/97 campaign with that goal from the halfway line at Selhurst Park and a month later began his England journey with a debut against Moldova. That season brought another Premiership medal, but in 1998 Arsenal took the title back as Beckham headed for the World Cup in France. After being left out of the starting line-up for England’s first two matches, he then scored a stunning free-kick against Colombia and was hailed a national hero. It wasn’t to last. Facing Argentina in the second round, he was sent off for a foul on Diego Simeone and ten-man England were knocked out. Mocked by the press and vilified by fans across the country, he was welcomed back into the arms of the United family. Beckham responded by scoring a trademark free-kick against Leicester City in the first Premier League game of 1998/99, and went on to enjoy a season that would have been beyond his wildest dreams as the Reds won the Treble. Among his many contributions to that glorious campaign were A profile of David Beckham, the shy boy who became the world's most famous soccer player and his love/hate relationship with the public and his rollercoaster-ride with the tabloids, their front-page favorite. His talent was obvious at an early age, but talent alone is not enough, because the world is full of talented people who didn't become anything. But his father would make sure David's talent wasn't wasted, as he was doing a lot of practicing with his son, especially passing and crossing the ball - the very trademark of Beckham today: the pinpoint accurate crosses. All this training was soon to pay off. In 1986, aged 11, David Beckham won a Bobby Charlton Soccer Skills Award. The trophy was presented at Old Trafford; a place that would later become like another home to David. Also included in the prize for winning the Soccer Skills Award was a trip to FC Barcelona to train with them for two weeks under Terry Venables, Barcelona’s coach at that time. And actually, Alex Ferguson was the main reason for David choosing Manchester United instead of Tottenham, because when David came to United, the first thing that happened was that Alex Ferguson came over to him and sai For all his incredible talent and hard work, David Beckham's success owes much to the input of seven key men in his life… Ted Beckham Like most doting dads, Ted Beckham was desperate to see his young son succeed in football. From the endless hours of practice in the park, to taking David to watch and later take part in his own games of football, Ted was there for him from day one. "David had a very special talent for playing the game," he explained in David Beckham, My Son. "I knew he had been given an extraordinary gift and it was my job to try and bring it out. It wasn't long before that job took over my life.” Ted's influence on the park was largely responsible for creating the player we saw every week. He would oversee David's free-kick practice until late at night, rewarding him with a pat on the back and an extra 50p every time he hit an intended target. He would also kick the ball as high as he could for David to trap it to improve his control; the pass-and-move style we later saw was a Beckham-senior trademark. "My skills come from working with dad in the local park," David said in his autobiography, My Side. "We would work on passing, crossing and shooting from as soon as I got home from school until 11 o'clock at night. I knew that I would have to put that work in to make it into the Manchester United first team." Ted would later follow David to every game and, ultimately, gifted his son with the support that would not only help him through the pitfalls of professional football, but also life. "Even now," he says, "I think I still judge myself by the standards I learnt from mum and dad." Stuart Underwood "A massive bloke with a booming voice and a fantastic presence about him," was the way Beckham described the man who knocked on his door asking about his availability after he had spotted him playing in the loc David
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The Dream Comes True
Naturally, Beckham's talent didn't go unnoticed for long and he was invited to have trials with Leyton Orient and Tottenham Hotspur's School of Excellence, but it was Manchester United that was the lucky winner in securing the signing of David Beckham as a trainee in 1991. Well, actually it wasn't because of luck, because David had always wanted to be a United player. And it wasn't just David who wanted United; United also wanted David; not least Alex Ferguson himself, who thought David was a special talent. The men who made David Beckham