Upon his return home, he was met with harsh criticism from both the media and the public. The criticism affected Beckham. I want every fan to know how deeply sorry I am.
Despite the disappointment with England, he was a pivotal part of the successful Man Utd side of the mid-to-late s that dominated English football. In he helped the team win the treble. He had a key role in the Champions League final against Bayern, providing both the corners to set up Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer that enabled the Red Devils' historic comeback.
Beckham was the first ever English player to collect two red cards, and the first Three Lions captain to be sent off. His life, both on and off the pitch, has inspired such interest that Staffordshire University started offering a course on Beckham as well as the sociological implication of his career. The course, which is no longer available, is based on the notion that Beckham's World Cup disappointment defined an era in England not dissimilar to the way the assassination of John F.
Kennedy affected the United States. Beckham's time at Manchester United ended horribly, when he was hit in the head with a boot that manager Ferguson kicked in anger.
He then left Old Trafford shortly after. David has the number "99" tattooed on his finger, paying tribute to being the year in which he helped Man Utd win the treble, married Victoria and had his first son Brooklyn. He has a tattoo of Victoria's name in Sanskrit, but it is actually spelled incorrectly. The actual translation turned out to be "Vihctoria.
The couple named their first son Brooklyn as it was there when the couple found out that they were expecting. Elton John is godfather to Brooklyn and Romeo Beckham. And David Beckham, who's making his first-ever appearance on a GQ cover this April , is one of a small handful of people who befit that description.
Well, you'd be hard pressed to find a human being in the developed world who doesn't know who Beckham is, because the guy is pretty much everywhere. Before Becks was a model, a spokesperson, a businessman, a cover guy—or even a husband or father—he got famous being a world-class midfielder for Manchester United. He started training with the club as a teenager, but he made his first big splash at 21, in , when he scored a mind-melting goal against Wimbledon from behind midfield.
Because a guy scoring from behind mid-field almost never happens. He helped his team achieve considerable success in his eleven seasons with them. He also captained his club and country.
He was famously sent off in a match against Argentina in the World Cup. Beckham has many interests off the soccer pitch and is rarely out of the headlines, especially concerning his marriage and children.
He has established football academies in Los Angeles and London. In he was named a judge for the British Book Awards. He lives near Tom Cruise and the two are best buddies.
Beckham is also a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador. Mail this lesson to friends and teachers. Click the below. In he was named a. He won many trophies with. That an anagram of metatarsal, the foot bone he famously broke before the World Cup, is "a tart's lame" is almost too neat. Yet that profile was founded not on empty hype but exceptional footballing ability. Beckham genuinely achieved: 19 major trophies including 10 league titles; the only English player to win championships in four countries; scoring or providing assists in more than half of his top-flight games.
He could not beat a defender for pace, but he didn't have to - he would simply bend his crosses round them. He was an average tackler who seldom headed the ball, but possessed a right foot so precise and versatile that it was as if he had every golf club in the bag to hand - long drives, little chips, curving approaches, flighted dinks.
Paul Scholes, who retired just a few days earlier, was arguably a more complete midfielder. Liverpool fans will maintain a similar case for Steven Gerrard, Chelsea supporters for Frank Lampard. Ryan Giggs has won more and played longer for Manchester United. So how has Beckham surpassed them all on the global stage? He did not invent the template for sportsman as celebrity.
But he and his advisors did establish new methods and new parameters. And in his wife Victoria he has had a campaign manager and cheerleader like no-one else. England captains had married pop stars before. England stalwarts would marry them afterwards. But unlike Billy Wright, Beckham did so at a time when the media world was about to orbit celebrity like never before.
And unlike Ashley Cole, he also generally managed to retain the nation's goodwill. While his footballing career probably reached its zenith with the astonishing display against Greece in , his commercial appeal accelerated even as his on-pitch talents gently waned. He had already signed lucrative deals with Adidas, Pepsi and Brylcreem before signing to Simon Fuller's 19 Management in , but those endorsements would multiply in scale and status over the following decade.
His haircuts, banal though it might sound, changed British fashion. A film that borrowed his name gave back a phrase to popular culture. You could travel to the most backwater village in as distant a country as Cambodia or Laos and still see posters of him stuck up in bars and restaurants.
At times Beckham the brand has subjugated the footballer underneath. So successful has this endless brand extension been that his name has become a benchmark for a sportsman's marketability. Ever-present at his side has been perhaps the most influential presence of all, Victoria. His wife may have possessed no noticeable talent for singing, but in parlaying so little into such vast and lasting celebrity status she has revealed a strange sort of genius.
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