David Beckham
David Beckham
David Robert Joseph Beckham, OBEis an English former professional footballer. He played for Manchester United, Preston North End, Real Madrid, Milan, LA Galaxy, Paris Saint-Germain, and the England national team for which he holds the appearance record for an outfield player. He is the first English player to win league titles in four countries: England, Spain, the United States and France. He announced his retirement in May 2013 after a 20-year career, during which he won 19 major trophies. Known...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth2 May 1975
CityLondon, England
People don't think I've got the brains to be that clever.
People go on about my foul on Simeone and the red card but I'd obviously rather people talk about me scoring the penalty four years later,
Me? I would love to be famous in America. I like the American people and I like the way they look up to Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods . I'm sure they criticize their stars occasionally but it doesn't reach the point where they ever put down their own people and their own stars. That's what's nice for me.
The players and a lot of people in England knew it before this tournament but now Europe is finding out about Wayne Rooney. And we're very lucky to have such a good player in our team.
It's his decision where he will end up and I know that Celtic is the club he supports and people have linked him with there since he left United.
It was deliberate. I am sure some people think that I have not got the brains to be that clever, but I do have the brains.
It's disappointing when it happens anywhere in world football because we all know how wrong it is -- and so many people are working so hard to cut it out of the game.
Everyone's been so quick to say that I'm really thick or I haven't got a brain. People will think whatever they want to think.
People in Hong Kong are stylish and fashionable, which is one of the many reasons making Hong Kong itself such an energetic place.
In Spain people have lunch and dinner a lot later - when I return to England I'll have to eat alone at midnight.
I have always found it an honor that people have wanted to buy my shirt and an honor that fans turn up to watch the team I am playing in. I have always found that a huge honor.
No one's ever really given me any style advice. I wear what I want, and it doesn't matter what other people think.
I didn't expect it to come so quickly. It's been hard to keep up with. There's been articles in the papers that say I've got too big for my boots but people who know me say I'm just the same. Things have changed in my life but I haven't, too many people would knock me down if I did.
That goal [in the 1998 World Cup] changed me-not as a person, but as a player. People have looked at me differently ever since. It gave me confidence and now I feel I can achieve anything.