David Beckham

Born in Leytonstone on May 2, 1975, David Robert Joseph Beckham was a

Manchester United fan from a very early age. He even insisted on wearing a Red
Devils shirt when training with London club Tottenham Hotspur as a schoolboy. The
admiration was mutual – the biggest football club in the world had its eye on the
young player.
Soccer has always been the biggest thing in David Beckham's life. He used
to play for hours when he was a kid. Beckham and his father would kick the ball
around until it was too dark to see each other. Because he was always kicking the
ball around, David Beckham never did all that well at school. Beckham failed out
when he was 16 and went to play soccer for Manchester United's Jr. Team. David
played his first pro game for Manchester two years later when he was 18. By 1996,
David Beckham was a regular with the team and one of the most popular players in
England - by helping the team win an FA Cup and a Premier Division title in the
same year.
In 1997, Beckham started dating Victoria Adams, after she attended a
Manchester United match. She was famously known as "Posh Spice" of the pop
music group Spice Girls, one of the world's top pop groups at the time, and his
team was also enjoying a great run of success. Therefore, their relationship
instantly attracted a great deal of media attention. The couple were dubbed "Posh
and Becks" by the media. He proposed to Victoria on 24 January 1998 in a
restaurant in Cheshunt, England.
He married Adams at Luttrellstown Castle, Ireland on 4 July 1999, and her
name changed to Victoria Beckham. The wedding attracted tremendous media
coverage. Beckham's teammate Gary Neville was the best man, and the couple's son
Brooklyn, then four months old, was the ring bearer. The media were kept away
from the ceremony, as the Beckham had an exclusive deal with OK! Magazine, but
newspapers were still able to obtain photographs showing them sitting on golden
thrones. 437 staff were employed for the wedding reception, which was estimated
to have cost £500,000.
In 1999, the Beckham purchased their most famous home, unofficially
dubbed Buckingham Palace in Hertfordshire, north of London. It is estimated to be
worth £7.5 million. David and Victoria have three sons together: Brooklyn Joseph
Beckham (born 4 March 1999 in London, England), Romeo James Beckham (born 1
September 2002 in London, England), and Cruz David Beckham (born 20 February
2005 in Madrid, Spain [the word "cruz" is Spanish for "cross"]). Both Brooklyn and
Romeo's godfather is Elton John and godmother is Elizabeth Hurley. They have
stated that they would like to have more children, especially a daughter.
In 2002, David Beckham helped England advance to the quarter-finals of the
World Cup of Soccer in Korea and Japan, where the English lost to the eventual
champions from Brazil. In 2003, David Beckham was transferred to Real Madrid
for a mind-boggling $40 million. After a disappointing season with Real Madrid,
David Beckham is hoping he can lead England to victory in Euro 2004. In April
2007, the family purchased their new Italian villa in Beverly Hills, California, to
coincide with Beckham's transfer to the Los Angeles Galaxy in July. The mansion,
priced at $22 million, is near the homes of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, and talk-
show host Jay Leno, in an exclusive gated community in the hills overlooking the
city.
David Beckham's success in soccer means he's now making a ton of cash.
David Beckham makes more than $15 million dollars a year playing for Real Madrid
and zillions more from advertising endorsements. That's allowed him to pick up
some nice toys as well. Beckham now owns seven cars, including a custom built
Ferrari, a Porsche 911, a Range Rover, and a Jaguar. When David Beckham's not
scoring goals for his team, he hangs out with his wife, Victoria Adams and their
sons Brooklyn (born in March 1999,) and Romeo, (born in September, 2002. They
also have two dogs named Snoop and Puffy (after Beckham's favorite rappers, Puff
Daddy and Snoop Dog). So between scoring goals, making music and cleaning up
after their son and dogs, this family keeps very busy.
Beckham has captained England 59 times during his tenure as England
captain, one of the most in England's history. With his free kick goal against
Ecuador in the second round of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Beckham gained
membership into two of football's exclusive clubs: he became the only English
player — and the 21st player regardless of nationality — to score in three world
cups; Real Madrid teammate Raúl also achieved this feat a few days earlier. It also
made him only the fifth player in World Cup history to score twice from a direct
free kick; the other four were Pelé, Roberto Rivelino, Teófilo Cubillas, and Bernard
Genghini (Beckham had previously scored this way against Colombia in the first
round of the 1998 FIFA World Cup). All three goals were against South American
teams (Colombia, Argentina, and Ecuador) and from set pieces (the two
aforementioned free kicks and a penalty against Argentina).
Beckham is set to kick off his film career with a movie trilogy called Goal!.
The film would mark his first major part in a feature film. He plays himself & will
be seen in all 3 segments of the trilogy.