David Robert Joseph Beckham, born 2 May 1975) is an English footballer who plays midfield for Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer,having previously played for Manchester United, Preston North End, Real Madrid, and A.C. Milan, as well as the England national team, for whom he holds the all-time appearance record for an outfield player.
Beckham's career began when he signed a professional contract with Manchester United, making his first-team debut in 1992 aged 17. his time there, United won the Premier League title six times, the FA Cup twice, and the UEFA Champions League in 1999. He left Manchester United to sign for Real Madrid in 2003, where he remained for four seasons, clinching the La Liga championship in his final season with the club In January 2007, it was announced that Beckham would leave Real Madrid for the Major League Soccer club Los Angeles Galaxy, signing a five-year contract with them on 1 July 2007. While a Galaxy player, he spent two loan spells in Italy with Milan in 2009 and 2010.
In international football, Beckham made his England debut on 1 September 1996, at the age of 21. He was made captain from 15 November 2000until the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals during which he played 58 times. He earned a much-publicised hundredth cap against France on 26 March 2008, became the all-time outfield player appearance record holder on 28 March 2009 when he surpassed Bobby Moore's total of 108 caps.With 115 career appearances to date he has stated that he does not intend to retire from international football, having missed the 2010 World Cup through injury and not featuring in England manager Fabio Capello's post-World Cup plan
Beckham has twice been runner-up for FIFA World Player of the Year and in 2004 was the world's highest-paid footballer when taking into account salary and advertising deals.Beckham was the first British footballer to play 100 Champions League matches. He was most searched of all sports topics in both 2003 and 2004.With such global recognition he has become an elite advertising brand and a top fashion icon. When joining the MLS in 2007 he was given the highest player salary in the league's history, with his playing contract with the Galaxy over the next three years being worth $6.5m per year.
* 1 Club career
o 1.1 Childhood and early career
o 1.2 Manchester United
o 1.3 Real Madrid
o 1.4 Los Angeles Galaxy
o 1.5 Loan to Milan
o 1.6 Return to Galaxy
o 1.7 Second loan spell at Milan
o 1.8 Second return to Galaxy
* 2 International career
o 2.1 International goals
* 3 Coaching career
* 4 Discipline
* 5 Honours
o 5.1 Club
o 5.2 International
o 5.3 Individual
+ 5.3.1 Orders and special awards
* 6 Statistics
* 7 David Beckham Academy
* 8 Personal life
o 8.1 Affair claims
o 8.2 Legal issues
* 9 Fame beyond football
* 10 Charitable work
* 11 Appearances in films
o 11.1 Bend It Like Beckham
o 11.2 The Goal! Trilogy
* 12 Records
* 13 Tattoos
* 14 See also
* 15 References
o 15.1 Books
o 15.2 Internet
* 16 External links
Beckham was born at Whipps Cross University Hospital in Leytonstone, London, England He is the son of Sandra Georgina (née West) (b. 1949), a hairdresser, and David Edward Alan "Ted" Beckham (b. Edmonton, London, July–September 1948), a kitchen fitter, who married at the London Borough of Hackney in 1969 regularly played football in Ridgeway Park, Chingford, as a child, and attended Chase Lane Primary School and Chingford Foundation SchoolIn a 2007 interview, Beckham said that, "At school whenever the teachers asked, 'What do you want to do when you're older?' I'd say, 'I want to be a footballer.' And they'd say, 'No, what do you really want to do, for a job?' But that was the only thing I ever wanted to do.Beckham's maternal grandfather was Jewish and Beckham has referred to himself as "half Jewishand wrote in his autobiography "I've probably had more contact with Judaism than with any other religion In his book Both Feet on the Ground, he stated that growing up he attended church every week with his parents and his older sister, Lynne Georgina and younger sister, Joanne Louise
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