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![]() Beckham at the 2014 Wimbledon Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | David Robert Joseph Beckham 2 May 1975 London, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Organisation(s) | UNICEF, Malaria No More[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Agent | Simon Fuller (XIX Entertainment) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[2][3][4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Victoria Adams (m. 1999) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Children | 4, including Brooklyn and Romeo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relatives | Nicola Peltz (daughter-in-law) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Website | davidbeckham |
David Beckham (born 2 May 1975)[5] is a former English association football player and businessman. He is now the majority owner of MLS team Inter Miami CF and the minority owner of EFL League Two club Salford City F.C..
In June 2003, Queen Elizabeth II gave David Beckham an OBE. In January 2005, David Beckham became a UNICEF ambassador.
When he moved from Manchester United F.C. to Real Madrid in 2003, he became the highest paid footballer in the world (this has long since been surpassed).
David Beckham was born at Whipps Cross University Hospital in London, England.[6] He was the son of Ted and Sandra Georgina West.[7] He grew up in the Manchester football youth system along with Ryan Giggs, Nicky Butt, Phil Neville, Gary Neville, and Paul Scholes who all turned out to be famous footballers. Beckham’s maternal grandfather was Jewish,[8] and he describes himself as "half-Jewish",[9] and wrote in his autobiography "I've probably had more contact with Judaism than with any other religion".[10]
From 1992 through 2003, he played for Manchester United in the Premier League.
After leaving Manchester United, he signed a four-year contract with Real Madrid which ended in June 2007.
From 2007 to 2012, he played for LA Galaxy in the United States. He was loaned out to AC Milan of Italy for the 2008 - 2009 and the 2009 - 2010 seasons before joining the Galaxy again.
He played for Paris Saint-Germain in Ligue 1 until the end of the 2012/13 season. After the season ended, he retired.
He played for England for 13 years, from 1996 until 2009. He was dropped from the England team after giving up his England captaincy but regained his place in the England squad when Fabio Capello became the England manager in 2008.
David Beckham's wife is singer Victoria Beckham. Some people call her Posh Spice because she was a member of the Spice Girls. The couple have three sons: Brooklyn Joseph Beckham (born 4 March 1999 in London), Romeo James Beckham (born 1 September 2002 in London), and Cruz David Beckham (born 20 February 2005 in Madrid, Spain), and a daughter Harper Beckham (born 2 July 2011). She is also the youngest member of the Beckham family.
Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | League cup[b] | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Manchester United[11] | 1992–93 | Premier League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 1 | 0 | |
1993–94 | Premier League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
1994–95 | Premier League | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1[c] | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | |
1995–96 | Premier League | 33 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2[d] | 0 | – | 40 | 8 | ||
1996–97 | Premier League | 36 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10[c] | 2 | 1[e] | 1 | 49 | 12 | |
1997–98 | Premier League | 37 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8[c] | 0 | 1[e] | 0 | 50 | 11 | |
1998–99 | Premier League | 34 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 12[c] | 2 | 1[e] | 0 | 55 | 9 | |
1999–2000 | Premier League | 31 | 6 | – | 0 | 0 | 12[c] | 2 | 5[f] | 0 | 48 | 8 | ||
2000–01 | Premier League | 31 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12[c] | 0 | 1[e] | 0 | 46 | 9 | |
2001–02 | Premier League | 28 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13[c] | 5 | 1[e] | 0 | 43 | 16 | |
2002–03 | Premier League | 31 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 13[c] | 3 | – | 52 | 11 | ||
Total | 265 | 62 | 24 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 83 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 394 | 85 | ||
Preston North End (loan) | 1994–95 | Third Division | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | |
Real Madrid | 2003–04 | La Liga | 32 | 3 | 4 | 2 | – | 7[c] | 1 | 2[g] | 1 | 45 | 7 | |
2004–05 | La Liga | 30 | 4 | 0 | 0 | – | 8[c] | 0 | – | 38 | 4 | |||
2005–06 | La Liga | 31 | 3 | 3 | 1 | – | 7[c] | 1 | – | 41 | 5 | |||
2006–07 | La Liga | 23 | 3 | 2 | 1 | – | 6[c] | 0 | – | 31 | 4 | |||
Total | 116 | 13 | 9 | 4 | – | 28 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 155 | 20 | |||
LA Galaxy[12] | 2007 | Major League Soccer | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 2[h] | 1 | 7 | 1 | ||
2008 | Major League Soccer | 25 | 5 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 25 | 5 | |||
2009 | Major League Soccer | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 4[i] | 0 | 15 | 2 | |||
2010 | Major League Soccer | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 3[i] | 0 | 10 | 2 | |||
2011 | Major League Soccer | 26 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 4[i] | 0 | 30 | 2 | |||
2012 | Major League Soccer | 24 | 7 | 0 | 0 | – | 1[j] | 1 | 6[i] | 0 | 31 | 8 | ||
Total | 98 | 18 | 0 | 0 | – | 1 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 118 | 20 | |||
AC Milan (loan) | 2008–09 | Serie A | 18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | 2[d] | 0 | – | 20 | 2 | ||
2009–10 | Serie A | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 2[c] | 0 | – | 13 | 0 | |||
Total | 29 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | 4 | 0 | – | 33 | 2 | ||||
Paris Saint-Germain | 2012–13 | Ligue 1 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | 2[c] | 0 | – | 14 | 0 | ||
Career total | 523 | 97 | 35 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 118 | 18 | 31 | 3 | 719 | 129 |
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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England | 1996 | 3 | 0 |
1997 | 9 | 0 | |
1998 | 8 | 1 | |
1999 | 7 | 0 | |
2000 | 10 | 0 | |
2001 | 10 | 5 | |
2002 | 9 | 3 | |
2003 | 9 | 4 | |
2004 | 12 | 2 | |
2005 | 9 | 1 | |
2006 | 8 | 1 | |
2007 | 5 | 0 | |
2008 | 8 | 0 | |
2009 | 8 | 0 | |
Total | 115 | 17 |
No. | Date | Venue | Cap | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | 26 June 1998 | Stade Bollaert-Delelis, Lens, France | 17 | ![]() |
2–0 | 2–0 | 1998 FIFA World Cup |
2 | 24 March 2001 | Anfield, Liverpool, England | 39 | ![]() |
2–1 | 2–1 | 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification |
3 | 25 May 2001 | Pride Park, Derby England | 41 | ![]() |
3–0 | 4–0 | Friendly |
4 | 6 June 2001 | Olympic Stadium, Athens, Greece | 42 | ![]() |
2–0 | 2–0 | 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification |
5 | 6 October 2001 | Old Trafford, Manchester, England | 46 | ![]() |
2–2 | 2–2 | 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification |
6 | 10 November 2001 | Old Trafford, Manchester, England | 47 | ![]() |
1–0 | 1–1 | Friendly |
7 | 7 June 2002 | Sapporo Dome, Sapporo, Japan | 51 | ![]() |
1–0 | 1–0 | 2002 FIFA World Cup |
8 | 12 October 2002 | Tehelné pole, Bratislava, Slovakia | 55 | ![]() |
1–1 | 2–1 | UEFA Euro 2004 qualification |
9 | 16 October 2002 | St Mary's Stadium, Southampton, England | 56 | ![]() |
1–1 | 2–2 | UEFA Euro 2004 qualification |
10 | 29 March 2003 | Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz, Liechtenstein | 58 | ![]() |
2–0 | 2–0 | UEFA Euro 2004 qualification |
11 | 2 April 2003 | Stadium of Light, Sunderland, England | 59 | ![]() |
2–0 | 2–0 | UEFA Euro 2004 qualification |
12 | 20 August 2003 | Portman Road, Ipswich, England | 61 | ![]() |
1–0 | 3–1 | Friendly |
13 | 6 September 2003 | Skopje City Stadium, Skopje, Macedonia | 62 | ![]() |
2–1 | 2–1 | UEFA Euro 2004 qualification |
14 | 18 August 2004 | St James' Park, Newcastle, England | 73 | ![]() |
1–0 | 3–0 | Friendly |
15 | 9 October 2004 | Old Trafford, Manchester, England | 76 | ![]() |
2–0 | 2–0 | 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification |
16 | 30 March 2005 | St James' Park, Newcastle, England | 80 | ![]() |
2–0 | 2–0 | 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification |
17 | 25 June 2006 | Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion, Stuttgart, Germany | 93 | ![]() |
1–0 | 1–0 | 2006 FIFA World Cup |
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