David Robert Joseph Beckham is an English retired professional footballer and a current president of inter Miami CF. He hails from Leytonstone, London, united kingdom and was born on 2^nd may 1975. He is 6ft0 tall.

He  played for Manchester united(1992-2003{203 appearances and 62 goals}), Preston North End(1994-1995{loan. 5 appearances and 2 goals}), Real Madrid(2003-2007{116 appearances and 13 goals}), Milan(2009-2010{loan. 18 appearances and 2 goals), LA Galaxy(2007-2012{98 appearances and 18 goals}), Paris Saint-Germain(2013{10 appearances and 0 goals}) and the English national team. He is the first English player to win the league titles in four countries; England, Spain, the United States& France. He also holds the record of an ‘outfield’ player until 2016. He retired in May 2013 after a 20 year career, during which he won 19 major trophies.

He is married to top designer, Victoria Beckham and has four children. In his football career years, he was a midfielder. David, after his years as a footballer, he is now a businessman, model and a spokesperson. He is linked with organizations as UNICEF and malaria no more. In 2017, he was said to own a net worth of 450 million dollars.

Beckham’s professional club career began with Manchester United where he made his first team debut in 1992 at age 17. With impetuous skills and great team work, his rise to fame was with no doubt. With Manchester United, David won the premier league title six times, the FA cup twice, and the UEFA Champions League in 1999. He played four seasons with Real Madrid, winning the La Liga championship in his final season with the club. He was the first British footballer to play 100 UEFA champions league.

Recognized for his range of passing, crossing ability and bending free kicks as a right-winger, Beckham was runner up in the Ballon d’or, twice runner-up for FIFA world player of the year and in 2004 was named by Pele in the FIFA 100 list 0f the world’s greatest living players. He was inducted into the English football hall of fame in 2008; a global ambassador for the sports, he is regarded as a British cultural icon.

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Did you know?

• David Beckham married Victoria Beckham in 1999 at age 24.
• He has also been a UNICEF UK ambassador since 2005 and in 2015. Launched 7: The David Beckham UNICEF Fund.
• In 2014, MLS announced that Beckham and a group of investors would own an Inter Miami CF, which will begin in 2020.
• David Beckham has consistently ranked among the highest earners in football, and in 2013 was listed as the highest-paid player in the world having earned over 50 million dollars in the previous 12 months.
• Did you know that in 2005, Beckham founded the David Beckham Academy football school, operating from two sites; London and Los Angeles. Although, it was announced in late 2009 that both would close, a mobile academy is being developed by Beckham to travel around the UK and further afield.
• The Beckham were paid 13.7 million dollars in 2007 to launch his fragrance line in the United States.
• In the years 2003 and 2004, David Beckham according to Google was searched for more than any other sports topic on their sites.
• Having worn Adidas football boots from the start of his career, in 2003, he signed a 160 million lifetime contract with Adidas, earning nearly half the money upfront and will continue to earn percentages of the profits on all of his branded Adidas products.
• David Beckham has several eponymous video games like GO! GO! Beckham, adventure on Soccer Island and was brand ambassador for exercise video games, EA sports Active 2; featured in EA sport’s FIFA video game series and was on the cover of the international edition of FIFA ’98.
• He had a 10 year collaboration with Pepsi co. that expired in 2009.
• Beckham generated an estimated 1 billion pounds in shirt and boot sales and in 2006; Lloyd’s of London insured his legs for 100 million pounds as at the time he was playing for Real Madrid.
• In May 2010, Beckham visited Afghanistan for a morale- boosting visit to the British troops fighting the Taliban insurgency.