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      • Beckham grew up along with his two sisters. David Beckham studied at Chase Lane Primary School as a child and then went on to study at the Chingford County High School. However, throughout his childhood Beckham was more interested in football and used to play for a local team known as Ridgeway Rovers.
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  2. In his book Both Feet on the Ground, Beckham states that growing up he attended church every week with his parents, because that was the only way he could play football for their team.

  3. David Robert Joseph Beckham was born 2 May, 1975, in the Leytonstone area of London, England, to David Edward Alan Beckham and Sandra Georgina. His father worked as an appliance repairman, while his mother was a hairdresser. Beckham grew up along with his two sisters.

  4. Jun 17, 2024 · David Beckham, English football (soccer) player who gained international fame for his on-field play as well as for his highly publicized personal life. With Manchester United, he developed into one of the sport’s elite competitors, perhaps best known for his free kicks and crosses.

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  5. Oct 12, 2023 · A middle child between two sisters, David grew up with a family of committed fans to Manchester United, England’s legendary soccer franchise.

    • Early Life
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    • Paris St Germain
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    Beckham was born on May 2, 1975 in London.
    He joined Manchester United as a 16-year-old trainee in 1991.
    By 1995 he became a regular during the club's most successful era. United won the Premier League and FA Cup double during his first full season.
    During the 1996/97 campaign he scored from the halfway line in an opening day victory over Wimbledon.
    Beckham made his England debut on September 1, 1996 in a World Cup qualifier against Moldova.
    Two years later he scored in the finals against Colombia but went home from France in disgrace after being sent off for kicking out at Argentina midfielder Diego Simeone in a last-16 defeat.
    In England, Beckham was widely blamed for the defeat, and pilloried in the tabloids.
    Beckham captained England on the first of 58 occasions against Italy in a friendly in November 2000 and the next year booked England a place in the 2002 World Cup finals with a stunning injury-time...
    Beckham signed for Real Madrid from United for 25 million pounds ($39 million) in 2003 but the Spanish club went three seasons without a major trophy before winning the league title in 2007.
    Beckham then joined the Los Angeles Galaxy (July 2007) in a mega-money deal in a bid to promote soccer in the United States.
    Beckham won a second successive Major League Soccer (MLS) Cup at the end of 2012 and went back to Europe where he trained with Arsenal, although club manager Arsene Wenger said the Gunners were not...
    In March, China named Beckham as its first global soccer ambassador to revive the game's image there.
    Soccer in China was hit by a match-fixing scandal and an exodus of international stalwarts from the country's premier league.
    In his new role, Beckham, would be expected to help bring Chinese Super League (CSL) to the world stage and promote the game in the world's most populous country.
    After rumours in 2011 that Beckham was joining PSG, French sports daily L'Equipe ran a front page saying "Le Voilá!" (Here he comes!), - he finally joined the Parisian club in January 2013 on a fiv...
    Beckham also announced his salary at PSG will be donated to a children's charity in Paris.
    Beckham enjoyed a promising French league debut for PSG in February, receiving warm crowd support in a late cameo during the 2-0 home victory over Olympique Marseille.
    Last month he picked up a straight red card as Paris St Germain continued its march towards a first French league title.
    Beckham met Victoria Adams - better known as Posh Spice - in the mid-1990s when she was a member of pop group the Spice Girls.
    The perfect media match-up, the couple were instantly catapulted into the limelight.
    Beckham and Adams married in July 1999, a few months after their first son Brooklyn was born.
    They have three other children.
  6. David Beckham was born 2 May 1975, as the second child to Sandra Georgina and David Edward Alan Beckham, and grew up in a part of East London called Leytonstone. He played football from a very early age, impassioned by the sport, he dreamed about being a professional as an adult.

  7. Oct 4, 2023 · The documentary, titled Beckham, and jointly made by his production company Studio 99, sees Becks reflect on his rise from Waltham Forest under-12s to become a household name, with...