On 20 November 2011, he joined an elite group of players to have won three league titles in three different countries, when Los Angeles won their third MLS Cup. 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 plans. Beckham was the first British footballer to play 100 Champions League matches. 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, He regularly played football in Ridgeway Park, Chingford, as a child, and attended Chase Lane Primary School and Chingford Foundation School. He attended one of Bobby Charlton’s football schools in Manchester and won the chance to take part in a training session at FC Barcelona, as part of a talent competition. He played for a local youth team called the Ridgeway Rovers - coached by his father, Stuart Underwood and Steve Kirby. Beckham was a Manchester United mascot for a match against West Ham United in 1986.

David Beckham Loves The Wanted Too!! Who knew!! We have more in common with David Beckham than we thought, LOL!! We had SUCH a good time with British/Irish boy band The Wanted last night and so did Becks!! So much UK hotness in one photo!! Can U handle it?? [link]

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David Beckham Greets The Royals! Just a day before his wife gave birth, David Beckham welcomed the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to El Lay.The couple were joined by 200 guests for drinks and canapes at the home of Consul General and David made sure to be the one to greet the royal couple as they kicked off their visit [...] [link]

+ Appearances (Goals). 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. in international football, Beckham made his England debut on 1 September 1996, at the age of 21. He was made captain from 15 November 2000 until the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals, during which he played 58 times. During a two-year period in which Beckham played for Brimsdown Rovers’ youth team, he was named Under-15 Player of the Year in 1990. He also attended Bradenton Preparatory Academy, but signed schoolboy forms at Manchester United on his fourteenth birthday, and subsequently signed a Youth Training Scheme contract on 8 July 1991. Beckham returned to Manchester and finally made his Premier League debut for Manchester United on 2 April 1995, in a goal-less draw against Leeds United. The criticism increased when United started the season with a 3-1 defeat at Aston Villa, with Beckham scoring United’s only goal of the game; however, United won their next five matches and the young players performed well.

Victoria Beckham’s left holding the baby as David Beckham heads back to work DAVID Beckham headed back to work just days after Victoria Beckham gave birth to his daughter. [link]

Beckham’s career began when he signed a professional contract with Manchester United, making his first-team debut in 1992 aged 17. While a Galaxy player, he spent two loan spells in Italy with Milan in 2009 and 2010. Beckham was part of a group of young talents Ferguson brought in to United in the 1990s (known as “Fergie’s Fledglings”), which included Nicky Butt and Gary and Phil Neville. Despite playing regularly (and to a consistently high standard) for Manchester United, Beckham did not break into the England squad before Euro 96. On 17 August 1996 (the first day of the Premier League season), Beckham became something of a household name when he scored a spectacular goal in a match against Wimbledon. in a UK poll conducted by Channel 4 in 2002, the British public voted the goal No.18 in the list of the 100 Greatest Sporting Moments. During the 1996-97 season, he became an automatic first-choice player at United helping them to retain the Premier League championship, and being voted PFA Young Player of the Year by his peers. in the 1998-99 season, he was part of the United team that won The Treble of the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League, a unique feat in English football.

‘Overprotective’ David Beckham David Beckham will be an ”overprotective” father to he and wife Victoria’s baby daughter, who is due to be born any day now. David Beckham will be a… [link]

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. He was Google’s most searched of all sports topics in both 2003 and 2004. Beckham was born at Whipps Cross University Hospital in Leytonstone, London, England. in 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 Jewish” and wrote in his autobiography “I’ve probably had more contact with Judaism than with any other religion”.

David Beckham warns: Victoria Beckham is about to pop! DAVID Beckham has warned the world that Victoria Beckham is scarily close to giving birth. [link]