David Beckham – The story of an idol
DavidThere are plenty of footballers all over the world with money, success, fame and power. So, why should I consider David Beckham an idol? What does he have different from the others? Does he deserve all this fame and money that he has got?
The answer to all of these questions is that David Beckham is the only one who has a mix of beauty, pleasantness and talent that makes people admire him.
David playingBecks, how he is called in Britain, was born on 2nd May 1975, in Leytonstone, a city near to London. Since he was a child, he has always loved playing football and dreamt to join a big team and become a professional. His parents didn’t have lots of money, as his father was a gas fitter’s mate and his mother a hairdresser. But they supported David in his dream and soon he started to show them they did the right thing.
David was the highlight of the little teams that he played for when he was a child, scoring dozens of goals, and everyone could see that he had a promising future.
When he was only fourteen, he finally saw his biggest dream becoming true: he joined the Manchester United, the football club he had always supported. A new phase was starting in David’s life and in some years he became very famous in England and in the sports world because of his sensational performance in the matches. But this was not enough to him. He still had the rest of the world to win.
In the next years, David became a very handsome man, won championships, received prizes and started playing in the English Team. In spite of all these professional achievements, David only became world known when he started dating Victoria Adams, member of the pop group Spice Girls. She was one of the most famous women in that moment and David, who saw her for the first time in a video on TV, fell in love as soon as they first met. Immediately, they became the media’s sensation couple and this fact only helped in David’s career.
They got married in July 1999, in a castle. By that time, not only UK talked about them, but all the rest of the world! In the same year, they had a baby, named Brooklyn, and, in 2002, the family grew again, with Romeo’s birth. David was England’s football captain and Victoria was singing in a solo-career. Everything seemed to be perfect in Beckham’s life, but in the following year a big change in his life was going to happen.
All the family together at the World CupHe was not happy anymore with his manager in the Manchester United. Some people say that Ferguson, the manager, used to be very demanding with David, but others say that the player had become snobbish and wanted different treatment from the others. Nobody knows exactly what happened, but in 2003 he accepted to join Real Madrid’s Team. That meant that he would have to move to a completely different country: Spain.
In the first months, David’s life turned upside down. He and his family had to live in a hotel, he had to get used to Real Madrid and to the habits of that country. And, to make all that worse, the press accused him to be betraying Victoria with his assistant. This fact was never proved, but David became really upset and his football performance was damaged because of all those gossips about it.
After that, Beckham bought a house and moved definitively to Spain. One year later, he was a father again. Cruz was born in February 2005 and his name was inspired in a name of a David’s fan. Beckham, who is known to be a wonderful daddy, doesn’t deny that he still wants to have a daughter, as he has three boys. Recently, Victoria was announced to be pregnant again, but this was only gossip.
Beckham, very successful in personal and professional life, is one of the most wanted people to make advertisements. In fact, he is the footballer who earns the biggest amount of money from this activity. The reason for that? We already know. David gives us the image of perfection, which can sell any kind of product.You can ask yourself if David’s life is not too perfect to be true. And I say to you: perfect or not, Beckham’s life is quite interesting, isn’t it?
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Carolina Dal PozAdvanced 1Teacher PaulaCentro BritânicoPerdizes Branch
