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. 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. 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 inherited his parents’ love of Manchester United, and his main sporting passion was football. 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.
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]