I met him once in a hotel lobby, he had his daughter with him, she was still a baby, he was such a nice man, spoke to me for a few minutes. He also queued for hours to see the Queen’s lying in state just like any member of the public. My nieces also met him and he was so nice to them.
My 12 year old German nephew just visited a 3 week long Brazilian football camp. He got it as a reward for not having missed a single match (Saturday mornings) this last year. You'd be amazed in what ways you can manipulate a ball / shot 😮😂 Fortunately he additionally has a proud auntie (me) who is living near Barcelona, so in his fall vacations he will be visiting me and we will watch a FC Barcelona match or at least a free training ⚽ As for David's fame....it didn't do any harm that he's got a handsome face and an athlete's body and he married (and is still married to) a Spice girl.... and when I met him in 2008 he was quite charming 😅
He has OCD. Which back then he channelled into perfecting the free kick. And he did. He was a specialist. He admitted he would just practice them over and over again for hours. Which is why you get what you’re seeing. He was a master at that perfect curve into the net. Truly talented.
The original video is from the Premier League channel, so all of these goals were scored in the Premier league. This misses many good goals scored in Spain, the USA or for the England National team. Arguably his best goal in terms of being meaningful was a free kick for England that meant we secured qualification to go to the 2002 World Cup.
When it got to number 9 I was thinking, where's the Wimbledon clip? Then when I saw the Wimbledon goal was number 10, I thought, where's the Greece clip?
A lad from Essex who loved football. I bet he practised for years trying to score goals from anywhere on the pitch, just like a snooker player would practise shots from anywhere on the table. The power and accuracy of his kick is pure skill.
in Football, there is an expression "Top Bins" which stems from, in training, you'd hang some containers (trash cans, smaller nets, hoops) from the corners of the Cross Bar and just aim at them all day, Keeper isn't ever saving top bins no matter their skill level.
manchester united in the 90s was lightning in a bottle. beckham on the right, giggs on the left, scholes and keane in the middle, nevilles at the back, york and cole up front. the combination was much greater than the sum of the parts. and solskjaer, the super sub! and schmiechel in goal! it was like a 12th player on the pitch
Most of these are UK premier league matches, To put things in perspective, The superbowl is watched by around 123m in USA and 65m elsewhere so 190m or so. An average Premier League game = 450m worldwide, bigger games, much more.
David Robert Joseph Beckham OBE born 2 May 1975 is an English former professional footballer, the president and co-owner of Inter Miami CF and co-owner of Salford City. Primarily a right winger and known for his range of passing, crossing ability and free-kick taking, Beckham has been hailed as one of the greatest and most recognisable midfielders of his generation, as well as one of the best free-kick takers of all time. He won 19 major trophies in his career, and is the first English player to win league titles in four different countries: England, Spain, the United States and France.
Beckham was a free-kick specialist. He actually played mid-field rather than striker, as a mid fielder he would pick out good tactical passes and get the ball upfield. He could land a ball at your feet from half a pitch away his accuracy was so good. He had great vision too, he created so many goal scoring opportunities for team mates by seeing an opening in the defence they can charge in to and placing the ball right where it needs to be for them to receive during the sprint.
@@jol0973gary neville utds and England's rb for over a decade won everything at club level paul Scholes pure class becks then ryan giggs over 20 years atvthe top most decorated players in English football history plus Phil neville nicky butt Gillespie left and had a good career Robbie savage left and had a good career all from the same youth team
YES, it's the way the player kicks to place spin on the ball - like a pitcher in Baseball... SO the saying "Bend it like Beckham" was born. There is a movie of the same name about wanting to wanting to be as good as him
his free kick for England in the final minute of the game that aent England to the tournament that we were gonna miss right up until he scored that goal. what a time to do your biz.
As far as memory serves Beckham was the first proffesional to do the "over-halfway" goal in that way. Beckham was an ace player but was, in my opinion, known for sheer accuracy even at speed ie running. His ability to judge where the receivers foot will be when the ball arrived was unreal. I think one of the main reasons it isn't popular over there is the way the matches are structured. It seems on american tv that you have advertisements every 5 minutes or so. 2 halves of 45 minutes each and the whatever extra time needed. Nowhere in there really for the companies to make money.
Definitely became famous for his good looks but he was also an incredible footballer, he was the one I looked up too, when I was a young lad, didn’t bother with Ronaldo, messi and the likes of them, this guy was a legend
Some terms for you. 1. The upright of a goal is called the post. 2. The top of the goal is called the bar. 3. Someone who is good at free kicks is called a dead-ball specialist. 4. You pronounce Tottenham - Tot-num. 5. The lion in the corner means you are watching Premier League games. You should check out Beckham's international and Champions League highlights.
Beckham had a lot of prime years lol, and he's probably one of the most underrated midfielders in the sport because people only like to look at his goals, he had a proper engine on him and he was tactically disciplined
If you want to see true magnificence from Bex, try and find the England -v- Greece game from the European championships, can’t remember the year but someone reading this will know, he literally played that entire game on his own. Also you’ll note the different hairstyles, he was famous for changing hairstyles for particular campaigns. He can shoot like that because every training day, he would practice shooting for hours on end whilst all the others had showered and gone home! From allover the field, different distances from the goal mouth, he’d use props in the pitch to cause obstructions so that he’d have to angle his kicks to get round the obstructions. There hasn’t been another since like him although some of the young players in the current England squad are pretty good in different ways. The Bend it like Beckham reference you’re half recognising is a film that was based on him.
These are all goals scored in the English Premier League for Manchester United. Many of his is best performances were for the England national team, and for Real Madrid in Spain.
6:41 I do get what you're saying, but remember this is a video of his top 10 most amazing goals... I'm sure there are other videos out there about his ball handling skills etc, but this one is just amazing goals in and of themselves, not worrying about who's winning ir losing, about whether its a final or world cup game, or just a normal Premier League game... It's not about the circumstances, it's just about the skills.
Nobody can deliver a cross into the box like this guy. I cant think of anyone in history that does it like he did. Id say unique amongst unique men. Plus all his iconic goals.
These are all Premier league games. Beckham was probably one of the best, if not, the best at taking free kicks after the referee whistled down the play for a foul against Beckham's team. Italy's Andrea Pirlo some years later was also a master at taking free kicks. you should check him out.
Because of his "celebrity status" a lot of football fans didn't appreciate how good he was. There were times when he would carry the entire England team.
Straight facts. He was one of the best ever and people also don’t appreciate how much he dedicated himself to his sport. It’s because he also became THE prototype for ‘celebrity footballer’ and Victoria for the ‘WAG’ I wish more people appreciated how good he was. I’d take Beckham in his prime over ANYONE to take a corner or free kick
David married Victoria Adams, aka Posh Spice of the girl group "Spice Girls". In the mid 90s through the millennium, they were massive in UK and even beyond. They became like superstar A-listers. Massive.
Not to send you down the football rabbit hole but I think you would really like to see the 10 best goals by Ryan Giggs. Giggs was a lifelong Manchester United player alongside David Beckham when Manchester United dominated the Premier League in the 90s. Ryan Giggs had as extraordinary dribbling skills as Beckham had in his free kicks. I think you would be amazed by what he was able to do.
The saying ‘bend it like Beckham’ is actually the name of a film about girl’s football in Britain and does refer to his ability to bend his kicks. There is a very good documentary film about David Beckham life which is very interesting.
David Beckham end up playing for LA Galaxy and is married to "Posh Spice" so that's most probably why you have heard of him. He now is one of the co-owners of Inter Miami Soccer team. The other thing to bear in mind is that because he dated and then married a member of Spice Girls while they were at height of their fame he has been in limelight for he life on and off the pitch, which he has used to effectively create the brand "Beckham". Also, it might be just my perception but he was the first personality I can remember that started getting huge tattoos after which that trend took off as something that became fashionable to do.
Best right foot in the history of the sport, and high tactical mind and workrate on both ends of the pitch. The kind of player you build a championship team around
It takes strength i trained with 67 kilo's on my back up and down mountains 200 mile rides on my bianchi race bike 47 mile runs at top speed swimming olympic pool 1 breath doe 3.5 lengths on the bottom. Then on the running track doing hurdles spaced for the 100 metres our were all around the track so 7.5 laps of them at top speed just ahaving with my trailing leg. Then football a left winger with many aspects of Beckhams team members to my game i was a left winger midfielder striker and left back i drove the ball from our goal area straight through the ball one almighty effort with delayed top spin that made the ball dip behind their goalkeeper. All players on both reams atopped playing and all on both teams came to congratulate me the best goal i ever scored and i could bend it more than Beckham. Scored from the corner bent it into the far post nehind the keeper fegular crossfieild bent nalls to the right flank to run down the touch line once i had played ailly bugger to draw the defenders to me. We scored an awful lot of goals like rhat. My Father was a professional footballer who played for Wolverhampton Wanderes on the 60's ao i tbought i might be good so i pushed it to see and it was amazing o was siperfit and super atrong. & the World had coniptions over becks yes he was good buit i was better. My Father was an ego monster so i stayed away from the professional game. Until i played for St Anns Chapel in Cornwall so you can see my ability in The Western Morning News and Launceston Post arxhives.
David does have a good sense of humour too, he was interviewed with his Spice Girl wife by Sacha Baron Cohen as his Ali G character. They'd had their first child, and Ali asked them, "When he grows up, would you like him to be a footballer like his dad, or a singer like Mariah Carey?" they took all his roasting in great spirit.
Last goal, goal keeper (not tender) was off his line, he had moved forward anticipating a pass to the forwards so he wanted to close the gap to add pressure to them. When beckham looked for the pass, he saw this and decided to lob the keeper leaving them no option but to scramble back in a panic.
A lot of folk forget how great a player he was, his only weakness was tracking back to defend which he worked on and got much better at. he sadly is known just as a celeibrity, but his right foot was a wand, and he could handle the pressure of playing in huge games for man united and england. a true great player.
for other great free kicks check out Ronaldo of Portugal, who also played for Manchester United. Power, placement and control of the ball are all phenomenal. he was also very fast and a good header of the ball too
I was at that game for goal #8 (I'm an Everton supporter). We (Everton) were 3-0 down at half time, and we got it back to 3-3 in the second half. Then we gave away a free kick, Beckham stepped up, and you can see what happened. 😭 Also, you were right to see how pumped up he was to score against Liverpool. Manchester United and Liverpool hate each other.
Nah it wasn’t that game, this was the one super kev scored early doors and went off injured, big dunc came on for him. Beckham scored this then van nistlerooy scored the winner, cost us a uefa cup spot.
Is very funny when Americans say that football is a slow sport, while having baseball and your football with pauses every 2 seconds. A football field is always moving, you can se how they cover space, go for the ball, constantly passing trying to get some openings, is an extremely active sport
beckham was more than just a freekick/crosser guy...people who didn't watch him at the time say he wasn't that good but as someone who was a man united fan during that time (obviously still is) he was the full package...people seem to downplay his ability due to how big he got as a 'celebrity'...real madrid don't come knocking for an average player.
one of the best passers of all time, the best crosser of all time and arguably the best vision of all time along with his relentless work ethic and engine. Very underrated player.
That midfield - Keane, Scholes, Giggs and Beckham - was perfectly balanced with four extremely gifted players combining their varied skills and personalities to maximum effect. The passing and wit of Scholes, pace and trickery of Giggs, crossing and dead ball majesty of Beckham and motivation, energy and positional nous of Keane... Scholes and Giggs were also capable of contributing spectacular goals, while Keane covered every inch of the space behind them to enable them to express themselves. A legendary era in United's history.
I would argue that he is massively overrated. He was slow, weak in a tackle and was found in no man's land a lot leaving Gary Neville on his own to deal with his man and the overlapping fullback. He was one of the best free kick takers, passers and crossers to grace the game. But a one trick pony with a good trick can make a career out of it, and he nailed it
14:14 - FREE KICKS NOT PENALTY KICKS - A Penalty kick is taken from a specific spot directly in front of the goal, and is awarded if a foul takes place anywhere inside the penalty area (the larger of the two goalkeeper's boxes). A free kick is taken from the exact spot a foul occurs on the pitch, outside of the penalty box.
As a country we should be ashamed of the way we treated him over the World Cup knock out. He was an amazing player and he and his family all come across as genuinely lovely people
Best Beckham stat I’ve seen is his crazy work rate, last season the player who ran the furthest as an average per game was Newcastle’s Bruno Guimaraes who covered 11.7km. Beckhams average at his peak 2001/2002 was 14.1km that’s insane.
Re “ slower paced sport”. ie football . I’m Scottish and was lucky enough to see a Yankees game a few years back. I enjoyed it very much,amazing stadium ( new ) and great atmosphere,but my god ! so many starts and stops..Obviously it’s all about advertising so the games are crammed with ( if your watching on tv ) garbage brain frying ads. Football in the UK has one break after 45 minutes for 15 minutes ( and that time will not be solid advertising )and if you’re watching on the BBC it will be ad free because the BBC is a non commercial station.
In off the Pole 🤣30 yard penalty kicks🤣 my morning was made a little better by watching this reaction love it , check out Beckham vs Greece 2001 WORLD CUP QUALIFIER never have i seen a better single performance where one player drags his team through like Beckham did in that game.
When you see a British city like Tottenham, or Cheltenham... we don't pronounce it like "en-ham" in the UK. We pronounce it more like "num". So it would be "Tot-num" or "Chelt-num". I love how you US folks pronounce things though because it's literally say what you see. In the UK we don't do that... mostly at all. We have way too many letters which make no sense. Any place which has "-cester" in the name, like Leicester... we literally remove the "-ce" aspect. To make it "Lester." Because as Shakespeare has shown... we literally use far more letters than are actually needed for words lol.
The longest goal that I am aware of was Tim Howard (US National Team GK) scoring from his own area, clearing nearly the entire pitch, and putting it in the other goal. Everton vs Bolton - January 2012.
For about 5 years, he probably had the best right foot in World football. The rest of him was pretty decent too, but as a Liverpool fan, I'm obligated to dislike him (though not as a person), as he played for United.
Now check out Alan Shearer, Sergio Aguero, Thierry Henry, and for recency Erling Haaland. These are some of the most clinical strikers in the English premier leagues history. John Terry, Tony Adams, Rio Ferdinand, and for recency Virgil Van Dyke and William Saliba are brilliant bone crunching defenders. Different types of players. Classy midfielders like Beckham, see his team mate (better than him) Paul Scholes, Patrick Viera, David Silva, Steven Gerrard and for recency Kevin De bruyne and Martin Odegaard. You can learn ALOT more about the Premier League by checking these guys out. Thierry Henry is widely considered as the best player to have played in England of all time, while Alan Shearer holds the all time goals scored record in the league. Outside England you have Jude Bellingham playing in Spain for Real Madrid, Killian M'bappe who has just moved to Real Madrid from Paris St Germain, Lamine Yamal who is 16 years old and is pretty much the main man for the Spanish national side playing for Barcelona, Jamal Musiala is brilliant for Bayern Munich, Victor Osimhen is clinical for Napoli. The top 5 leagues are all definitely worth a watch. Thats the English Premier League, The German Bundesliga, the Spanish La Liga, the Italian Serie A and the French Ligue 1. Oh and the passion??? It's pretty much universal iin the world of real football. Watch any pro score pretty much any goal and you'll see that
Your east and west coast soccer leagues seem very popular when I watch the highlights on RU-vid. Always a big crowd in attendance when I watch Inter Miami, and Austin games.
Beckham played his first professional game at aged 17 years He signed with Manchester United when he was 14 on a youth training scheme He made appearances for united 394 times scored 85 goals
He was born in 1975 so his early 20s was mainly spent at Manchester United and you likely heard about him when he was in LA Galaxy between age 32 and 37 when he retired.
Tyler. They are posts and the top is the crossbar. Posts are sometimes called uprights. He was taking free kicks. Penalties are taken from a spot in the 16 yard box. He was the best free kick taker. Yes the goalkeeper hated him taking free kicks. Manchester United verses Liverpool. They hate each other. Two big egos. He owns Miami football club.
David Beckham's second son, Romeo, is also a professional footballer. Brooklyn, the eldest, started playing too, but opted to become a professional model and photographer. I imagine it's difficult trying to walk in such a great football star father's footsteps. The third son, Cruz, is keen on music.
He's 22 in the first clip, and already on the England team. That's not especially young - two of our current team are 21. Footballers don't tend to last to 35; he left the England team at 34.
Allow me to answer your question. Why is football not popular in the US: 1- football cannot be monetized. Aside from half-time there are no breaks. 2- Americans like to be the best at everything, so when you find something in which you cannot excel, you label it as insignificant or dull or the more common "not manly" instead of improving. You create a sport that only you play and call yourselves World Champions. 3- low scoring is also a big no no for americans. You prefer big numbers at the end of a stupid game than a 1-0 at the end of a tense quality game (1 touchdown is worth 7 points..... why???) 4- you find football to be slow paced but the truth is, both teams are always 30 seconds away from scoring at all times, which is the reason why you might see teams passing 50 times before a goal. They create openings and opportunities. Apologies for using harsh terminology but this is the truth.
beckham used to practise at man utd training ground after the rest of the team had left i heard. he also married a spice girl and i think they made it in america too.
I'm not a Man U fan, or a particular Beckham fan, and I wouldn't say he had the all round skills of some of the greats. But I don't think I've seen anyone else who could strike a ball as consistently well as him. And another thing which doesn't get mentioned enough was his work rate. There was one England match (I can't remember which one now) where he single handedly dragged us back into it when we looked down and out. He almost ran himself into the ground. That changed my opinion of him forever.
Americans tend to prefer higher scoring games, with something to 'Whoop!' about many times. They also like results. Must be a winner, if it takes overtime, so be it. Football (as in British football, not American Handegg) often has tie-game draws. In fact, pre 1990s, when pretty much all games would be on a saturday afternoon a very popular gambling method was 'The Pools' where punters would select on a form 8 games they thought might be tie-game draws, and if they chose correctly, and there were only 8 draws that day, and not many others had them too, they could win big! TV companies dictating that the league have games on other days so they can show more slashed the point and popularity of the pools.
David Beckham started and owns his own Football Club in the USA. It was founded January 29th 2018. The team is called Inter Miami CF. The Stadium is called, the Chase Stadium Fort, Lauderdale Florida. It has a seating capacity for 21,550 fans. Plus he has a small stake in a Football club in Manchester, England called, Salford City FC.
From the age of 7, he used to spend hours trying to hit a post from all areas of a pitch. You have heard of 'Bend it like Beckham' because it is a very good film about an English women's football team and the drama therein. Spoiler Beckham makes a brief appearance.
