David Beckham

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

David Beckham is Kirsty Young's guest as Desert Island Discs celebrates its 75th Anniversary. As a professional footballer he's the only Englishman to win the league titles in England, Spain, the US and France. He spent the bulk of his career as a midfielder for Manchester United, winning the Treble - Premiership, FA Cup and Champions League - in 1999, before moving to Real Madrid in 2003. He headed to the US to play for LA Galaxy in 2007, and ended his career at Paris Saint-Germain in 2013, retiring in May that year. Born and raised in East London, the middle child of Ted and Sandra, David Beckham discovered football early and spent hours kicking a ball around at the local park with his father. At the age of seven, he played for his first team, Ridgeway Rovers, before coming to the attention of Manchester United while attending the Bobby Charlton Soccer School. He became a trainee with Manchester United in 1991, and progressed to make 265 first team appearances, winning the Premier League six times, the FA Cup twice and the UEFA Champions League once. He played for England from 1996 to 2009 and captained the side for six years. He has been married to Victoria Adams - known as Posh from the Spice Girls - since 1999 and they have four children. Since retiring from professional football in 2013, David has spent more time on his work with UNICEF which he has supported since 2005. Producer: Cathy Drysdale.

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0:00.0	This is the BBC.
0:03.0	Hello, I'm Kirstie Young.
0:05.0	Thank you for downloading this podcast of Desert Island Discs from BBC Radio 4.
0:09.0	This is an extended edition of the original broadcast.
0:13.0	For rights reasons, the music choices are shorter than in the Radio broadcast.
0:17.0	For more information about the program, please visit bbc.co.uk-radio4.
0:30.0	Music
0:44.0	My cast away for this special 75th birthday edition of Desert Island Discs is David Beckham,
0:50.0	footballer, global brand humanitarian.
0:53.0	For the past 25 years, we have watched him score goals, set trends,
0:57.0	and more recently, speak out.
0:59.0	His stats as a player are of course impressive.
1:02.0	115 caps for his country, 59 of them a skipper,
1:07.0	and the only footballer to win league titles in his homeland, Spain, the US and France.
1:13.0	But in truth, he's much more than just a world-class athlete.
1:17.0	He has transcended sports and become a global superstar,
1:21.0	recognized almost as much for what he's done off the pitch as on it.
1:25.0	And it seems these days he's at home at the United Nations making a speech on child welfare
1:31.0	as gracing billboards in those designer pants.
1:34.0	He says, if you want to make the best of yourself,
1:37.0	if you want to reach your potential, you give it everything.
1:41.0	You never stop striving.
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