David Beckham

Last updated 21 Dec 2002

Current Club: Manchester United
              ( English Premier League )

Birth date: May 2 1975
Birth place: Leytonstone, London
Birth Nation: England
Height: 180cm
Weight: 74Kg
Nationality: British
Position: Midfielder

Full name: David Robert Joseph Beckham

 As a lad, David Beckham's parents were Manchester United supporters and they bought him Man United kits. However his grandparents were Tottenham Hotspur fans and used to get him Spurs kits. 

       David started playing football for his local side, Ridgeway Rovers and first kicked a ball at Old Trafford at eleven years old when he won the ' TSB Bobby Charlton Soccer Skills' Finals. 

      Manchester United scout, Malcolm Fidgeon was watching David playing for Ridgeway and decided to talk to David's parents about David playing for United. But his parents decided their son should finish school at Chingford before joining Manchester United.

      From then on David went to every game Manchester United played in London. In 1987 he was the United mascot for the match at West Ham. 

      After finishing his schooling, David started playing for the West Ham United youth team but Manchester United decided to steal David from the Hammers (allegedly) and have David in their youth team instead but David was happy about this because after all, he was a United supporter. But West Ham don't say much about it because West Ham stole Jermain Defoe from Charlton Athletic (allegedly). So then David moved to live with foster parents in Manchester

      In the United Youth team and they won the 1992 FA Youth Cup. A few months later he made his first team debut at Brighton in a Coca Cola Cup match. A few months later he became professional with United.

      In 1994, after scoring against Galatasaray in the Champions League in, Alec Ferguson loaned him to Preston North End to gain some first team experience. A month later he returned to Old Trafford and made his Premiership debut against Leeds

       And the rest is history