+ Appearances (Goals). He left Manchester United to sign for Real Madrid in 2003, where he remained for four seasons, clinching the La Liga championship in his final season with the club. On 20 November 2011, he joined an elite group of players to have won three league titles in three different countries, when Los Angeles won their third MLS Cup. 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”. He played for a local youth team called the Ridgeway Rovers - coached by his father, Stuart Underwood and Steve Kirby. He then went to Preston North End on loan for part of the 1994-95 season to get some first team experience.
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]