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David BeckhamDavid Robert Joseph Beckham OBE (born May 2, 1975) is an English football gameer born in Leytonstone, London. He is a midfielder for echt Madrid and captain of the English national team. He is noted for the quality of his crossing and ability to hit free-kicks and corners, particularly at long-range free-kicks and also for his marriage to a Spice Girl. He has contend most of his career for Manchester United. Although there are arguably many snap off current players in world football none are as famous.Manchester United 1995-2003Beckham first sign a YTS (youth training scheme) contract (this is sympathetic to an apprenticeship) with United in 1991, and made his League de precisely in 1995, gray 19. The next year he helped the side to the Premiership and FA Cup trophies and to their dominance of interior(prenominal) football. In the 1998-99 season, he was part of the United team that won the bivalent - Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League, a feat unprecede nted in English football, which earned the clubs manager, Alex Ferguson, a knighthood.In total, Beckham scored 86 goals in 397 games for Man United, a rate of roughly 2 goals every 9 games, highly praiseworthy for a midfielder.Club Career real(a) Madrid 2003-presentOn June 17, 2003, Beckham signed a four-year contract with Real Madrid of Spain, potentially worth up to 35 million (25 million, USD 41 million). Plus 2.Apart from benefiting from his football ability, this transfer gives the Spanish club an opportunity to profit from merchandising, especially in the Far East, where Beckham is enormously popular, and Manchester United have until now had the lions share of interest. It is credibly no coincidence that Beckham was transferred just before Real started a far-eastern tour, but it would be very unfair to say that his marketing potential merely was the only reason for his transfer. At the time of the announcement of his transfer to Real Madrid, Beckham and his wife (Victoria) w ere on a week-long tour of Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand promoting beauty products, chocolate, motor oil, and expeditious phones, which it was reported would earn them more than the entire first year of his Real Madrid contract. (Western journalists are excluded from the Japanese press conferences organised by his sponsors because of the plethora they would cause him in the West.)He successfully completed the transfer on July 1 and was presented with the squad number of 23 on July 2.