David Beckham of Manchester United and England is a very high profile soccer player who is rarely out of the limelight. Although born in London he has spent his entire career at the famous club from Manchester-Man United are the richest soccer club in the world.
Beckham was a good player as a youth and was signed by Manchester United and brought up through their youth team which has produced such good players as Ryan Giggs, Nicky Butt, Paul Scholes and the Neville brothers.According to the youth team coach as youngsters Paul Scholes rather overshone David but he observes that Beckham was incredibly hard working.He is thus not surprised that he has got where he is today.
Basically David Beckham is a rather shy personality and being married to a Spice Girl, Victoria Adams, pushes him further into the limelight. The media in UK hound him practically night and day.
How good is he as a soccer player ? In my view he is very good but not quite a complete player.He does not have the dribbling skills of , say, Zidane, Figo or young Stephen Gerrard of Liverpool. He has great positional sense and is a marvellous dead ball player.Undoubtedly he gets high marks for his work rate and there is no serious doubt about his commitment to club and country. However, whilst he is on the fringes of world class I do not think I would yet rate him as a world class player. Indeed, I have a feeling that Gerrard will emerge as a genuine world class player ahead of David Beckham.