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David Beckham, in full David Robert Joseph Beckham, (born May 2, 1975, Leytonstone, East London, England), English football (soccer) player who gained international fame for his on-field play as well as for his highly publicized personal life.
at age 11 Beckham won a football contest, and as a teenager he competed on Manchester United’s youth squad, leading it to a national championship in 1992. Three years later he began playing with the professional team in league competition, and during the 1995–96 season he helped Manchester United win the league title and the Football Association (FA) Cup. Beckham attracted national attention in August 1996 when he scored a goal from the halfway line (a feat roughly equivalent to a golfer’s hole in one). The following year Manchester United successfully defended its league title, and Beckham was voted Young Player of the Year. In the 1998–99 season Manchester United won the league title, the FA Cup, and the European Cup. Beckham was named best midfielder and Most Valuable Player. Considered one of the sport’s elite players, he was perhaps best known for his free kicks and crosses; the 2002 film Bend It Like Beckham paid homage to his kicking ability. After helping Manchester United win three more league titles (2000, 2001, and 2003), he left the team in 2003 to join the Spanish football club Real Madrid. Four years later he signed a record-setting deal with the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer (MLS) in the United States. In October 2008 Beckham signed to play with Italian football powerhouse AC Milan during the MLS off-season. In 2011 he helped the Galaxy win an MLS Cup title. The Galaxy won a second MLS Cup title in 2012, and Beckham left the team at the end of the season. In 2013 he joined the French first-league team Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), and PSG won the French domestic title in his one season with the team. Beckham retired from football soon after winning his championship with PSG.
Usain Bolt of Jamaica reacts after breaking the world record with a time of 19.30 to win the gold medal as Churandy Martina (left) of Netherlands Antilles and Brian Dzingai of Zimbabwe come in after him in the Men's 200m Final at the National Stadium during Day 12 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 20, 2008 in Beijing, China. (Summer Olympics, track and field, athletics)
In 1996 Beckham first played on England’s national team, in a World Cup qualifying match. At the 1998 World Cup he drew much criticism after he was ejected from a game for kicking an opponent. England lost the match and was eliminated from the competition. In 2000 Beckham was made captain of the national team. At the 2002 and 2006 World Cups, England was defeated in the quarterfinals. After the 2006 tournament, Beckham stepped down as captain, and he was later dropped from England’s national team. He was recalled to the team in 2007, and the following year he posted his 100th international appearance, becoming the fifth person to do so in the history of English football. Beckham was poised to be the first Englishman to appear in four World Cups, but he tore his Achilles tendon while playing for AC Milan in March 2010 and was ruled out for the 2010 tournament. A healthy but older Beckham was not selected for the English side at the 2012 European Championship, and he finished his national career with 115 international games played, the most in his country’s history for a non-goalkeeper.
After his playing days ended, Beckham remained involved in soccer. He notably was the owner and president of the MLS team Inter Miami CF, which made its debut in 2020.
In 1999 Beckham married singer Victoria Adams, best known as “Posh Spice” of the Spice Girls pop group, in a lavish ceremony. The intense media attention to the couple increased Beckham’s popularity around the world, as did his style of dress and ever-changing hairstyles. In 2003 he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). He released an eponymous memoir in 2014.
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Victoria Beckham, in full Victoria Caroline Adams Beckham, byname Posh Spice, (born April 17, 1974, Goff’s Oak, Hertfordshire, England), English singer and designer who gained stardom in the mid-1990s as a member of the pop band Spice Girls and later launched a successful line of clothing and accessories.
At age 20, Adams was one of the five young women selected to create the music group Spice Girls. The media christened Adams “Posh Spice,” a moniker frequently used to refer to her thereafter. In 1996 the band released its debut album, Spice, which included the hit single “Wannabe.” The album, which sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, made the Spice Girls a cultural phenomenon, and a year later the group released a second full-length album, Spiceworld, and appeared in Spice World: The Movie.
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In 1997 Adams also began a relationship with English football (soccer) player David Beckham. The couple, known as “Posh and Becks,” had a son, named Brooklyn, in March 1999 and four months later married in a lavish ceremony at a castle outside Dublin. They later had two more sons, Romeo (2002) and Cruz (2005), and a daughter, Harper (2011). From the early days of the marriage, the family was subjected to intense scrutiny from the British media. While the Spice Girls stayed together during this time, their third album, Forever, was released in 2000 to a decidedly lukewarm reception. The following year the group disbanded, though they had several subsequent reunions.
Beckham’s post-Spice Girls career was eclectic. In 2001 she released her self-titled first solo album and an autobiography, Learning to Fly. While the album failed to reach the top of the charts, Learning to Fly became a best seller in Britain. Beckham also appeared in a number of television documentaries, including Being Victoria Beckham (2002), The Real Beckhams (2003), and the six-episode Victoria Beckham: Coming to America (2007), all of which were based on various aspects of her work and family life.
Beckham made her first foray into fashion in 2004, debuting a line of denim called VB Rocks. Three years later she released collections of sunglasses and jeans, dVb denim, as well as the Intimately Beckham fragrance line. In 2008 Beckham expanded her fashion repertoire, rolling out a well-received dress collection; 2011 saw the release of a line of handbags, and a beauty line debuted in 2019. She also dabbled in modeling, appearing in runway shows as well as in print advertisements, and she authored a book of fashion advice, That Extra Half an Inch: Hair, Heels, and Everything in Between (2006). Beckham was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2017 for her services to the fashion industry.
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football, any of a number of related games, all of which are characterized by two persons or teams attempting to kick, carry, throw, or otherwise propel a ball toward an opponent’s goal. In some of these games, only kicking is allowed; in others, kicking has become less important than other means of propulsion.
For an explanation of contemporary football sports, see football (soccer); football, gridiron; rugby; Australian rules football; and Gaelic football.
The impulse to kick a round object has been present as long as humans have been humans. The first game of football was played when two or more people, acting on this impulse, competed in an attempt to kick a round object in one direction rather than in another. Evidence of organized football games in Greece and China goes back more than 2,000 years, but historians have no idea how these games were played. Claims that football of some sort was played throughout the Roman Empire are plausible, but the game of harpastum, often cited in support of these claims, seems to have involved throwing a ball rather than kicking it. Although kicking games were played by the indigenous peoples of North America, they were much less popular than the stickball games that are the origin of the modern game of lacrosse.
The folk football games of the 14th and 15th centuries, which were usually played at Shrovetide or Easter, may have had their origins in pagan fertility rites celebrating the return of spring. They were tumultuous affairs. When village competed against village, kicking, throwing, and carrying a wooden or leather ball (or inflated animal bladder) across fields and over streams, through narrow gateways and narrower streets, everyone was involved—men and women, adults and children, rich and poor, laity and clergy. The chaotic contest ended when some particularly robust or skillful villager managed to send the ball through the portal of the opposing village’s parish church. When folk football was confined within a single village, the sides were typically formed of the married versus the unmarried, a division which suggests the game’s origins in fertility ritual.
The game was violent. The French version, known as soule, was described by Michel Bouet in Signification du sport (1968) as “a veritable combat for possession of the ball,” in which the participants struggled “like dogs fighting over a bone.” The British version, which has been researched more thoroughly than any other, was, according to Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players (1979) by Eric Dunning and Kenneth Sheard, “a pleasurable form…of excitement akin to that aroused in battle.”
Not surprisingly, most of the information about medieval folk football is derived from legal documents. Edward II banned the game in 1314, and his royal successors repeated the prohibition in 1349, 1389, 1401, and 1423, all in a vain attempt to deprive their disobedient subjects of their disorderly pleasure. Despite the bans, records of criminal trials continue to refer to lives lost and property destroyed in the course of an annual football game. The most detailed account, however, is Richard Carew’s description of “hurling to goales,” from his Survey of Cornwall (1602).
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That British folk football did not become appreciably more civilized with the arrival of the Renaissance is suggested by Sir Thomas Elyot’s condemnation in The Governour (1537). He lamented the games “beastely fury, and extreme violence.” Even James I, who defended the legitimacy of traditional English pastimes when they were condemned by the Puritans, sought to discourage his subjects from indulging in folk football. He wrote in Basilikon Doron; or, His Majesties Instructions to His Dearest Sonne, Henry the Prince (1603) that the “rough and violent” game was “meeter for mameing than making able the [players] thereof.”
In Renaissance Italy the rough-and-tumble sport of folk football became calcio, a game popular among fashionable young aristocrats, who transformed it into a highly formalized and considerably less violent pastime played on bounded rectangular spaces laid out in urban squares such as Florence’s Piazza di Santa Croce. In his Discorso sopra il gioco del calcio fiorentino (1580; “Discourse on the Florentine Game of Calcio”), Giovanni Bardi wrote that the players should be “gentlemen, from eighteen years of age to forty-five, beautiful and vigorous, of gallant bearing and of good report.” They were expected to wear “goodly raiment.” In a contemporary print, uniformed pikemen guard the field and preserve decorum. (In 1909, in a moment of nationalistic fervour, the Federazione Italiana del Football changed its name to the Federazione Italiana Gioco del Calcio.)
As an aspect of more or less unbroken local tradition, in towns such as Boulogne-la-Grasse and Ashbourne (Derbyshire), versions of folk football survived in France and Britain until the early 20th century. Although all modern football sports evolved from medieval folk football, they derive more directly from games played in schoolyards rather than village greens or open fields. In 1747, in his “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College,” Thomas Gray referred to the “flying ball” and the “fearful joy” that it provided the “idle progeny” of England’s elite. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries at Eton, Harrow, Shrewsbury, Winchester, and other public schools, football was played in forms nearly as violent as the medieval version of the game. When the privileged graduates of these schools went on to Oxford and Cambridge, they were reluctant to abandon their “fearful joy.” Since none of them were ready to play by the rules of someone else’s school, the only rational solution was to create new games that incorporated the rules of several schools.
The institutional basis for the most widely played of these new games was England’s Football Association (1863). References to “Association football” were soon abbreviated to “soccer.” Graduates of Rugby School, accustomed to rules that permitted carrying and throwing as well as kicking the ball, played their game, rugby, under the aegis of the Rugby Football Union (1871). When Thomas Wentworth Wills (1835–80) combined Rugby’s rules with those from Harrow and Winchester, Australian rules football was born. In the United States, rugby was quickly transformed into gridiron football. (The name came from the white stripes that crossed the field at 10-yard [9.1-metre] intervals.) Although Gaelic football is similar to these other “codes,” that game was institutionalized under the auspices of the Gaelic Athletic Association (1884) as a distinctively Irish alternative to the imported English games of soccer and rugby.
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Manchester United, in full Manchester United Football Club, also called Manchester United FC, bynames Man U and the Red Devils, English professional football (soccer) team based in Manchester, England. Nicknamed “the Red Devils” for its distinctive red jerseys, it is one of the richest and best-supported football clubs not only in England but in the entire world. The club has won the English top-division league championship a record 20 times and the Football Association (FA) Cup 12 times.
The club was formed as Newton Heath LYR in 1878 by workers from the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. Renamed Manchester United in 1902, the club won its first English league championship in 1907–08. In 1910 the club moved from its old Bank Street ground into Old Trafford stadium, which has served as the team’s home ever since.
Manchester United’s history since World War II has been dominated by two long-serving managers. Sir Matthew Busby was appointed manager in 1945 and over the next 24 years steered the club to five English league and two FA Cup victories. The club had to contend with tragedy in 1958 when an aircraft carrying the team crashed in Munich, killing 23 of the 44 onboard. In the 1960s the team, rebuilt by Busby, included the highly talented attacking trio of Bobby Charlton, George Best, and Denis Law. In 1968 this team became the first English club to win the European Cup (now known as the Champions League) with a 4–1 victory over Benfica of Portugal in the final.
The former coach of the Scottish team Aberdeen, Alex Ferguson, managed the club from 1986 to 2013 and presided over an unparalleled spell of dominance in the English league. Manchester United has won 12 Premier League titles since that league’s inaugural season in 1992–93. In the 1998–99 season the club secured the first “treble” in English football history by winning the Premier League, the FA Cup, and the Champions League. A second Champions League victory came in the 2007–08 season.
Manchester United is renowned for its youth team program, which has generated many notable homegrown players who later performed for the club’s first team, including David Beckham. The club has also brought in a number of major transfer signings over the years, such as Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand, Andy Cole, Roy Keane, Eric Cantona, Patrice Evra, Dimitar Berbatov, and Cristiano Ronaldo.
The FIFA 100 is a list of Brazilian footballer Pelé's choice of the "greatest living footballers". Unveiled on 4 March 2004 at a gala ceremony in London, England, the FIFA 100 marked part of the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the international governing body of football.
The figure 100 refers to the 100th anniversary of FIFA and not the number of players listed, which is actually 125; Pelé had been asked to select 50 active players and 50 retired players, for a total of 100 players, but found it too difficult to limit the number of former players to just 50.[1] The list contains 123 professional male and 2 female players. At the time the FIFA 100 was selected, 50 of the players were still active, with the remaining 75 retired from the game.
Criticism
Some football observers have questioned the selection methodology of the list. David Mellor, politician turned football pundit, wrote in his column in the Evening Standard that he felt the selections were politically motivated rather than made on purely footballing grounds.[2] He suggested that the selections looked as if they came from the pen of Sepp Blatter rather than Pelé. As evidence for this, Mellor noted the wide geographical spread of the selected players: a true selection would be more heavily biased to South America and Europe, he argued. Such assertions were also forwarded by BBC columnist Tim Vickery.[3]
One of Pelé's old teammates, the former Brazil midfielder Gérson, reacted to his omission from the FIFA 100 by tearing up a copy of the list on a Brazilian television programme. Marco van Basten and Uwe Seeler refused to take part in the project on a point of principle.[4]
List
Following is the list of the "FIFA 100" greatest living footballers as nominated by Pelé in March 2004.[5][6][7]
Players active at the time of announcement are marked by (*). As of July 2022, Gianluigi Buffon is the only still active player on the list.
Nat. Player Pos. Born
ARG Gabriel Batistuta* FW 1969
ARG Hernán Crespo* FW 1975
ARG Alfredo Di Stéfano FW 1926
ARG Mario Kempes FW 1954
ARG Diego Maradona MF 1960
ARG Daniel Passarella DF 1953
ARG Javier Saviola* FW 1981
ARG Omar Sívori FW 1935
ARG Juan Sebastián Verón* MF 1975
ARG Javier Zanetti* DF/MF 1973
BEL Jan Ceulemans MF 1957
BEL Jean-Marie Pfaff GK 1953
BEL Franky Van der Elst MF 1961
BRA Carlos Alberto DF 1944
BRA Cafu* DF 1970
BRA Falcão MF 1953
BRA Pelé FW 1940
BRA Júnior MF 1954
BRA Rivaldo* MF 1972
BRA Rivelino MF 1946
BRA Roberto Carlos* DF 1973
BRA Romário* FW 1966
BRA Ronaldinho* MF/FW 1980
BRA Ronaldo* FW 1976
BRA Djalma Santos DF 1929
BRA Nílton Santos DF 1925
BRA Sócrates MF 1954
BRA Zico MF/FW 1953
BUL Hristo Stoichkov FW 1966
CMR Roger Milla FW 1952
CHI Elías Figueroa DF 1946
CHI Iván Zamorano FW 1967
COL Carlos Valderrama MF 1961
CRO Davor Šuker FW 1968
CZE Josef Masopust MF 1931
CZE Pavel Nedvěd* MF 1972
DEN Brian Laudrup FW 1969
DEN Michael Laudrup MF 1964
DEN Peter Schmeichel GK 1963
ENG Gordon Banks GK 1937
ENG David Beckham* MF 1975
ENG Bobby Charlton MF 1937
ENG Kevin Keegan FW 1951
ENG Gary Lineker FW 1960
ENG Michael Owen* FW 1979
ENG Alan Shearer* FW 1970
FRA Eric Cantona FW 1966
FRA Marcel Desailly* DF 1968
FRA Didier Deschamps MF 1968
FRA Just Fontaine FW 1933
FRA Thierry Henry* FW 1977
FRA Raymond Kopa MF 1931
FRA Jean-Pierre Papin FW 1963
FRA Robert Pires* MF 1973
FRA Michel Platini MF 1955
FRA Lilian Thuram* DF 1972
FRA Marius Trésor DF 1950
FRA David Trezeguet* FW 1977
FRA Patrick Vieira* MF 1976
FRA Zinedine Zidane* MF 1972
GER Michael Ballack* MF 1976
GER Franz Beckenbauer SW 1945
GER Paul Breitner MF/DF 1951
GER Oliver Kahn* GK 1969
GER Jürgen Klinsmann FW 1964
GER Sepp Maier GK 1944
GER Lothar Matthäus MF/SW 1961
GER Gerd Müller FW 1945
GER Karl-Heinz Rummenigge FW 1955
GER Uwe Seeler FW 1936
GHA Abédi Pelé FW 1964
HUN Ferenc Puskás FW 1927
ITA Roberto Baggio* FW/MF 1967
ITA Franco Baresi DF/SW 1960
ITA Giuseppe Bergomi DF 1963
ITA Giampiero Boniperti FW 1928
ITA Gianluigi Buffon* GK 1978
ITA Alessandro Del Piero* FW 1974
ITA Giacinto Facchetti DF 1942
ITA Paolo Maldini* DF 1968
ITA Alessandro Nesta* DF 1976
ITA Gianni Rivera MF 1943
ITA Paolo Rossi FW 1956
ITA Francesco Totti* FW/MF 1976
ITA Christian Vieri* FW 1973
ITA Dino Zoff GK 1942
JPN Hidetoshi Nakata* MF 1977
LBR George Weah FW 1966
MEX Hugo Sánchez FW 1958
NED Marco van Basten FW 1964
NED Dennis Bergkamp* FW 1969
NED Johan Cruyff FW 1947
NED Edgar Davids* MF 1973
NED Ruud Gullit MF 1962
NED René van de Kerkhof MF 1951
NED Willy van de Kerkhof MF 1951
NED Patrick Kluivert* FW 1976
NED Johan Neeskens MF 1951
NED Ruud van Nistelrooy* FW 1976
NED Rob Rensenbrink FW 1947
NED Frank Rijkaard MF/DF 1962
NED Clarence Seedorf* MF 1976
NGA Jay-Jay Okocha* MF 1973
NIR George Best MF 1946
PAR Romerito FW 1960
PER Teófilo Cubillas FW 1949
POL Zbigniew Boniek MF 1956
POR Eusébio FW 1942
POR Luís Figo* MF 1972
POR Rui Costa* MF 1972
IRL Roy Keane* MF 1971
ROU Gheorghe Hagi MF 1965
RUS Rinat Dasayev GK 1957
SCO Kenny Dalglish FW 1951
SEN El Hadji Diouf* FW 1981
KOR Hong Myung-bo* DF 1969
SPA Emilio Butragueño FW 1963
SPA Luis Enrique* MF 1970
SPA Raúl* FW 1977
TUR Rüştü Reçber* GK 1973
TUR Emre Belözoğlu* MF 1980
UKR Andriy Shevchenko* FW 1976
USA Michelle Akers MF/FW 1966
USA Mia Hamm* FW 1972
URU Enzo Francescoli FW/MF 1961
See also
World Soccer's Greatest Players of the 20th Century
World Team of the 20th Century
References
"Fifa names greatest list". BBC. 4 March 2004. Retrieved 30 April 2007.
Mellor, David (5 March 2004). "Sing up for Ken, a true Blues man". Evening Standard Ltd. p. 77.
Vickery, Tim (8 March 2004). "Pele pays price for popularity". BBC. Retrieved 30 April 2007.
Davies, Christopher (4 March 2004). "Pele open to ridicule over top hundred". The Daily Telegraph. UK. Archived from the original on 13 March 2007. Retrieved 10 February 2008.
"FIFA 100". Best Football Players Ever.
"The Fifa 100". The Guardian. 4 March 2004.
Pele's list of the greatest on BBC Sport, 4 March 2004
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"FIFA's Dirty Secrets"Garcia Report2015 FIFA corruption caseList of banned football officials
Others
FIFA (video game series)FIFA Confederations CupList of FIFA country codesFIFA Disciplinary CodeFIFA Fan FestFIFA Futbol MundialFIFA eligibility rulesFIFA International Match CalendarFIFA International Referees ListFIFA MasterFIFA Transfer Matching SystemFIFA World Cup TrophyNon-FIFAUnited Passions
Category Commons
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Pelé
Football career
International goalsRunaround moveFIFA Player of the CenturyComparisons to Maradona
Pelé
Eponym
Estádio Rei PeléPele FC
Media
Films
Escape to Victory (1981)Os Trapalhões e o Rei do Futebol (1986)Pelé Eterno (2004)Pelé: Birth of a Legend (2016)Pelé (2021)
Video games
Pelé's Soccer (1981)Pelé! (1993)Pelé II: World Tournament Soccer (1994)
Music
Pelé (1977)