2023-10-18 12:09:44
by Maurizio Porro
The series dedicated to the English midfielder transcends sporting successes to tell the story of the champion’s “proletarian” origins up to his golden wedding with Victoria Adamas
The question is: will those who don’t understand football, like myself, be able to appreciate a series centered on a rich champion like Beckham? The answer is yes, it is enough to work the sports fabric with the character of this sex symbol hero who played on two tables, the family (four children with Victoria, one of the Spice girls) and the problems of football which were also important, so much so relegating him for a long time, due to a gesture of anger, among the players most hated by the fans. And the series meets all the real players in Beckham’s life and career, often jumping between past and present. But that’s a thing of the past, in the meantime there has been worldwide success, the ability to dictate fashion (zero haircut, today sandals with socks), the fury of paparazzi and gossip, worse than the royal couple.
But above all, the most famous midfielder in the world, nominated six times for the Ballon d’Or and in the list of the best players of the 20th century, lived over 20 years of glory on the English pitches of Manchester, with which he won 12 trophies, before moving on to Real Madrid, at Milan, at GalaXy in Los Angeles, in a sort of amateur team (with gardeners and pool cleaners) and finally at Paris Saint German, where he achieved his last victory in 2013. At 48, showing off his most dazzling and melancholy smile, David Robert Joseph Beckam, who was only 16 years old, on 8 July 91, says he signed the contract with Manchester United, entrusted by the first to the second father as the coach.
A successful biographical series, in 4 episodes named after him, over an hour each, on Netflix, in which private life and footballer life are mixed, with some of the best moments of life as a goal scorer, including the famous tripping of his colleague Argentinian who caused him endless trouble. And almost nothing is hidden, according to agreements with the billionaire sports and marketing hero. He was an icon of goals, penalty kicks and of a family, Manchester, to which his father handed him over at a very young age after training him in the home garden with corner shots. Born in London on 2 May 1975, Beckham comes from a humble family, with a painter father and a hairdresser mother, like a Ken Loach film: no one would have guessed in that blond boy the 1.82 meter boy who would play 100 games for England , of which 59 as captain.
Time magazine defined him as the icon of the year in 2004 and today it is surprising to hear him talk about it apparently without emotion, but remembering with precision the details of each challenge. And it is curious that Beckham, as his wife says, exhausted by many moves around the world, has a mania for order that is obsessive compulsive, going night and night around the large villa near London called Beckingham Palace, cleaning the candles and putting objects out of place, making the kitchen steels shine, on which he enjoys grilling meat, like not even in the most furious commercial. And he prepares his clothes to wear a week in advance: yet if he has, as they say, 190 million pounds, he could afford an army of servants. He is certainly a character, only for the fact of his social leap, becoming, wherever he moved, the king of the place and fraternizing with Hollywood stars like Tom Cruise.
He has been married since 4 July 1999 to the singer Victoria Adams (honeymoon also in the home of Webber, the king of musicals) who has suffered every game, every training session, every trip of her husband. There were frictions, at home and on the field, bitter relationships with the coaches and sometimes being left on the bench was very painful for him, like the expulsion with a red card from the World Cup in ’98. Of course the retirement, so to long postponed, he made it become another, after 394 games and 85 goals and in fact the series ends with the Super 8 images of dad Beckham playing a match with his son in the garden. Everything is told, while the topic of money is not touched upon, especially when referring to when Beckham was chosen as ambassador of the World Cup in Qatar last year: and in the past our man had said he was proud of being a gay icon, while in Qatar homosexuality she is punished ferociously. But it is said that the profession of football contains adrenaline and perhaps even a pinch of madness which also takes stonings and resurrections into account, always amidst the outcry of the crowds.
October 18, 2023 (modified October 18, 2023 | 12:09)
© ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
#Beckham #family #saga #football #fans #score #time.news