Beckham is one of the stars of the global and english foot ball, he plays in spanish club ( real madrid )
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He was born on the 2 May 1975 in Leytonstone, Essex
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He is still one of the top 5 finishers in the world. His carrer had gone a foot backwards when he went to Real Madrid. But I think he made the right decision to leave Real. It's hard to believe that he is still only 26. In my opinion his transfer to R. Madrid was a setback to his carrer. But now he is back in the premiership and once he gets fit, he is going to regain huis place of one of the best strikers around.
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there are national teams, then every country has a domestic league, man U. and arsenal play in england's premiership, their highest domestic level
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Eric Cantona!  Frenchman who played for Manchester United.  One of the best.
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Players incomes are in millions of euros: \n\n\nPLAYER                       SALARY             TOTAL\n\n1.  Ronaldinho             8.5               23.0\n2.  David Beckham          6.4               18.0\n3.  Ronaldo                6.4               17.4\n4.  Wayne Rooney           5.2               16.1\n5.  Christian Vieri        4.0               16.0\n6.  Zinedine Zidane        6.4               15.0\n7.  Alessandro del Piero   4.2               11.5\n8.  Frank Lampard          7.2                9.8\n9.  Thierry Henry          4.5                9.8\n10. John Terry             5.9                9.7\n11. Steven Gerrard         6.7                9.2\n12. Oliver Kahn            6.0                9.1\n13. Rio Ferdinand          7.2                9.0\n14. Raul Gonzalez          6.4                8.9\n15. Michael Owen           5.0                8.7\n16. Ruud van Nistelrooy    6.4                8.5\n17. Francesco Totti        5.6                8.4\n18. Michael Ballack        5.5                8.4\n19. Harry Kewell           5.7                7.9\n20. Patrick Vieira         5.0                7.5\nhttp://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000086&sid=aJp.OpANDbuU&refer=latin_america\n\nParis, April 25 (DPA) Brazilian soccer star Ronaldinho displaced David Beckham as the globe's highest-paid footballer, the French weekly France Football reported Tuesday. \n\nThe 2005 winner of the Ballon d'Or for best footballer in the world, who plays with Barcelona, will earn a total of 23 million euros ($28.5 million) this year, nearly three times as much as he made in 2005.\n\nThis total includes a salary of 8.5 million euros in bonuses and about 14 million euros income from advertising.\n\nBeckham came in second on the list, with earnings of 18 million euros for 2006, down from the 25 million euros he made last year.\n\nHe was followed by another Real Madrid 'Galactico', Brazilian striker Ronaldo with 17.4 million euros, England striker Wayne Rooney with 16.1 million euros and Monaco's Italian striker Christina Vieri at 16 million euros.\n\nWhile there are only two Chelsea players among the world's top 20 earners, the club's outspoken coach, Jose Mourinho, topped the trainer list with 10.9 million euros.\n\nFar behind in second place was England's Swedish coach Sven-Goran Eriksson with 6.9 million euros, followed by Manchester United trainer Alex Ferguson at 5.95 million euros.\n\nhttp://in.sports.yahoo.com/060425/43/63s57.html\n\n\nBrazil's Ronaldinho, the world player of the year, ended David Beckham's three-year tenure as soccer's richest player, according to France Football magazine's annual rich list. Ronaldinho's earnings more than tripled in the last year to 23 million euros ($28.5 million), $6.2 million more than Beckham.\nhttp://www.startribune.com/503/story/393205.html
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He's so important to England the F.A. will do a Beckham on him. They'll take him and hope he recovers in time to play after the group stage. Does the injury harm Englands chances?. You bet it does.
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Well as you know the premier league is highly competitive and it requires every player to give it all they have. It is unfortunate the situation England is. All I can say is the players are not only dedicated to their country, they are also dedicated to the team(s) they play for.
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i know i'll take a bashing from the english football fans here but here goes anyways... in retrospect to most english footballers, they do make too much money!  technically-that is skillwise-they're english players are far inferior to say, spanish, argentine, brazilian, dutch, czech or-oh my god! even french players. take david beckham for example... the man is above-average at best... he's not great goalscorer like ronaldinho, doesn't possess riquelme's vision, figo's footwork, nedved's playmaking penchant nor landon donovan's speed. we're never going to compare him to zidane for a myriad of reasons-most of which have to deal with ability. he doesn't even play any real defence. all of these downgraded abilities and yet, only ronaldinho makes more money than he does.  why?  because of looks...!  (chuckles...) then there're are individuals such as jermaine defoe whom i can never recall ever starting a match for team england-and rightfully so-yet he makes millions.  onward, we have the goalkeeper, robinson who would not start for my national team, romania if he were selectable by the head coach, victor piturca.  i cannot remember sol cambell, joe cole or shaun wright-phillips haven't really made serious impressions on me. ofcourse, there are exceptions... rooney is a boatload of talent, sheringham continues to be a warrior and steven gerrard is by far, the best midfielder england have now... he even scored today, versus trinidad and tobago.  then there are players such as crouch and, possibly the best england has to offer, michael owen. this brings us to a serious question: why don't these players make anywhere nearly as much as beckham-i mean, i really understand ronaldinho's income-he deserves every penny and more. what is depressing to me is that beckham isn't even the best midfielder on his national team let alone in europe, with the likes of rosicky, nedved, figo, ballack, antonio reyes and so forth-or the world with riquelme, donovan, ronalaldinho, robinho as well as julio baptista getting the nod from me over beckham-and i watch and follow loads of football-you would think i really didn't have a social life if you all would know how much football i follow. therfore, i know what i am arguing about! although footballers do not make anywhere near the kind of money that nba basketball players or pga tour professional golfers make on a yearly basis, some are grossly overpaid-especially in england.  to compare the earnings parity among the different sports: as much money as ronaldinho and beckham make-both in the vicinty of $25 million- kevin garnett of the nba makes $28 million per year in salary alone-not including very lucrative endorsements. shaquille o'neal makes more than $30 million a year in salary alone. let's not even discuss kobe bryant. the single most boring sport you can ever wacth on telivision, golf, brings tiger woods more than $60 million a year in total. phil mickelson more than $25 million. therfore, in comparison, footballers' pay, anywhere in the world i'm afraid, pale in comparison to athletic earnings from your brothers in arms from acroos the atlantic-and i do not mean canada!!! footballers face much more pressure to perform well than athletes here in the united states and then there're all the politics involved-such as when say, germany suit up against poland or ireland republic play england. everyone on both side play their hearts out when turkey face greece and serbia face either bosnia-herzigovina or croatia. we, as romanians, lose our minds when we play hungary. this unique to only football, and adds alot of pressure. when you really think about it, eleven or so men can cause the utmost national pride or adversely depress millions, in seconds. football is the only sport consistently used as political propaganda-remember el salvador-honduras? the match only pushed things over the edge and gave both nations' leade
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This link ( http://www.thefa.com/NR/exeres/6F6E22D3-48C3-467C-98BE-5901A2232212,frameless.htm?NRMODE=Published ) has EVERY player in the current English team. If you click on each picture it has more information on each player.\n\nHere are other good links:\n\nhttp://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/w/team/squad.html?team=ENG <-- The FIFA team page for England.\n\nhttp://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/w/photos/eng.html <-- General Photographs.
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Did he already go to Chelsea? Wow! Yeah he is good, not great, but good. Currently the world's best player is none other than RONALDINHO GAUCHO in Barca...in Spain...in La Liga...you get the point duh.
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David Beckham scored first goal against COLOMBIA in June 1998.
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I certainly do. When teams like Chelsea and Arsenal field an all foreign team it is dreadful. People say that there are not enough good English players around. I disagree. Look what Fergie did at Man Utd in bringing players like the Neville brothers, Scholes, Beckham and Giggs through the system. Many managers will not persevere with young English players. They go and buy foreigners because they are quite often cheaper and will accept lower wages. Also signing foreign players is sometimes a quick fix. It takes time to nurture young players and some clubs will not give managers enough time to do this as they want instant results. Restricting the number of foreign players would make clubs have a rethink and it would be better for the national team. Of all the foreign players playing in England how many are really top class players? Not that many.
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It is a commercial campaign trying to explain that footbll is the peoples game. If you see the commercials, these football stars go into small towns and pick 10 other players and play matches against other stars and their teams. So, it is Beckham +10 versus Kaka +10 for example.
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He is past it. Worst mistake of his life marrying that controlling skeletor look-a-like. She wishes she was Nancy Delalio (sp)!\n\nHe should never had gone to Madrid. He would have been better off doing what Cantona did and retire at Man U leaving an awesome legacy. Now he's just going to fad into the background. Serves him right too!\n\nHe had it all here, he thought he was bigger and better than he is and was just chewed up and spit out by the Eurpean club. When will English players learn - European football is a completely different game. Very few suceeed overseas.\n\nSpurs won't have him if they know whats good for em. \n\nHe should piss offf to America and we can be rid of the Beckhams for good! :)
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Gotta love Football Manager.\n\nHe's playing for Braga in Portugal.  Where the air is clear - world apart from Boro.
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The teams are comprised of passport holders of the nation they represent.  There is no player playing for a different country.  What you may see is a player that belongs to a club in another country, but not the national team.\nYou are correct, they don´t get to practice together for too long, usually a couple of months.  That is why they have as many friendly matches against other countries as they can.
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Real Madrid are a sinking ship. They will soon sell / retire a number of their star players. The five year 'Galacticos' experiement has failed miserably at Real Madrid, and the club cannot afford to keep paying those outrageous transfer fees and salaries if there are no trophies coming in to help defray the cost.\nThierry Henry will stay at Arsenal for the next few years.