why david beckham is the richest player?
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Because he has more sponser deals than any other player. And he has a wife that was once in a famous girl band. Thankfully she no longer sings.
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David Robert Joseph Beckham OBE (born May 2, 1975 in Leytonstone, London) is an English footballer. He currently plays for Real Madrid and as captain of the English national team, especially noted for the quality of his crossing and ability to hit free-kicks and corners, particularly from long-range. He is also famed for his celebrity lifestyle trappings, media attention and marketing potential.\n\nHe signed schoolboy forms for Manchester United in 1989, became a trainee in 1991 and signed a professional contract with them soon after making his first first-team appearance in 1992. By 1995, he had established himself as a first-team player at United and won Premier League and FA Cup winners' medals with the club in 1996. He was soon selected to play for England, but after winning another league medal in 1997, he was sent off in a World Cup match against Argentina for kicking Diego Simeone. Beckham became a figure of public hatred among many English football supporters, but he continued to play well and helped United win the league, FA Cup, and UEFA Champions League the following year. His relationship with the club's manager Sir Alex Ferguson began to deteriorate, though, and although he won further league championships with United in 2000 and 2001, he left the club to join Real Madrid in 2003. While his performances for Real Madrid have attracted praise, the team itself has been in turmoil. As of November 2005, Beckham has had 5 different coaches in Real Madrid and failed to win any major trophies with his struggling new team.\n\nBeckham's relationship with and marriage to the former Spice Girl Victoria (née Adams) has contributed towards him becoming a major celebrity away from football, and his name was searched for on Google more than that of any other sporting personality in 2003 and 2004.[1] The Beckhams have three sons, Brooklyn, born March 4, 1999, Romeo, born September 1, 2002, and Cruz, born February 20, 2005.
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He's worth it..\nand Chelsea is a rich!!\npoor arsenal! unable to buy players at will
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football is not really about scoring goals - take control of the game and the goals will come.\n\nand it is not at all about 'transfer value' - football is a sport not a business.\n\nthe greatest england player of all time was probably stanley matthews. i suspect even bobby charlton and gary lineker would agree with such an estimation.
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In answer to yur first question currently david beckham is the highest paid this soon could be michael ballack because chelsea have bottomless pockets there is also speculation ronahldinio may sign a new contract that would entitle him to £90,000 a week. In answer to question 2 i would imagine that this is correct as the USA capital of NBA is a much larger country than the UK capital of the FA. Although the only thing that may contradict this is the folowig of football all over the world i.e. world cup to which NBA hasnt got a version of. Hope this helps ;o)
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Yes, Beckham was sold to a team in Spain by Manchester United. He's thinking of coming to the MLS to play. He was sold to Spain because he was getting old and not living up to the high English Premier standards. Don't get me wrong he's a great player, but there are so many younger players in the Premier league that he couldn't keep up. In the MLS though, he would be one of their better players because all of the really good ones go the the English Premier league
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David Beckham DDDUUUUHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\n!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
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Beckham plays for England.
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True. As you they could not land all the good players at stamford bridge without his money, or Jose Mourihno. His money is everything for Chelsea.
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Yeah, between age, hype and skill, Beck's is definitely over paid and over rated.  He should cut his losses and come to MLS now where he will 'appear' to be one of the 'World Class' players in the league.\n\nIn Spain, the competition is so strong that you can't get by being a right mid who thinks he is a center mid who is best known for his free kicks.... I mean, how many of those do you really get a game?\n\nAt Man Utd he was surrounded by close friends who he had played with forever, they knew each other implicity.  Scholes, the Neville's and Giggs, and Roy keeping them all in line.\n\nThen he goes Hollywood, marries a spice girl (invents a new stupid word 'metrosexual')... and forgets that he is a soccer player, not an actor/model/Joseph (did you see that nativity set??)\n\nNow he has to play based on his own ability without that comfort or support net... CRASH!\n\nYou keep hearing rumors of him going back to England, but to Arsenal... LOL.  I think Weneger the Arse knows better...
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David Beckham. He gets up to £30,000,000 per year from salary and endorsements.
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David Beckham is internationally known.  I think it is great he is lending support to such an effort.  Does he pay more attention to his hair?  I thought he was a good player.   Don't you think using David will get more attention than using an unknown?  Unicef made millions using Abba, Olivia Newton John, Andy Gibb and others in the 70s.
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tough one.\nThe money paid to the so called "top players" is out of all proportion.\nYou cannot  put the fire or the hunger back unless they are hungry. \nIn the UK, there are too many overseas players (bought to ensure the success of the big clubs) and not enough good young British players get the chance to come through. It's a CATCH 22, they don't get the experience & they can't get picked without proving their ability.\nYou are right about the achilles heel - it's gone too far at this stage.\nYou need really good leadership that can create a hunger for success, England didn't have it with Sven, Chelsea & United have had it in recent years. Can Steve McClaren create the desire for success with the English team - where money is secondary to cash? Perhaps.
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They may be rich and all but they lack team play and spirit. It might seem easy to win all competitions by buying practically any player you want, but Madrid can't succeed because the players are all big egos who can't complement or tolerate one another.\n\nJust because they have Raul, Ronaldo, Zidane, Beckham etc. doesn't mean much to me cos you have to look at the team as a whole, not the individuals. Besides Zidane, Carlos etc. are all getting on with age so Madrid isn't much good.
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Ok heres my view. Celebrities I don't think are over paid. Movie stars are definately not. The work they put into there role is amazing. As for footballers I believe they are stupidly over paid. When you think that people play football for fun the majority of football stars today are only in it for the money and don't even play that great. It get ridiculous, especially if they are supposed to big a fan of the team they are playing for yet want to demand as much money out of there team as possible. Come on the only good players I know are Van Nistleroy, Henry, and Terry.
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babes they get paid to much money really even you must think that but if you got it you got it lol hun\n\n1 Ronaldinho (Barcelona) £32.6m\n2 David Beckham (Real Madrid) £31.2m\n3 Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) £30.4m\n4 Samuel Eto’o (Barcelona) £21.3m\n5 Lionel Messi (Barcelona) £21.1m\n6 Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Juventus) £20.9m\n7 Ronaldo (Real Madrid) £20.4m\n8 Frank Lampard (Chelsea) £20m\n9 Thierry Henry (Arsenal) £19.95m\n10 Michael Ballack (Bayern Munich) £19.9m\n hope this helps, \nbut here a site for more info on the world cup hun
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Actually Ronaldinho replaced Beckham as the highest paid footballer last year.