How David Beckham became a one-man £750m empire
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How David Beckham became a one-man £750m empire

The Telegraph  

The goal that changed a World Cup qualifying campaign was scored 23 years ago this month by David Beckham, and while for many it would be the defining point of a career, for the man himself, it feels ever more a smaller part as the years roll by. Beckham, now 49, may be the most famous Englishman on the planet – even though he stopped playing professional football 11 years ago. A perfectly-executed free-kick that secured the draw that would take England to the 2002 World Cup finals and ensured the nation came to regard the man who struck it very differently. At the time, the Greece goal sealed the rehabilitation of Beckham with the England football public post-1998 red card.

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