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...Talk about globalization. David Beckham, the soccer player in question, is almost certainly the best-known sports star in the world. He doesn't make the most money - in last week's SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, soccer guru Grant Wahl reckoned Beckham, 28, earns close to $30 million a year, which is way less than the earnings of golfer Tiger Woods and Formula One racing driver Michael Schumacher - but Beckham's agency, SFX, which is owned by Clear Channel, the radio and concert giant, hasn't done badly by the boy. It is Beckham's name that's on the title...
...Deal For Real? Buying David Beckham enriches Real Madrid's commercial prospects but may leave it poorer on the pitch. Rumors swirling around the Spanish soccer club suggest the arrival of the English star has upset Luis Figo, Madrid's spiky-haired Portuguese ace. Figo plays on the right side of midfield, Beckham's best position. Although Figo is by common consent the better player, insiders say he is worried the club may give his role to the new guy for purely commercial reasons. Rather than warm the bench, Figo is said to be looking for another team. Europe...
...also leads in free-kick conversions, the English player's stock-in-trade. In fact, Madrid has two players who take free kicks better than Beckham: apart from Figo, there's also fullback Roberto Carlos. Why, then, did the Spanish club agree to pay €35 million for skills it already has? The answer to that question came last week from Tokyo, where Beckham and his wife Victoria arrived to promote a brand of chocolate and a chain of beauty salons. Wherever they went, Posh and Becks were mobbed by fans wearing Beckham shirts and waving Beckham dolls. Staking...
...magazine threw a party to honor our 2003 European Heroes (TIME Europe, April 28), 36 amazing people - some famous, most not - who provoke, inspire and generally make the world a better place. Not all of our heroes could make the event; British football star and freelance style icon David Beckham had to meet with Nelson Mandela in South Africa instead. But it was quite a night. Liam Gallagher of Oasis came by to pick up an award on behalf of the Who's Roger Daltrey, who has helped build eight hospital wards for the U.K.'s Teenage Cancer Trust. (Daltrey...
BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM. This touching English comedy has won rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic for its humorous depiction of women’s soccer. Or, as the characters would say, football. The movie follows the trials and tribulations of an 18 year-old Sikh girl determined to pursue a career in professional football. Her incredible on-field talent, though, is not enough to convince her religiously orthodox parents to allow her to trade the kitchen for the football pitch. So, she runs away from her home in West London to move to Hamburg and follow...