David Robert Joseph Beckham

[Red Army]

kemarin dulu saya liat Becks gagah pakai jersey ini, sekarang kok mau muntah ya...

[erin]

penasaran...ntr kalo ketemu MU..hbs tanding, beckham ma Fergie salaman gk yah?
ato malah minum champagne bareng???
heheheheh

[hendiplast]

Beckham Dirindukan Old Trafford



MANCHESTER, KOMPAS.com - Direktur Manchester United, Phil Townsend, menilai, mantan gelandang mereka, yang kini merumput di LA Galaxy, David Bekham, merupakan pemain yang berjasa besar kepada "Setan Merah". Menurutnya, Beckham bakal disambut dengan ramah lagi meriah.

Pernyataan itu berkaitan dengan hasil undian babak 16 besar Liga Champions, yang mempertemukan AC Milan dengan MU. Pertandingan di Old Trafford bakal digelar pada tangga 3 Maret 2010.

Mengingat mulai Januari mendatang Beckham akan membela Milan sebagai pemain pinjaman, Townsend berharap, Beckham dianugerahkan kebugaran supaya bisa datang ke Old Trafford. Menurutnya, meski di lapangan Beckham akan menjadi lawan, secara emosional, Beckham selalu merupakan bagian keluarga Old Trafford.

"Beckham akan mendapat sambutan fantastis, sebagaimana (mantan) pemain lain yang kembali ke Old Trafford. Ia adalah abdi yang luar biasa bagi klub ini dan kami semua berharap ia akan bermain," ungkap Townsend.

"Manchester United melawan AC Milan adalah tingkatan yang berkaitan dengan segala yang berbau Liga Champions. Kami telah menghadapi mereka empat kali dalam 52 tahun. Tanpa bermaksud (meremehkan Milan), saya sangat berharap masa kami akan datang musim ini," lanjutnya.

Beckham membela MU pada periode 1993-2003. Semenjak meninggalkan MU ke Madrid pada 2003, ia belum pernah kembali ke Old Trafford. (FBI)

[drivemein]

David Beckham: Icons of the decade
-guardian.co.uk-



In 2000 David Beckham symbolised celebrity worship and ostentatious wealth. In 2010 he stands for hard work, charity and family values – and is heading for his fourth World Cup.

Such is David Beckham's godlike status these days – sporting ambassador, style guru, model father, stoic asthma-sufferer – it's easy to forget how unpopular he was at the start of the decade. England supporters still hadn't forgiven him for the petulance that earned him a red card against Argentina in the 1998 World Cup finals (and which led to his effigy being burned outside a London pub). As he left the pitch after the Euro 2000 defeat by Portugal, he was barracked by a section of fans and gave them the finger. Things were no better at away games for Manchester United, when the imagined peccadilloes of Victoria Becks (rhymes with posterior sex) would be chanted at him each time he took a corner.

There was also the increasingly difficult relationship with Alex Ferguson, who, despite Beckham setting up the two last-gasp goals that won the European Cup in 1999, thought that Posh was having a bad effect ("The lad was never a problem until he got married"). In the spring of 2000 Ferguson dropped Beckham for missing training to babysit his sick son, Brooklyn. His future at both club and international level looked in serious doubt.

In November 2000, though, Beckham became England captain. The following April, he helped Manchester United to their third league title in a row. And then in October 2001 came one of the highlights of his career. England were 2-1 down against Greece, with time running out and automatic World Cup qualification in peril, when a free kick was awarded outside the penalty area. Everyone knew who would take it. And everyone knew what he would try to do (the film Bend It Like Beckham wouldn't be out for another year, but the skill its title celebrated was already his trademark). The Greeks should have known, too, but they put only four men in the wall, and Beckham swung the ball round them into the top corner. The draw was enough to take England to the finals in Japan, where Beckham exorcised the demons of four years earlier by scoring the only goal (a dubiously awarded penalty) in the defeat of Argentina.

Perhaps icons become the more iconic for being chipped and tarnished; we prefer our heroes flawed. Beckham is no Tiger Woods: affairs or not, he's good with the press and hasn't alienated his sponsors. But his qualities aren't those normally associated with ambassadors. Intelligence? His shortness up top is legendary and nothing to do with close-cropped hair. (Sample joke among hundreds: Posh comes home one day to find Becks jumping for joy at having solved a jigsaw puzzle: "53 days, it only took me 53 days, and on the box it says 3-6 years!") Good taste? At their OK! magazine-contracted, half-million pound wedding, Posh and Becks sat on a pair of golden thrones. Articulacy? The voice is squeaky, the accent Leytonstone, and in one TV interview, while answering just five questions, he said "you know" 19 times. Patience? Fair play? That silly kick at Simeone in 1998 didn't put an end to Beckham's petulance. During his time as a Real Madrid player from 2003-7, he earned 41 yellow cards and four reds.

But Beckham has something few footballers possess: beautiful looks, he's an art-object in his own right. Forget the frantic hairstyles (skinhead, Mohican, ponytail, kiss-curl, spiky, slicked back, bleached, etc) and the wretched tattoos. Forget the sarong and the experiments with pink nail varnish. However silly the get-up, his good looks can't be disguised: brown eyes, a winning smile and (as seen in underwear ads as well as the shirt-exchanges at the end of games) a terrific body. Sam Taylor-Wood recognised it when she made a film of him sleeping. Peter Blake, Alison Jackson and Antony Gormley have all produced art-works inspired by him. And Tracey Emin exhibited a letter she sent him, along with a photo of herself half-naked on a bed – the sort of come-on Posh must spend half her life fending off.

Some thought the obsession with fashion and celebrity would be the ruin of Beckham, much as alcohol destroyed George Best. But Beckham had been into clothes from an early age. At the age of six, for a family wedding, he delighted in choosing his pageboy outfit – maroon knickerbockers, white stockings, frilly shirt, ballet shoes ("I'd have worn it to school if they'd let me"). He is famously fastidious, too, once refusing to give a fellow player a lift after training in case he scuffed the leather seats of the new Becksmobile. For a footballer to be a gay icon transgresses the laws of beery machismo, but Beckham has pulled it off.

His other great asset is the ability to reinvent himself. When he moved to Los Angeles, it seemed like semi-retirement or a first step towards a career in Hollywood. But then he found a second home, at AC Milan, and began to be taken seriously as a footballer again. For 15 years he was loyal to one city and one club. These days he's the image of mobility – an emissary of intercontinental understanding, equally content to hang out with Sepp Blatter, Nelson Mandela or Tom Cruise. There's his gentleness, too: the new man, the metrosexual, the doting dad.

Some fans would prefer him to be tougher: had his dodgy metatarsal not made him shirk a Roberto Carlos tackle in Japan in 2002, allowing Brazil to sweep downfield and equalise, might England have gone on to win the match and the tournament? All three World Cups Beckham has played in have ended in disappointment and "what ifs?" But the miracle is that he's survived to take part in a fourth.

In truth, he was only ever a very good footballer, not a great one, and at 34 he is well past his best. Though sentimentalists would like to see him play at the World Cup finals in South Africa, he'll come on only if things are desperate or because England have already been eliminated. His totemic value to the squad shouldn't be underestimated, though. And meanwhile there's the time he devotes to good causes, whether raising money for Unicef or setting up academies for young footballers in poor communities. Above all, perhaps, there's his determination to keep going, epitomised by the recent shot of him using an inhaler and the revelation that he has suffered from asthma since childhood.

In 2000, Beckham seemed to symbolise the worst of our culture (narcissism, celebrity worship and ostentatious wealth). In 2010, he stands for hard work, charity, perseverance, family values and global harmony. It's almost a surprise that he didn't attend the climate change conference in Copenhagen. But doubtless he'll be at the next one.

[Andi Istiabudi]

Hmm... kok jersey AC Milan jadi agak aneh ya ? Coba perhatikan celana yang dikenakan David Beckham, kok sekarang lebih mirip celana basket yach ? Kebesaran tampaknya ... Berbeda dengan seragam AC Milan pertengahan 1990an yang bagus.

[zudomiriku]

Originally Posted by Andi Istiabudi

Hmm... kok jersey AC Milan jadi agak aneh ya ? Coba perhatikan celana yang dikenakan David Beckham, kok sekarang lebih mirip celana basket yach ? Kebesaran tampaknya ... Berbeda dengan seragam AC Milan pertengahan 1990an yang bagus.

itu kostum Milan pas tahun lalu deh, kalo kostum Milan yg skrg gak tau deh celananya masih gombrong gak

[B4YU]

Originally Posted by zudomiriku

itu kostum Milan pas tahun lalu deh, kalo kostum Milan yg skrg gak tau deh celananya masih gombrong gak

keknya nggak tuh

[zudomiriku]

Originally Posted by B4YU

keknya nggak tuh

yg pic DB kan celana nya panjang ampe lutut, kalo yg Pirlo diatas lutut, berarti celana Milan musim ini gak kyk celana basket. kalo celana seh gpp, asal jangan jersey nya aja kyk kostum basket

[Andi Istiabudi]

Originally Posted by zudomiriku

..... asal jangan jersey nya aja kyk kostum basket

Timnas Cameroon sempat memakai kostum mirip kostum basket, untungnya belum ada klub di dunia ini yang menerapkannya. Keliatan aneh aja ...

[Diego]

wah pasti penjualan jersey milan meningkat tajam semester pertama 2010 nih......