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Trivia
Beckham never appeared in the 2002 film Bend It Like Beckham except in archive
footage. He and his wife wanted to make cameo appearances but scheduling proved
difficult so the director used lookalikes instead.
Beckham makes a cameo appearance with Zidane and Raùl in the 2005 football film
Goal! where he says hello to the main character during a party about halfway
through the film.
With his free kick goal against Ecuador in the second round of the 2006 World
Cup, Beckham gained membership into two of football's most exclusive clubs: he
became the only English player — and the 21st player regardless of nationality —
to score in three world cups. Real Madrid team-mate Raùl also achieved this feat
a few days earlier. It also made him only the fifth player in World Cup history
to score twice from direct free kicks; the other four were Pelé, Rivelino,
Teófilo Cubillas and Bernard Genghini (Beckham had previously scored this way
against Colombia in the first round of the 1998 World Cup). All three goals were
against South American teams (Colombia, Argentina, and Ecuador).
Beckham has nine tattoos on his body, one of which is the name of his wife
Victoria but it is written in Hindi rather than English because Beckham thought
it would be "tacky" to have it written in English. The tattoo is misspelled,
however, so the tattoo actually reads "Vhictoria" rather than "Victoria".
Another tattoo, written in Hebrew reads, "I am my beloved's, and my beloved is
mine, that shepherds among the lilies." This is from the Song of Songs in the
Hebrew Bible, and a popular Jewish paean to fidelity. Beckham has also been
ridiculed in the press for looking like a "Hell's Angel biker" and a "football
yob" due to his ever-expanding number of tattoos, the design, and the location
of them.
Beckham almost always plays in long sleeve shirts to cover up aforementioned
tattoos, as they are considered indecent in some countries.
Beckham is the only player to be sent off twice while playing for England.
In the romantic comedy Love Actually, Hugh Grant, as the Prime Minister of
Britain, lists "David Beckham's right foot" as one of the things that makes
Britain great, quickly adding "David Beckham's left foot, come to think of it
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