David Beckkham, say what you think about him: The man, the legend, the modern day footballing celebrity, the PA shagger and the 100 England cap cry baby.
But all this doesn’t matter, well to him anyway. He’s played successfully at Man Utd, Real Madrid and recently LA Galaxy. Whilst a lot of people believe playing in America was more to do with boosting his wife’s profile and giving him an easier ride, we aren’t ones to complain. The Yanks are paying him more then anything he got at his previous clubs to be injured most of the time. As you’ll agree, a brilliant bit of business for David to go along with his other sponsorship deals with pens, Pepsi and razors.
However, what is encouraging from Beckham is his desire to get more kids in to playing football. So far there are football schools/camps in London and America. Though you do have to question the sort of people who go to these schools. In London, will the average kid from a run down estate be able to go? I seriously doubt it, and more the case, it will be a rich kid whose mummy and daddy can kit him/her out in David Beckham branded clothes, footballs, shin pads and lunchboxes. What annoys me more is that it’s in London, which immediately isolates anyone outside of the M25. People from Milton Keynes upwards have heard of football to! With all this Olympic regeneration going on in London for 2012, once again it appears that everywhere else misses out due to funding being diverted in to the claws of cockneys everywhere.
In America, I can only see a small percent of people taking part in the football camps seriously. Once again, David Beckham’s name will come in to play too much and people will just want to emulate their celebrity hero. All in the hope that they get a photocopied signed picture of Beckham from his 1997 haircut era.
After talking with a friend, I was amazed to find out that Beckham is set to open another football school. This time it will be outside of England and America. So we played a guessing game of where it could be from.
China, India, Thailand, Scotland, Wales, Japan, Switzerland and Poland were all met with no answers from my mate. When he told me which country it was, I couldn’t quite believe it:
Brazil.
Bloody Brazil if no-one has noticed they don’t need help learning how to play football of a pasty English bloke. So far they’ve managed quite well to win the odd world cup. Their players aren’t bad either. If I remember rightly, Kaka is currently being touted as the world’s most expensive footballer with Mr Moneybags at Chelsea wanting him to join his army of football God’s.
David why are you helping a nation who can already do fifty kick ups a second when your own country is currently banning kids from playing football? I never thought I’d say this, but please come back to England and help the little chubby children learn how to kick a ball without them suing the council for making them break in to a sweat.
