“Former England captain David Beckham will be dancing for joy after his team-mates clubbed together to buy him a special something to celebrate him reaching the elite 100-cap club for his country,” Charlie Caroe reports or The Telegraph.
“As you can see it is not just your standard Apple product but rather a golden 32-gigabyte personalised version to mark the occasion,” Caroe reports. “Beckham… made his England debut in September 1996 against Moldova [and will likely] to add to his 100 caps following Capello’s post-match appraisal of his performance, and with just four men ahead of him there is a small possibility the Leytonstone-born footballer could surpass former goalkeeper Peter Shilton’s record of 125 England appearances if he is able to continue playing until the 2010 World Cup in South Africa as he desires.”
“In the meantime he can enjoy listening to his wife’s back catalogue on his £600 ipod – he certainly has enough storage space with 32 GB,” Caroe reports.
Full article, with larger photo of Becks’ new iPod, here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “MacVicta” for the heads up.]
OK, I call Who F-ing Cares
hopefully they dont kick him to the curve before 2010…
he still has the golden touch though
midas well keep going…
Beckham increasingly strikes me as a man who squandered his talents by listening to his wife and her advisers.
It’s a tragedy (albeit one of little importance) that the man didn’t win more in his club career after leaving Manchester Utd; a move which it could be argued was United’s manager becoming increasingly unimpressed by Beckham’s show-business lifestyle.
The sad thing is that neither man profited from the argument: Beckham is sadly no longer the player he once was and it has taken several years for Sir Alex Ferguson to rebalance Manchester Utd.’s team when combined with several other key retirements and departures.
I hope he doesn’t bend it.
Beckham. What an overrated piece of shit.
That bastard!
Yes, I’m jealous of who he gets to sleep with. 𝄐𝄐
Nice gift.
I wonder if the publicity of this will motivate other pricey gift givers to order up some. Perhaps the golden iPod/iPhone will replace the Mont Blanc pen as a reward for great performance in business.
@neomonkey
Well I sure ain’t, unless you’re referring to the maid or who ever.
This is retarded… Why the heck does anyone need to give Beckham an iPod when he’s got enough money to buy the whole team?
To feral:
NICE ! !
That’s an iPod Touch–iPhones have one long black band at the bottom (antanna) whilst the iPod Touch have the black squre where the iPhone’s camera is.
It’s not his LA Galaxy teammates buying the Touch, it’s his England National teammates. They make as much in salary as “goldenballs”, as the English Premier League salaries for English players is ridiculously high.
Beckham did alright at Real Madrid, leaving on a very high note. ManU sacrificed a player at the peak of his value and restocked for the future, buying Christiano Ronaldo, the best player in the world, now, and Wayne Rooney, amongst others. They have a core of a young team that can win titles for the next 5 years.
I think it worked out for both parties.
“Goldenballs” That would take tea bagging to a new plateau.
Note to MDN’s USA readers: Soccer is a game of great skill and a top-level national sport for virtually every country in the world. Apart from local soccer leagues, each country chooses its finest home players for a national team and these teams complete in continental and world championships. Billions of people worldwide tune in to watch these events on TV. The best players from all nationalities are sought by local soccer teams around the world and very often become huge stars in the country the play in.
Unfortunately, because soccer is such a top-level international competitive sport, it cannot guarantee the same country dominates and wins every tournament – therefore the USA probably will probably never have an interest in developing soccer at a local and national level – and prefer instead to stick to national sports with very few teams to compete with beyond its own borders – therefore ensuring the USA always wins.
MW ‘window’ (as in ‘on the world’).
Note to non-USA readers:
Soccer sucks
It’s not called soccer, it’s called football. The ones who call it soccer can’t play it right. They’re used to picking up the ball with their hands and running away from their opponents as fast as they can, or throwing it away before an opponent smashes them in anger. They do get to kick it sometimes, but mostly from the penalty position: smack in front of the posts and without a goalkeeper – often when they’ve run so far they’ve gone out of bounds. Even so, they miss sometimes.
Right on, Quad Core.
Soccer is the game European women invented so they would have something to do while their men cooked. Look it up. Besides, if his little girly teammates really appreciated his service they would have given him a Zune.
Your potential. Our passion.™
It was a gift from friends and team-mates for playing 100 times for his country you maroons!
Please list the baseball players or NBA giants, or football (you know, the American game that’s played with the hands) who have played 50 times for the USA. Oh sorry, the USA doesn’t play in any “world’ games, (except in soccer).
ZUNEBANG–Get stuffed.
@ron,
The Yanks play lots of “world” games, they just don’t invite any countries other than Canada to join in. That way they can always proclaim themselves “world champions”. The minute countries other than the US and Canada get involved they usually get their arses kicked. Just look at basketball.
MW: second, which is the best placing the US can hope to achieve in any sport involving more than one country other than Canada.
Beckham is an overpaid, overhyped, over-rated football player.
His wife is a talentless hanger-on who tried to force her “music” career down our throats.
If they both died in a plane crash though, I’d mourn..
For the loss of the pilot and the plane!
MDN Magic Word: “chance” as in “chance of never seeing any of the Beckhams again would be a fine thing”
No, I don’t like him…
@Steves Job
The Yanks occasionally participate in a “world” game called “War”… but only after carefully scrutinising of the competitor, to be certain they are guaranteed Z-League underdogs (with untrained, amateur players). Even then, the Yanks somehow always manage to end up getting their arses kicked!
If the USA can ever grow into a country that is ‘big-enough’ to compete in the real sport of soccer – the world might become a much more peaceful place.
Twenty Benson:
<i>If the USA can ever grow into a country that is ‘big-enough’ to compete in the real sport of soccer – the world might become a much more peaceful place.<i>
Agreed all round. I’m English and have lived in NYC for years… ‘soccer’ [orig. derived from Association Football] in the US is around the level of the League Championship [ie. 2nd division] in the UK or Serie B in Italy.
No disrespect to American football players, but I am surprised given the number of hispanics in this country, that they aren’t better.
By the way… check out Red Hook Ball Fields in Brooklyn during the summer to watch the equivalent of a mini South American football/soccer league every weekend. Sit under the trees and eat the amazing South American food available from vendors located all around the field too. It’s a great non-tourist venue close to Manhattan [across the harbour by water taxi]. Yummo.
HueyLong…
I live in NYC.
I’m FROM the USA.
I’ve got news for you… NYC is NOT the USA. It’s a separate entity… thank the Gods!
I never quite figured out WHY America has never taken to football… the international variety.
Then I figured that it’s because it’s TOO athletic! Look at baseball and American football… most of the time everyone stands around and scratches their balls. Literally. Neither are purely athletic. The only North American team sports that are purely athletic are basketball and hockey.
Wow, the ignorance of some of my fellow Americans just astounds me. What a bunch of arrogant pricks.
Football is an amazing game (and I am not talking about the one played by a bunch of thugged out, chest pounding, over-paid apes we call the NFL). To dismiss the REAL football out of hand the way some have is ignorant (and crass) at best.
While it may not be your cup of tea, your childish comments are unwarranted.