Profile:
David Robert Joseph Beckham.
Born: May 2 1975 in Leytonstone, London.
Star sign: Taurus.
Parents: Ted, a gas engineer, and Sandra, a hairdresser at a retirement home.
Training: Aged 12, won a Bobby Charlton Soccer Skills award. Represented Essex schools as a teenager. Had trials with Leyton Orient. Attended Tottenham Hotspur's school. Signed as trainee for Manchester United on July 8, 1991.
Lives: Mansion in Hertfordshire.
Love life: Married Posh Spice, Victoria Adams, on July 4 1999 at Luttrelstown Castle, Dublin, Ireland.
Child: Brooklyn Joseph Beckham, (Portland Hospital, London, on March 3 1999).
Tattoos and ornamentation: 'Brooklyn' tattooed on his lower back and on his football boots. Has a wingless guardian angle tattooed on his back. Sports a £10,000 emerald earring, a 25th birthday present from Victoria.
Trivia: A statue of Beckham covered in gold leaf has been placed at the foot of the main Buddha image in Bangkok's Pariwas Temple alongside about 100 other statues of minor deities
