David Beckham on Spice Girls Reuniting for Victoria’s 50th, Messi Mania in USA & Being a Neat Freak

Our first guest tonight is one of the most famous athletes in the world, who is not only responsible for bringing Messi to this country, but also brought the Spice Girls Back Together. His very entertaining documentary series Beckham is on Netflix. Now please welcome David Beckham. This is a secret to your beauty, you put honey on your face, it's your own honey, right, it's our own honey, yeah, you know what we could have used on you today because I don't know if you heard about this, but show it. uh we have a little video where we had a swarm of bees living under an umbrella outside.

Do you know any of those guys? Fortunately not, but I'm glad to take them back to London. Yeah, I'm sure he would be great on the plane. um, you're yours. for people who don't follow uh what we call soccer, you call soccer, sometimes we meet in the middle, you own the Miami soccer club, you're one of the owners of how many owners are there, mainly you , there are three of us, it's me and then two brothers, Jorge M and José M, so it's just the three of us, Jorge and José, who own this team and it has become more successful than you thought it was going to be.

I always hoped it would be this successful and obviously it would bring someone along. Like Leo, uh, help, obviously, that was always the plan, but you never know, are you aware of how popular he is? I know that in Miami, obviously, there are a lot of people there, but like my son, who is seven years old, he has never seen one. moment of football that he has, he couldn't choose Messi from a lineup, but he has all the clothes, the pink shirt, the cleats, everything and he is like a crazy mess, although I don't know. Somehow it happened, I don't know what happened, it's just the effect Leo has on the game and the world, you know, one of the reasons we wanted to bring him to America was to inspire the Next Generation, that was my plan, you know?

Obviously I wanted to bring him in because of the player that he is and the person that he is. You know, I've played against him on numerous occasions, actually twice, fortunately, fortunately, but I've been a fan of him and watched him for many years and always. I had a plan to bring, in my opinion, the best player to ever play the game, to our team and luckily it happened. In your opinion, yes, is he the best player to ever play? I think everyone has their own opinions. but for me personally, well yours has to mean more than others, well yes you know there are many great players who have played over the years but in my opinion he is the perfect player and how do you do you convince him to come out?

Did you say he looks at how well everything worked out for me? Well, I could really go to him and with him with obviously my experience of moving to the United States and entering a league that really at that time was not established like it is now. I know there were only 13 teams in the league, now there's almost 30 and he's in a different position than he was back then when I first came, but you know he always loved Miami. He always loved the idea of ​​the project of, you know, bringing the The game is even bigger in this country and when you bring someone like that to the United States, people realize, yeah, well, we sure noticed when you showed up. , it's been very special, yeah, your wife, um, most people I guess know is Victoria, who's from the SK that you had. a uh, I mentioned in your intro that she had a birthday party and you put this together big, yeah, I put it together right, I think we have a video here of what happened at the birthday party, how long has it been since they ? sang together, it's actually been like 12 years since they attended the Olympics in the UK, but 15 in 15 years since they were on stage together, so obviously I had them all there that night and I didn't expect them all They will get up. scenario, but I had a whole video planned where my kids and I recreated mom's video, oh really, my son, who plays guitar and sings, had a song and mom sang and then suddenly all the

girls

got up and I was.

I like her and I'm her biggest fan, you know, I tend not to say that to my wife because you know, I tend to tell her that I liked her when she was up there, but she was a Spice Girl, so you know, yeah, I love that about her. I'm sure she loved the fact that you were on a team too, right, I did, yeah, yeah, yeah, so she was a fan. I loved your documentary. I mean, it was so good. If you haven't seen it, it's like I'm going to. To be honest, I hardly have any interest in football, I mean, really, but I thought you two and your story is amazing and your chemistry and how much fun you guys are together was really lovely to watch, you got us so hooked.

Yeah, well, you know we've been together for 27 years in July. You know we've been, we've been, uh, we've been married, we've been married for 25, so it's our 25th wedding anniversary in July. but with the documentary, you know, people wanted me to do it a long time ago, you know, when I retired and I wasn't really ready to look back, I was ready to jump into something else in the business and with Miami, but then I had a plan for 7 years from now and said it was good for the 10th anniversary of my retirement. I want to do the documentary and that was really the plan but then when we did it you know it was just amazing you know some of the footage where you're actually one of your main cameramen is your dad I mean because he shot so many videos of yours, we're going to show a little bit of that in a second, but what happened when you saw it?

I saw it all for the first time. How did it impact you? I plan to watch it in the morning, an early morning, just me on a big screen and you know how to write notes because it was so early. early edit when I saw it that morning I didn't really like it, I didn't enjoy watching it, so I planned to let my wife see it for the first time at the premiere, but obviously I had to change that. and having her watch it that night with me and we literally sat in bed with an iPad and watched two hours of rough editing and we got to the end and we looked at each other and we were so excited.

It was like we laughed, we cried, we were tired because we've done so many things in those 27 years, you know, and that was really the moment I fell in love with the documentary because I knew she loved it and that meant more. for me and then you did it and we learned one of the things we learn in the documentary is that you're a need

freak

to an extreme, like a real extreme, yeah, I know, after you're in bed watching this. you like it okay now let's go make the bed I yeah I'm I'm a little bit OCD I'm a little bit more than a little bit a little bit like are you looking around right now and wanting to Clean things up here a little bit, I mean the carpet could been sucked in a little bit, straight up, um, but in all honesty, you know that's just how I am.

Victoria always jokes because when we are with our friends. dinner or drinks, you know, I start turning off the lights and cleaning the candles and you know, I light the wick of the candle, I do it, I do it, oh Madness, it's not just the wick, it's the outside of the glass too, so I know which is not just the people of Wicks. David Beckham is here, his Netflix documentary on Netflix called Beckham, we'll come right back to when my dad used to make me do corner after corner, after corner, after corner and put it in exactly the same place he wanted, and if I did it, He would would kill, he used to tell me that it's moments like corner kicks at the end of the game that can create history.

This is his moment. Enter Michael. It is comfortable for your punt with a 30-second shot. That's David Beckham, the documentary about him. his name is Beckham it's on Netflix, that's the guy, your dad, uh, and for those who haven't seen it, he recorded every one of your games and he's a little manic, yeah, I mean, I personally wouldn't call him manic. um, but uh, yeah, he was pretty obsessed with me becoming a footballer, so yeah, he recorded everything, every newspaper cut everything and my mom was the same mom was exactly the same mom it seemed at least in the documentary it seemed like a little as perhaps she wanted. you, your dad, so you can relax a little, well, she's a protective mother, yeah, you know, she, she, she took it out on a journalist one time when she stayed in a hotel and there was a journalist who kept writing things They really weren't nice. about me and about my game and she found out which room he was in so she put every dinner, every drink in her room and the protective well that you went through, I mean I felt so sorry for you in parts of the documentary .

I know people say, "He's a millionaire, he's married to one of the Spice Girls, he's incredibly handsome and we shouldn't feel sorry for him, but I did feel sorry for you, well, you know, I think one of the reasons why that you know one of To be honest, the things that came out of the documentary are that in the United States I think people obviously knew that I came to the Galaxy, they knew my career, but what they didn't know was that and what happened throughout of my career I think that surprised a lot of people and you also know even in the UK during that time it was difficult and you saw that it was difficult, but recently we were in a pub in London and I went out and went on the windscreen of my car was. an unnamed note, we're just really sorry for the way we treated each other and it was like that, so I like that signed everyone signed everyone you talk to, like Travis Kelsey, and you're like, hey man, this is what you have to wait, I think he can handle it, you think he can handle it, you know, we know Taylor can definitely handle it, one of the things your dad did was he would give you and I think we have a picture, he would give you. your Guinness and raw eggs to bulk up And how old are you here?

I think I'm maybe 11 there now. You know in the United States they would arrest him for this, yeah well the reason behind that was my hero like The boy was a player called Brian Robson, he used to play for the Manchester United team and also for England so he was my hero and I read his book when I was a little boy and he was very small and skinny as a boy. kid and what he did he drank Guinness and raw eggs um and I got the idea so I said to my dad can I do it?

And you see, that's what happens when you drink Guinness at 11 and get drunk, no, no. It was just like I'd just have half a glass, okay, and then, you know, a few raw eggs. I know it's very different. That is one of the big differences between our countries. That doesn't fly here at all. Yes, me, did you see? Tom Brady's roast, uh, I made it the other night, would you ever make something like that? Because no, no, absolutely. You know, the whole concept is you know it's pretty funny, it was a lot of fun, yeah, but you know I know Tom well and I have to admit I texted him just to check that he was okay, oh you did, uh, yeah .

I said, are you okay? Is it okay? It's more than okay, but yeah, it was hard to watch, so next year we won't do it. I see you roasted no not good definitely no definitely not good it's great to see you I highly recommend the documentary it's called Beckham it's on Netflix now Mr. David Beckham we'll all be back with Christmas ready