Beckham On Life After Football
Summary
TLDRTwo months after retiring from football, David Beckham continues to be deeply involved in sports. Visiting a school in Bedford, Beckham, as a Sky Sports ambassador, inspires children by sharing his journey and the importance of sports and mentorship. He emphasizes the value of competitiveness and staying active, not just for aspiring athletes but for all children. Beckham also discusses his family's active lifestyle and his future plans, including potential ownership of a Major League Soccer club, while maintaining strong ties to both London and Los Angeles.
Takeaways
- π David Beckham remains an active figure in sports even after retiring, embodying the spirit of continuous involvement in physical activities.
- π Beckham's visit to a school in Bedford highlights the transformative power of sports in children's lives and his commitment to inspiring the next generation.
- π€ He is involved with Sky Sports' 'Living for Sports' program, aiming to provide mentorship to young athletes and contribute to their development.
- π¦ Beckham emphasizes the importance of having role models and mentors in sports, drawing from his own experience looking up to figures like Brian Robson.
- π He sees the value in competitive sports for children, not just for the sake of winning but to instill a sense of resilience and determination.
- π¨βπ§βπ¦ As a father, Beckham encourages his children to be active and pursue sports, valuing health and fitness over specific athletic achievements.
- π He envisions a balanced life for his children, where they can enjoy sports without the pressure of following in his footsteps as a footballer.
- πͺ Beckham acknowledges the need for rest and a change in exercise routine post-retirement, while still advocating for the importance of staying fit.
- π He reflects on the positive impact of the Olympics and the legacy it has left, showing pride in the UK's ability to carry forward the spirit of such events.
- π There are rumors about Beckham potentially owning a Major League Soccer club, which he expresses interest in as a way to give back to the sport and community.
- π¬ Beckham dismisses rumors of acting in a Bond film, stating he is better suited to stick to sports and coaching, rather than pursuing a career in punditry or acting.
Q & A
What is David Beckham's current involvement with sports after retiring from football?
-David Beckham remains one of the most recognizable sportsmen in the world and is involved with Sky Sports' 'Living for Sports' program, acting as a mentor and role model for young children.
Why did David Beckham want to participate in the 'Living for Sports' program?
-He wanted to give back to the community and help young people by being a mentor, as he had looked up to figures like Brian Robson during his childhood.
How does David Beckham feel about the impact of sports on young people's lives?
-He believes that sports can transform lives and is proud to contribute to the future of the country by helping to shape future sporting heroes.
What does David Beckham think about the importance of competitiveness in children's lives?
-He thinks competitiveness is important but also emphasizes the importance of having a heart and supporting children even if they are not the best in sports.
How has David Beckham's exercise routine changed since his retirement?
-After retiring, he needed time to let his body rest from the injuries he sustained during his professional football career. He gradually got back into working out and stays active with his four children.
What is David Beckham's approach to encouraging his children to be active?
-He has instilled the importance of staying fit and healthy into his children, encouraging them to play outside and participate in various sports.
What does David Beckham think about the potential for his children to follow in his footsteps as a football player?
-He would love for one of his children to become a football player, but his primary wish is for them to be happy, healthy, and fit.
What advice does David Beckham have for new parents William and Kate regarding their upcoming royal birth?
-He believes they have many mentors and parents around them and will be amazing parents due to their love for children.
How does David Beckham view the legacy of the London Olympics, and what is his role in it?
-He sees the legacy of the Olympics as enduring and believes that the UK is known for continuing the legacy of major sports events, with him being a part of it as an ambassador.
What are David Beckham's future plans, particularly regarding the rumors about him owning a Major League Soccer Club or becoming an actor?
-He is genuinely interested in potentially owning a football club in America as it aligns with his commitment to the sport there. The rumors about him becoming an actor, particularly as the next Bond, are not true.
Where does David Beckham consider home, and how does he divide his time between different locations?
-London will always be his home, but he also spends time in America and LA, as they have homes in both places and have had positive experiences living there.
Outlines
π David Beckham's Continued Sports Involvement
In this paragraph, retired footballer David Beckham discusses his ongoing connection with sports and his role as an ambassador for Sky Sports' 'Living for Sports' program. He shares his motivation for participating, highlighting the importance of mentorship in his own life and the desire to provide the same opportunity for young athletes. Beckham emphasizes the impact of sports on young lives and the value of making sacrifices for success, advocating for the reintroduction of competitive sports in schools to foster future athletes.
π¨βπ§βπ¦ Beckham's Family Life and Views on Sportsmanship
This paragraph delves into David Beckham's personal life, focusing on his family's active lifestyle and his approach to encouraging his children to engage in sports and maintain a healthy lifestyle. He talks about the importance of enjoying sports regardless of one's skill level and the value of self-belief. Beckham also shares anecdotes from his own experience as a professional athlete, including adjusting his exercise routine post-retirement and the influence of his wife Victoria's fitness routine on his family.
π Reflections on British Sports Success and Future Endeavors
In the final paragraph, Beckham reflects on recent British sports achievements, such as the Lions' victory and Andy Murray's Wimbledon win, expressing optimism for a successful British sporting summer. He discusses the legacy of the Olympics and his role as an ambassador, expressing confidence in the lasting impact of the event. Beckham also addresses rumors about his future, including potential ownership of a Major League Soccer Club and dismisses speculations about a career in punditry or acting, emphasizing his commitment to sports and coaching.
Mindmap
Keywords
π‘Retirement
π‘Sports Ambassador
π‘Mentor
π‘Legacy
π‘Competitiveness
π‘Sacrifice
π‘Role Model
π‘Physical Fitness
π‘Parenting
π‘Success
π‘Diversity in Sports
Highlights
David Beckham remains an influential figure in sports even after retiring from football.
Beckham visits a school in Bedford to promote the Sky Sports 'Living for Sports' program.
He discusses the importance of having a mentor in sports and life, citing his admiration for Brian Robson.
Beckham emphasizes the value of sports in transforming lives and the role of mentors like Sir Chris Hoy and Jess Ennis.
He shares his pride in his career and his desire to give back, particularly to future sporting heroes.
Beckham talks about the importance of making sacrifices for success and the role of competitiveness in children's lives.
He believes that competitive sports are crucial for developing future elite athletes.
Beckham stresses the significance of maintaining a balance between competitiveness and empathy in sports.
He reflects on his own exercise routine post-retirement and the importance of staying fit and healthy.
Beckham discusses encouraging his children to be active and the importance of a healthy lifestyle.
He expresses his hopes for his children to be happy, healthy, and fit, regardless of their career paths.
Beckham shares his thoughts on the Royal birth and his advice for new parents William and Kate.
He comments on the success of British sports, including the Lions' victory and Andy Murray's Wimbledon win.
Beckham discusses the legacy of the Olympics and his role as an ambassador for its continuation.
He addresses rumors about his future, including owning an MLS club and his interest in coaching over punditry.
Beckham confirms that London will always be home, but he also values the time spent in LA and America.
Transcripts
two months after retiring from football
sports is still a big part of David
Beckham's life he remains one of the
most recognizable Sportsmen in the world
and one group of school children are
about to get a big surprise we have an
extra special guest coming to join us
for our session I'd like to welcome Sky
ambasador David Beckham David
Beckham
David was visiting a school in Bedford
where sport has transformed
lives after proving he's still as active
as ever we spoke about his latest
Mission first of all how do we introduce
you is it former footballer Ambassador
model father Mr Posh Spice what do you
prefer um David's good pretty good I've
had the retired football quite a few
times in the last few weeks so uh D just
David's good just done with that one now
you're here today as part of Sky Sports
living for sports program tell us about
that and why you wanted to get involved
I wanted to get involved because
obviously I've um gained so much from
being in a sport from being in football
um and when I was 8 n years old you know
I was always looking for a mentor you
know a mentor in kind of in sport in
life you know I had my parents but you
know I wanted someone else to look up to
and obviously myself being a Manchester
United fan you know Brian Robson for me
was someone that I looked up to someone
that achieved uh so much in in you know
his sport I wanted to achieve the same
thing you know I wanted to wear the same
jerseys as him I wanted to Captain
England I wanted to represent England um
and I think what sky have created here
is something where you know young kids
are able to look up to you know athletes
like sir Chris Hoy like Jess Andis you
know like other athletes that are
involved in this initiative um and they
can be their mentors and that's the
special thing and that's why I you know
personally wanted to be involved and how
much of a difference can it make to
Young people's lives getting involved
with sports you know it's something that
I'm very proud of what I've done in my
career and obviously to now go on to
something like this where I'm kind of
giving back in a way that is helping the
future of you know future of our country
or future you know sporting Heroes
that's it's something special for me
it's all right to be different you know
it's all right to make sacrifices like I
said before I made I made sacrifices
when I was your age and some of my
friends wanted to go and hang out down
the street on the shop corner you know
uh skateboard parks you know and there's
nothing wrong with going to skateboard
park but if you want to want to be
successful and if you want to do certain
things and want to be c a certain person
then there are sacrifices that you make
and do you think enough is being done at
Schools they're talking now about
bringing back competitive sport how
important do you think that would be to
encourage the elite Sports men and women
of the
future for me personally I think you
know uh competitiveness is really
important in in children's lives um in
in many ways um I think it has to be
fair of course you know because uh you
know a couple of my sons go to a school
that is very competitive but in a way
that um also helps the children that are
not winning the races are not winning
the football you know they're helping
them in many other ways so I think you
know what what children are doing
nowadays you know things have to be
competitive you know it's important for
the future of you know the sport going
forward I think you know because when
you get to a certain point in your life
as a child you know 16 17 it really
becomes competitive and if you haven't
learned that from a young age um I I
think that you know that could affect
the way children are you know when they
go into different sports but like I said
it's also important that if they're not
the best football players if they're not
the best tennis players that doesn't
mean to say they're not going to have a
future in that game you know they might
go on to be a coach you know some of the
best footballing managers in the world
are you know not ex footballers you know
and they've not kicked the ball before
in in their life so you know that says a
lot I think that's what's important to
to have that competitiveness but also
have a heart you know that actually puts
their arm around a kid and says just
because you've not won a race it doesn't
mean that you're not good at that Sport
and it doesn't mean that you can't enjoy
that sport if you enjoy it it doesn't
matter it doesn't matter if you're the
best at it that's not the most important
thing in the world you know if you enjoy
doing a sport you do it I was listening
to a conversation of a group of young
kids that were waiting to do their
events and I heard one of the boys turn
around and say I might go and do the
javelin and one of his friends turn
around to him and say why would you go
and do that that's
embarrassing and something like that I
actually turned around to the little boy
and said go and do the javelin if you
want to do the javelin it's not about
it's about having your own opinion it's
about believing in yourself and you know
that's part of being successful has your
exercise routine changed then since you
retired you know how have things like
that changed well I think obviously I've
had 22 years in professional football so
I needed time to kind of uh let my body
rest because I've had a couple of bad
injuries over the last three or four
years and um you know I I kind of left
working out alone for a few weeks and
then I kind of slowly got back into it
but obviously having four children
you're constantly running around and
doing stuff anyway and I've been busy
with other stuff but I think it's so
important for any person to stay fit and
healthy just for health reasons more
than anything and how active are your
children then how do you encourage them
to you know get do more activities well
as a parent I've always been obviously a
sportsman kind of that has always been
outside keeping active keeping fit and
I've kind of embeded that into my
children uh I think it's so important
that parents do that because I think
it's so important in not just to be a
sportsman sportswoman I think it's
important in life you know for for kids
to stay healthy for kids to stay fit to
eat the right things to drink the right
things and I think that's what's so
important it's not just about about you
know becoming a great Sportsman it's
about you know staying healthy in life
and I have this image of you all kind of
in the back Garden having a kick around
with Victoria there as well is that what
happens she's up at 6:30 every morning
running is she yeah so she's very fit
start and Harper sits there and watches
her so she's learning but um no the boys
are always out they're always doing some
kind of sport and it's not you know it
doesn't have to be football just because
dad's a football player or a retired
football player um doesn't mean that
they'll naturally go into that game you
know maybe they will if they do then
great but you know I just want them to
be outside I want them to be outside
playing instead of sitting and watching
TV and you know and and doing all that
kind of stuff because there are you know
we spoke about it with the kids there's
so many distractions out there and it's
about you know that focus and when
children have had focus and got that
Focus you know there's they they become
so determined do you secretly hope
though that one of them will follow in
your footsteps of course of course I do
you know i' I'd love one of them to be a
football player it might end up being
Harper she might go into it I mean we
shouldn't show Victoria this but um I
think you know if one of the boys go on
to to play football then then great but
um I I I just want them to be happy I
want them to be healthy and I want them
to be fit and simple as that and talking
about children I have to ask you we have
the Royal birth coming up very
shortly uh what advice would you give to
William and Kate I know your friends
what advice would you give them because
you're a bit of an expert now they're
going to be firsttime parents uh I don't
think they need my my advice I think
they've got so many
amazing uh mentors and you know parents
around them you know I think that's and
grandparents you know I think they'll
learn from them and um I think William
and I think Kate's going to be they're
going to be amazing parents because
they're so loving towards children you
see the way they are and you know
obviously I've I've seen more of William
than I have of Kate but I think you know
William has been in all of our lives for
for so many years and we've seen him
grow from that from that young boy into
an unbelievable gentleman and I think
that's that's an amazing quality that he
shows and I think you know that as a
father is is so important and any advice
on baby names for them in that case cuz
I know you know you went for different
things well they yeah that's a good bad
you think they should go for David I
think they should go for David if a boy
now we've just had the Lions win we've
had Andy Murray winning Wimbledon we've
got the ashes on as well are you hoping
it's going to be another Great British
sporting summer um already has been um
you know I think that uh you know in the
last week as has been incredible I was
in Singapore and I was lucky enough to
be sat next to an Australian guy that uh
wasn't very happy at the meal I must
admit he was uh very down about the uh
about the Lions but um you know I packed
him on the back a few times and just
mentioned uh the result but it's so
amazing for us to have you know so much
success I think obviously with the Lions
it's it's incredible to for for children
to watch the the success that we've had
um and then obviously with
you know after after the Olympics last
year and after obviously what happened
at wimon last year you know I
think everyone really was so behind him
this time um obviously they was behind
him last time but I think what he went
through and his speech that I was in the
crowd after that and it was kind of you
know it was heart really got to everyone
I think to perform like he did in that
heat with that pressure you know playing
playing at home I know what it's like as
an England player to play in front of
our own fans it's it's one of the best
feelings but it's also there's a certain
amount of pressure I think you know Andy
showed so many times throughout the
whole competition you know how tough he
is mentally and and physically of course
and it's a proud moment for everyone and
can you believe it is nearly a year now
since you markk the start of the
Olympics that speedboat moment down the
T but is there a worry that the Legacy
hasn't lived up to expectation you're an
ambassador for it you're a really big
part in all of it how do you feel about
that I think the legacy of the Olympics
will always be there I don't think that
anyone can question that because I think
that our country do things in a way
where we're very famous for how we bring
Sportsmen through and how we continue
the Legacy uh of a big competition and I
think the way we ran that Olympics the
way we was kind of involved in for me
one of the most successful Olympics uh
that there has been uh you know I
obviously haven't been to all of them
but um I've seen many of them and and to
be part of this one in in our own
country in part of London where I grew
up you know that was very special um and
like I said we will keep that Legacy
going because you know it's what we do
challenges are good uh challenges always
bring the best out in people it shows
aside of you that um sometimes you've
not seen before or other people have not
seen before so challenges for me uh are
really important in life and finally
what is next for you now there's talk
about you maybe owning a Major League
Soccer Club there's talk about you you
know being a pundit or you going to
continue the modeling or even these
acting rumors that we might see you in
bond what apparently so no that was just
another one of these Golden Balls moment
that Victoria kind of threw out there
and it kind of stuck so apparently I'm
uh going to be the next Bond cing to my
wife but uh no that's not true um I've
obviously had a few offers from
different people regarding um movies
over the years and you know I think I'm
better sticking to the sport that I
actually know punditry I think I'm going
to leave that to Gary you know I'm not
going to get involved in that because
he's so good at it and he's always been
great at talking so I think think I'll
leave that to him um but the MLS uh
football club is something that I'm
obviously very involved in because I
have the option to to own a club in uh
in America and when I moved there I I
committed to the league and I committed
to the sport in that country and making
it bigger um and if is if this is the
way that I can give back in that sense
then uh to own a franchise to own a team
would be very special and and something
that you know I'm really interested in
I'm not interested in being a manager I
love coaching kids I love being involved
in days like today with the kids but um
being an owner is something that I'm a
lot more interested in than anything
else and are you back here in England so
is this where you're planning to call
home from now on um London will always
be our home you know that's uh never
going to change but you know we've uh
we've got a home in La still um we
regard that as as a place where we had
such an amazing time living there and
the American people kind of welcomed
them welcomed us like one of their own
and that was that was very special so
we're spending a bit of time in London
we're also spending a bit of time in in
America so um we're kind of jumping from
place to place okay well David Beckham
thank you very much for talking to us
here on Sky News thank you
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