Just a bit more about David Beckham, the docu

Everyone is talking about the new Netflix hit Beckham, and so am I. That affair with Rebecca Loos interested me the least of all. I understood that poor boy quite well. Just sold to Madrid, being catapulted to a country whose language and culture you don't know, Victoria only being with you on weekends, a young family, and then a PA who knows the country and is your support and stay...

I especially found his love for football so beautiful. Matches that unfolded like novels with winning goals in the last three minutes and fans who put him on the bench for almost a year only to suddenly support him en masse with the song ‘One David Beckham, there’s only one David Beckham’.

The most beautiful sequence for me is the chapter on Diego Simeone. He is the Argentine player who made a dive that got Beckham a red card. After that, England lost (because they had to continue the match with ten men), and everyone blamed David Beckham. For almost a year, he was criticized everywhere. In the press, on the field, on the street. O-ver-all. When he was kicked or tackled by someone, the supporters of his own club cheered so loudly that you would think they had scored.

During the quarterfinals of the Champions League between Manchester United and Inter Milan at Old Trafford stadium, something changes. During the match, the supporters suddenly stand behind Beckham. They sing, they cheer, and David's game changes, and suddenly they win. At the end of the match, Simeone, the reason Beckham had a pitch-black year, wants to swap shirts. Beckham does it. ‘And?’ asks the documentary interviewer to David Beckham. ‘Did you throw darts at it later?’ ‘No.’ David smiles. ‘I frame this.’
And that, that framed shirt of your tormentor, testifies to the greatness of Beckham and is for me the reason why you must see this documentary.