Football is undoubtedly a sport that moves hearts and inspires in many ways and David Beckham, one of the greatest icons ever seen, is no exception. At least that’s how he saw it and lived a few years ago, a Colombian father who decided to pay tribute to the former English soccer player, naming his son in the same way without knowing that he would be carried away by his name.
19 years later, a Colombian striker named Beckham David Castro is causing a sensation in his country’s first division football with Millonarios FC, whom he has led to the final of his tournament after scoring an important goal in the semifinals that They were held this Wednesday.
Precisely the young Colombian has told the anecdote about how and why they chose his name, it is due to how big a fan his father was of the former British player while he was a Real Madrid player, a team in which he was considered one of the mythical ‘Galacticos’ ‘.
“It’s because my dad was a big fan of Real Madrid when Beckham was playing at the time. Beckham David named me so as not to give myself exactly the same name, “he commented on the 19-year-old striker in an interview.
David Beckham is one of the characters who have had the most impact in football, not only because of his time as a player where he also shone for Manchester United and the Los Angeles Galaxy of the MLS with his impeccable free-kick goals, but also because of what he it came later when he became a businessman without moving away from this sport.
An example of this is the fact that he was part of the first expansion in MLS by founding and becoming president of Inter Miami, a team whose fan base is mainly Latino and, although he has not been able to achieve great things so far, he works for achieve them in the near future, including the utopian signing of Leo Messi.
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