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By the early 2000s, perhaps no soccer player was as widely known as David Beckham.
In a blockbuster announcement on January 11, 2007, Beckham announced that he
would be leaving Real Madrid when the season ended to play with the Galaxy. He
had burst onto the world soccer scene 11 years earlier when his curving blast from just
inside his own side of the field blew past the hapless, flailing goalkeeper into the net. In
the following years, he became an international superstar.The 2002 film
Bend It Like
Beckham
attracted mostly positive reviews and helped cement his reputation.The movie
even turned out to be a family affair. Beckham made cameo appearances in archive
David Beckham brought worldwide attention to the LA Galaxy when he signed with the team.
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