{"id":8632,"date":"2013-05-16T20:36:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T15:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=8632"},"modified":"2013-05-16T20:36:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T15:36:43","slug":"world-exclusive-david-beckham-retires-from-football-england-legend-calls-it-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=8632","title":{"rendered":"WORLD EXCLUSIVE: David Beckham retires from football &#8211; England legend calls it a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/b9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8630\" alt=\"b9\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/b9.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/b9.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/b9-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/b9-422x300.jpg 422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>David Beckham has retired from football, bringing an end to a glittering career on the field.<\/p>\n<p>Since his debut for Manchester United two decades ago, the 38-year-old has emerged as arguably the most iconic sportsman of his generation, captaining his country, collecting 115 caps, and celebrated as a champion in four different countries &#8211; the only British footballer in history to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the offer of an extended one-year deal at Paris Saint-German, the 38-year-old has played his last game, bowing out on a high after helping Carlo Ancelotti&#8217;s side win the French title for the first time in 19 years.<\/p>\n<p>When approached for comment by<i> Sportsmail<\/i>, Beckham&#8217;s representative was today unavailable.<\/p>\n<p>The trailblazing midfielder &#8211;\u00a0 who played for some of the biggest clubs in the world such as Manchester United, Real Madrid, AC Milan and Los Angeles Galaxy &#8211; is now set to continue his ambassadorial duties with a variety of organisations, which include Sky Sports, adidas, Unicef and promoting football in China.<\/p>\n<p>Having relocated from LA in January, Beckham is expected to set up a permanent base in London with his wife Victoria and children, Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz and Harper.<\/p>\n<p>His vast fortune of an estimated \u00a3165million comfortably makes him the richest athlete ever in British sport, with a host of lucrative sponsorship deals and salary payments over the last decade amassing his wealth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Beckham has retired from football, bringing an end to a glittering career on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,224,155,158,137],"tags":[865],"class_list":["post-8632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","category-news","category-other-countries","category-sport","category-world","tag-david-beckham","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}