David Beckham is a soccer player.
Association football , more commonly known as football or soccer , is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball . David Robert Joseph Beckham , ( [ ˈbɛkəm ] born 2 May 1975 ) is an English former professional footballer . Beckham 's professional club career began with Manchester United , where he made his first-team debut in 1992 aged 17 .