Former England captain David Beckham talked about how he lives in Germany during the World Cup, when he is about to end his career and that he will soon be awarded the title of knight.
Beckham spoke about this after the 1/8 finals match, when his captains did not have the prefix “ex”, and the England team had a chance to win the world championship. Below we provide the most interesting excerpts from this interview.
- How do you feel about the criticism that hit you almost after the first match?
- Thank you so much for your attention from the Russian media. In my opinion, this is the first interview I give to the representative of Russia ...
I did not understand similar remarks addressed to me. Why didn’t I please someone? Well, maybe in the first two matches I didn’t run very well, I didn’t open very much for the ball, but I did my own thing anyway ... Sorry, we scored five goals, four of which were from my serve, and I scored one myself. By the way, that goal to the Paraguayans ... He was considered an own goal ... But if that guy hadn’t touched the ball, it would have been my goal too ... Or did I plow badly with Ecuador?
A day after that match, I talked with the guys, with the coach ... You understand that in such interviews everything goes according to the Hamburg score, no offense and no matter what their faces ... I report to you that no one, not one person made me the slightest complaint ...
- How are you feeling (during the match of the eighth finals Beckham, having scored, as it turned out, the decisive goal, was replaced, but, not even reaching the side room, he stopped: he was literally turned inside out ...)?
- I feel fine ... Nausea was caused by heat, stuffiness and the unusual, to be honest, amount of work that I had to endure: after all, I had never run so much in Real Madrid or in the national team before, I didn’t move in search of the ball , or a partner, while keeping in mind his own exit to the shock position ... Sven caught the moment in time to change me ... Can you imagine what I would look like if I were turned right onto the lawn? ..
“How does your charming wife Victoria feel here in Germany?”
- Victoria had to worry ... She flew to Germany ahead of time ... The last month before the championship, Sven took us in his gloves and didn’t even let us go to the nearest bar ... Therefore, I talked with my wife and children exclusively by phone ... I only know that she flew, you will laugh, from Paraguay ... And then there was a strike, either of pilots, or of dispatchers, or of loaders ... In general, she ordered a charter, and the trip cost her something more than 100 thousand dollars. Plus, she rented an apartment in Munich, where I am leaving at any opportunity ...
“How do you spend time getting a few hours of rest?”
- I was the only one in England who allowed Sven to leave the national team’s camp, although at first some guys grumbled, especially Lampard and Rooney, but Terry tamed them ... Well, you see, you can dad three children to break free ... As far as I know, Ronaldo had the same problem , to whom the wife flew in with her young son ... So, Senor Carlos acted as wisely as our Swede: he lets the new scorer go to the family ...
And so, we walk, breathe air, although it is difficult in such heat, we sit in a cafe ... Just yesterday, during the break of the championship, we flew with Victoria to Frankfurt, and from there returned to Bavaria, but to the town of Fürth. We visited generally interesting, and especially for me, Jewish museums. There are now deployed exhibitions on the role of Jews in the history of German football. The name of one of them was a revelation to me: “Hit like Kissinger” ... It turns out that this former senior official in the US Presidential Administration was born, grew up in Germany and chased the ball here. I, as you know, this topic is very concerned. Although formally, and in fact, I, being a nee Jew who went to a cheder up to 12 years old and wore a bale, left Jewishness. In many respects it was influenced by the fact that I, the star of the youth team of the famous Tottenham Hotspur, was constantly teased for paice, the star of David on the chain instead of a cross and this very pile - the boys at this age are terribly evil ... I repent, but it happened ...
- How do you like the favorite teams of the championship?
- I will not be original: Brazil - number of times! Whatever the critics screamed ... Note: they scolded me, scolded Ronaldo, scolded Crespo, scolded Klose with Podolsky, scolded Raul, scolded Shevchenko, scolded Zidane ... And who started scoring when it was time for decisive matches? That's just the same ... Therefore, Brazil, Germany, Argentina, Italy and, of course, well, of course, we are England!
- How do you like the referees? What can you say about the Russian judge Valentina Ivanov?
- Ivanov sued strictly by the letter of the law ... The guys forgot that they play “Sokker”, and not American football ... By the way, they later recognized it ... In the sense that it was they who ruined the match, and not the judge ...
- How do you like the Ukrainian team?
- Ukraine is not my team. I don’t understand what these guys are playing ... I know Shevchenko ... Unique! And where is its uniqueness? And so: beat-and-run ... So teams played in the 80s of the last century, which, apart from excellent physical training, had nothing to show ... But I won’t be surprised if Ukraine passes Italy: it will stay on the defensive, will lay its bones, and then Sheva score, or Voronin, or again help out Shovkovsky ...
- Do you think that Guus Hiddink will be able to make at least the same team out of the Russian team as
Australia national team?
- No Hiddink will help you if you do not help yourself ... I knew only one great football player from Russia ... Oh, it's hard to pronounce his name ... Yes, here, Andrew Kanchelskis ...
I also know Karpin and Mostovoy ... Oh yes, they were quoted in Spain ... So why didn’t your team show anything to them? A coach, even one like Hiddink, who can do everything out of nothing, in a situation where he simply does not have normal guys, will also do nothing ... But in general, it's hard for me to judge this ... I never played with yours ...
- How and when are you going to finish your career?
- Victoria and I have already decided ... I am playing out two more seasons for Real Madrid and ... we are leaving for the States. No, do not relax, sunbathe, but still play. Yes, in the MLS there. Well, they didn’t consider it shameful to play Pele and Tostao, Zico and Kareka, Cruyff and Neskens, Müller and our very current Kaiser owner Franz Beckenbauer ... than, excuse me, sir (I give a secret: I will be awarded a knight , I will become the second after the great Prime Minister of England, Disraeli Jew with such a title) Beckham worse than these great football players? Or didn’t deserve it?