2) Aged 11, Manchester United fan Beckham won a skills competition at a Bobby Charlton Academy summer soccer school, with the prize taking him on a two-week trip to Barcelona to experience the Catalan club's facilities.
4) Beckham's first two sons Brooklyn and Romeo both have Sir Elton John as a godfather and Elizabeth Hurley as a godmother.
6) Beckham said in 2006 that he suffered from obsessive compulsive disorder, with excessive tidiness seeing him arranging "everything in a straight line or...in pairs".