Sports celebrity and merchandising magnet David Beckham, his Hollywood-enamored Spice Girl wife by his side, is headed to Los Angeles with a new, five-year, $250 million soccer deal that CAA helped to negotiate.
Beckham -- yes, as in Bend It Like Beckham -- and his wife, Victoria, aka Posh Spice, are daily tabloid fodder in England and many other soccer-crazed countries, including Spain, where he currently toils for the Real Madrid squad. He will continue to play there through June before joining Major League Soccer's Los Angeles Galaxy later in the summer.
But he is no mere soccer player.
Beckham is managed by Simon Fuller, creator of American Idol progenitor Pop Idol and The Spice Girls. And his ability to sell products of all sorts -- including, of course, zillions of replica soccer jerseys -- is so legend as to prompt many in the sports media to suggest it was actually Beckham's marketing magnetism that moved Madrid to pay him $41 million in transfer fees to acquire his services from England's Manchester United in 2003.
Beckham, a globe-trotting socialite whose Hollywood pals include Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, already has sparked a surge in Galaxy ticket sales even though he likely won't join the team until four months after the April Start of the MLS season.
Beckham -- yes, as in Bend It Like Beckham -- and his wife, Victoria, aka Posh Spice, are daily tabloid fodder in England and many other soccer-crazed countries, including Spain, where he currently toils for the Real Madrid squad. He will continue to play there through June before joining Major League Soccer's Los Angeles Galaxy later in the summer.
But he is no mere soccer player.
Beckham is managed by Simon Fuller, creator of American Idol progenitor Pop Idol and The Spice Girls. And his ability to sell products of all sorts -- including, of course, zillions of replica soccer jerseys -- is so legend as to prompt many in the sports media to suggest it was actually Beckham's marketing magnetism that moved Madrid to pay him $41 million in transfer fees to acquire his services from England's Manchester United in 2003.
Beckham, a globe-trotting socialite whose Hollywood pals include Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, already has sparked a surge in Galaxy ticket sales even though he likely won't join the team until four months after the April Start of the MLS season.
- 1/18/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sports celebrity and merchandising magnet David Beckham, his Hollywood-enamored Spice Girl wife by his side, is headed to Los Angeles with a new, five-year, $250 million soccer deal that CAA helped to negotiate.
Beckham -- yes, as in "Bend It Like Beckham" -- and his wife, Victoria, aka Posh Spice, are daily tabloid fodder in England and many other soccer-crazed countries, including Spain, where he currently toils for the Real Madrid squad. He will continue to play there through June before joining Major League Soccer's Los Angeles Galaxy later in the summer.
But he is no mere soccer player.
Beckham is managed by Simon Fuller, creator of "American Idol" progenitor "Pop Idol" and The Spice Girls. And his ability to sell products of all sorts -- including, of course, zillions of replica soccer jerseys -- is so legend as to prompt many in the sports media to suggest it was actually Beckham's marketing magnetism that moved Madrid to pay him $41 million in transfer fees to acquire his services from England's Manchester United in 2003.
Beckham, a globe-trotting socialite whose Hollywood pals include Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, already has sparked a surge in Galaxy ticket sales even though he likely won't join the team until four months after the April Start of the MLS season.
Beckham -- yes, as in "Bend It Like Beckham" -- and his wife, Victoria, aka Posh Spice, are daily tabloid fodder in England and many other soccer-crazed countries, including Spain, where he currently toils for the Real Madrid squad. He will continue to play there through June before joining Major League Soccer's Los Angeles Galaxy later in the summer.
But he is no mere soccer player.
Beckham is managed by Simon Fuller, creator of "American Idol" progenitor "Pop Idol" and The Spice Girls. And his ability to sell products of all sorts -- including, of course, zillions of replica soccer jerseys -- is so legend as to prompt many in the sports media to suggest it was actually Beckham's marketing magnetism that moved Madrid to pay him $41 million in transfer fees to acquire his services from England's Manchester United in 2003.
Beckham, a globe-trotting socialite whose Hollywood pals include Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, already has sparked a surge in Galaxy ticket sales even though he likely won't join the team until four months after the April Start of the MLS season.
- 1/11/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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