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In the summer of 2003, David Beckham made transfer history by moving from Manchester United to Real Madrid. For Beckham, the boy from Chingford who had devoted his professional life to Manchester United and become a global celebrity, the move to Spain represented the biggest challenge of his career. Real Madrid was proud of its tradition as the most successful football club ever- an institution whose influence in Spain was huge and whose trophy record was unrivalled around the world. Beckham had to prove that he was more than just a brand to Real Madrid's supporters, that he was a player worthy of playing in a team that had gathered the leading stars from across the globe, that he understood what it meant to play football in Spain.
In the summer of 2003, David Beckham made transfer history by moving from Manchester United to Real Madrid. For Beckham, the boy from Chingford who had devoted his professional life to Manchester United and become a global celebrity, the move to Spain represented the biggest challenge of his career. Real Madrid was proud of its tradition as the most successful football club ever- an institution whose influence in Spain was huge and whose trophy record was unrivalled around the world. Beckham had to prove that he was more than just a brand to Real Madrid's supporters, that he was a player worthy of playing in a team that had gathered the leading stars from across the globe, that he understood what it meant to play football in Spain.
This book is an original and illuminating account of one of the most fascinating cultural and social encounters of our time. Burns makes clear that while Spain had never encountered an Englishman quite like Beckham, the country remains a strange, idiosyncratic land, proud of its traditions, while embracing modernity. It has never been easily understood by foreigners.
Jimmy Burns follows Beckham during his first dramatic season with Real Madrid and puts the experience in the broader context of the history of the club and of Spain, recalling his own memories growing up in one of Europe's fastest changing countries, where politics, culture and football have always been linked. As in his previous internationally acclaimed books on Maradona and FC Barcelona, Burns has once again transcended the formal confines of sports journalism and has produced a must read not just for Beckham fans, but for those with a broader interest in Spain and its people.
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David Beckham's transfer to Real Madrid was football's worst kept secret. After he moved, it seemed the British press devoted more coverage to the Spanish game than their own. But while Beckham's arrival at Real Madrid captured the world's imagination, in the hands of author Jimmy Burns, this is much more than a book about David Beckham and Real Madrid. It is about how Spain became Europe's most exciting country, a revolution in the world of football; and how this came to be epitomised by the arrival of a sports icon.
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