Madrid, Sept 13: England and Real Madrid star David Beckham unveiled his autobiography, My Side, in Madrid and said the work was a response to the intense scrutiny of his every move by the media. The book charts the player's career from his early days with Manchester United to his summer signing for Real.
The Ritz Hotel was the scene of an entrance worthy of a Hollywood star as Beckham came in flanked by security personnel and bodyguards prior to a video presentation of highlights of his career. Beckham's publishers Harper Collins said the book would be translated over the next few months into several other languages, including Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Italian, German and French.
The publishing house forecasts my side could sell up to a million copies worldwide and become a blockbuster success. Beckham said his parents had been the mainstay of his personal and professional success despite their divorce which he described as "the only part (of his life) that I had no control of".
Beckham goes into detail in the book about key events in his graduation from hopeful apprentice to country-wide hate figure following his sending-off against Argentina in the 1998 World Cup for a petulant kick at Diego Simeone and his later elevation to global superstar. Bureau Report