I went to watch the the team train this morning that is that is not good I know yeah that is not [Music] good hey what's going on everybody for first we Feast I'm Sean Evans and you're watching hot ones it's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings and today we deliver you a very special episode of hot ones brought to you by Stella Artois the official beer of hot ones summer and we're joined by Stella Global Ambassador David Beckham he's a football legend and cultural icon whose list of bonafides includes six Premier League
championships a pair of fa cups and the first English player to have won League titles in four countries his contribution to the game doesn't stop there though as he's now the president and co-owner of inter Miami where we are today in fact David Beckham welcome to the show thank you very much thanks for having me on slightly nervous can't lie before we start how are you around Hat's sauce my wife when I left the house today she was worried she was worried she was like any show that has paramedics on on set is a [Music]
[Music] problem okay it's a good stop little kick little kick I'm quite hungry as well I haven't had breakfast so there you go we offer lunch here you know here H once so you've already made a big splash with your new club signing Leo Messi to enter Miami less than a year after his World Cup win how would you articulate the power a former player like you has in talking to a current star like Messi about such a major career change there's only so far you can go on the business talk and contract talks I
think player to player I think it makes a huge difference and I came at it as a player that had obviously moved from Real Madrid to the LA Galaxy it's a gift in the sense of I want to inspire the next generation of young kids that are playing in this country because at some point the US will win the world cup at some point and it needs moments like this where you bring someone of Leo's magnitude he's good on the field he's good off the field he's the perfect professional and so if you bring someone
like that then all of these young kids that are watching throughout America going to watch him in their stadiums in their City get inspired and that's really what we wanted to [Music] do has anyone picked him apart before like this there's something about the mechanics here that is new and novel to me from the side of the table so one of the things that strik about that free kick against Greece is it almost looks like you're celebrating it before the ball hits the back of the net which is something I'll see watching Steph Curry play
you know he'll celebrate a three before it actually goes through the net is there a way to describe the sensation of knowing a strike is perfect right off the boot well you're right in saying was you celebrating before it went in because I was and that's one of my favorite things to have watched back for the occasion for what it meant for the country the moment I hit the ball I knew it was in and you see me running away which you've just obviously said about um by the way my armpits are slightly sweating already
that's right a lot of physiological Oddities as we work our way through so so so the moment I hit it and I I suppose I always describe it as a golfer you know that moment where you hit that sweet spot during that game I'd had probably eight different free kicks and it felt different from the rest I didn't score many goals so I didn't get that feeling very often but I got the feeling of that I that I'd never ever have again that moment poetic yeah before we dive into the next sauce okay should we
crack open one of these Stellas I mean it'd be rude not to all right here we go okay I'm trying to perfect this pore as well I know well I heard you're good at the pore well I'm not bad there was some chatter about perfect pores yours is pretty much right oh that's a compliment coming from you cheers [Music] David not a moment too soon yep I needed that I watched Golden's one the other night golden gon was very as we all know gon's very animated anyway absolutely so I knew he'd question obviously how cooked
the uh chicken is that is as much anxiety as I've ever had going into a shoot not thinking about how the interview would go necessarily just how Gordon might react to the wings wow good on good on him what kinds of culture shock did you experience when you first entered the MLS back in 2007 when the league was still a work in progress is it true that you would eat Cheesecake Factory desserts for pregame meals that's a funny story and that that was the probably the biggest difference when you're on the road you know as
a team you normally land on the Friday afternoon you eat together on the Friday night Saturday you have breakfast lunch and then you play the game but when I first came here we'd travel we'd go out and you know we'd get pum so we'd envelope cash yeah literally as we're getting off the bus you'd get handed an envelope and I'm like what's this and I'd open it and I was like cash it was like great and then the day of the game I thought surely there's going to be like a pre-match meal and there wasn't
so we were in I can't remember where we were but we were in the middle of nowhere and the only thing that was there was the cheesecake Factory so I literally went out the hotel all the young kids had gone to McDonald's or whatever and they'd saved their pum whereas I kind of walked out and saw Cheesecake Factory and that was my pre-match meal which um yeah Sir Alex Ferguson would have uh you quaked in his boots at that uh [Music] yeah nice kind of a smokiness to this one I'm not a big barbecue sauce
fan but this is nice I'm sure there are aches and pains that uh all come from like a cumulative effect of this 20 year long career but I am curious is there a pain that when you feel it tweak takes you back to a very specific game or specific moment I broke bones broke you know my ribs and my hand and my foot and my toes but I never really had a serious injury other than rupture in my achilles um but I suppose the worst pain that I feel every single day is my back and
I know why because I think if you watch the way I kick the ball I go at a certain angle and I did that for 20 years 22 years so you know I read Andre agy's book a few years back and I remember him saying you know I knew you know it was time to finish because I used to roll out of bed you know because I was in so much pain and I could I could relate to that um so yeah I I suppose my lower left side of my back you know that's down
to kicking the ball the way I kicked it for 22 years the consequences of bending It Like Beckham apparently so I knew you'd get that one in and how do you select each person is it just a wish list we're always pitching you know we're always chasing an opportunity but now it is nice because some of the requests are incoming now which is a nice that's a good problem that's a good problem to have that's exactly right that didn't that wasn't really that hot this one enjoy these moments I know I know knew I should
never have said that don't fight against your wins here in this game all right all right do you have a most cherished memory playing alongside or against zadan who you've described as one of your football heroes I was lucky to have those years with him and there's a couple of moments actually more than the couple of moments that I cherish I played him a ball in one game it was about 60 yard ball and I was able to just put it in front of him and he came around and he scored this beautiful goal with
his left foot you know one of my best assists in my career there's another moment playing in his last game you know his last ever game for Real Madrid that was special because his emotional side really come out and that was that was special um but I think the ultimate moment with me and zizu has to be the last training session before his last game I'm sat in the changing room and he walks in and I'm sat there I'm getting changed and he all of a sudden I I see him out the corner of my
eye getting up up and he's walking towards me and I'm like I start sweating like I am now a little bit and zizu doesn't say much you know he's a he's a man of you know few words he sits down and he said David I just want to say it's been a pleasure playing with you for the last few years and I was like and literally he then went into to get treatment and I jumped up I ran outside I took my phone and I was like couple of my mates I said you're never going
to guess what's just happened I called my dad I was like Dad just said this to me um so that has to be that has to be the moment this next one Oni ma actually from Spain Spanish the Spanish Spanish I was just about to say the Spanish do things really well that is a bit of a step up yeah yeah has that deep pepper immediate I love Spain though you know you don't have to wait for it I love Spain loving it a little less right now I'm curious when you were watching the Beckham
documentary were there moments in your life that were far different from your recollection of them once you saw the surrounding footage and interviews with other people involved you know for for instance in the 98 World Cup I hadn't seen a lot of the footage I hadn't seen you know the manager at the time come out and say what he said so the first time I'd seen it I'd never said saw one of our England fans stood outside the pub saying yeah we hung that noose up there and we took the dummy down you know that
was quite shocking for me and there was so much media hoopla that it only gets touched down briefly you know the live studio audience interview that you and Victoria did with Ali G yeah do you remember how you were prepped for that um well I remember being sat backstage in the green room with my wife and my wife you know I wasn't used to doing these kind of things so I was kind she crushed it she crushed it even better than you actually saw because they cut a lot of their stuff out just to make
just to make you know him look good uh and he looked great I remember just going in and saying to Victoria I'm going to let you talk I'm just going to sit there and just take it what's the origin story of the be honest meme because I understand that fiser Stevens tried everything in his power to keep you guys separate well he was angry he was angry with me you know Fisher I love Fisher he apparently wanted me out the house and this that particular day was Victoria's first day of filming when she was sat
there the door was closed and then I was about to leave for the office but I made a coffee and then I saw a spare set of headphones so I put the headphones on and I heard Fisher talking about you know the whole um you know our parents and our upbringing and then all of a sudden I heard I say you know we're just we we're working class and that moment I was like okay I headed to the door I opened the door and I saw Fisher's face and he was not happy and I was
like so that's really I was like be honest the camera guys were so amazing because they literally paned over to me at the door um and that was really a moment that uh yeah kind of kind of went viral but Fisher was not happy Fisher was really not happy blackeyed Susan and where's this one from has kind of some late life this one's from Maryland so this is like a slow burner mhm literally yeah and that's what you're probably going through now yeah as you fight through it me the same way that's not good did
you have a favorite chant to hear from fans you know when Harry Kane was on the show he said that the he's one of our own chant that he would hear from Spurs fans was very important to him the fans sing a lot about you know old older players and players from the past but I never seem to hear it as much maybe maybe because I don't go to many games but you know even on the Telly I hear you know songs about Eric cantar and Brian Robson and Roy Keane from Manchester United fans but
I very rarely hear there's only one David Beckham that was really the only chant that I ever wanted to hear and I'd like to hear it again if if any United fans are watching please you know just from time to time just from time to time you know I'm I'm still still a United fan um so yeah just every now and again just you know there's only one David be please I'm not excited about this one yeah that's not good and really does not taste good either you know I had a conversation with my mom
last night and I said I'm going on this TV show tomorrow so I'm going on this TV show tomorrow said Gordon's been on it I said have a look online see what you think so she called me this morning on the way so I went to watch the the team train this morning that is that is not good I know yeah that is not good um are these hotter the experience that you're going through right now is a singular experience this is an extremely hot sauce concentrated and pure she said um please don't swear she
said I S gold held strong I've held strong she said please don't square square is it true that you once took down 32 escargo while dining at Shaya M Loui in Paris that's my record Lamy Louie is my one of my favorite restaurants in the world it's like 100 years old so when I was playing for PSG I found this place and I used to go in there on my own it used to open at 7:30 I used to go in there at 700 they used to let me sit in the corner I'd feast and
then I'd leave because I couldn't really be seen right eating the amount that I was eating at the time while still playing so I sat there with my wife one night romantic meal we ordered an amazing bottle of wine and I'm sat there and I'm eating and eating and she's just sat there like she normally does when I feast and she's like you need to stop you're going to burst so I remember getting that the the the best esar go but you know I've been I've been so lucky because I I grew up in the
East End of London that's still burning that one yeah I know forever changes I grew up in the East End of London jelly deals is it's a cut up ill and it comes with gelatine doesn't sound great you love it but as an East End boy it's what I grew up on and one of my favorite meals in Manchester was chips peas and gravy so just french fries mushy peas and gravy when I moved to Madrid I all of a sudden discovered you know the Spanish food and that I absolutely loved so the hamon and
the angulas and the and the garlic you know living in Spain spending time and playing in Milan living and playing in Paris Living in America traveling to Asia a lot spending a lot of time in China Japan all of these places and I'm I eat anything I really do case in point you know and in those travels coming on to talk shows where you expose yourself to the wonderful world of hot sauce I'm not sure this is a good as experience as um Lamy Louie but you know you great memory great memory actually it is
a good experience I like it I like challenging [Music] myself I must have touched the bottom of my nose little hot spot on the face I've been there before just be careful around the eyes though that would be the worst place worst place second worst place okay what would you say is the most impressive thing you've ever built with Legos you're proud this moment as a Lego Master my nose is on fire my sinus is are great though yeah right it's a little give and a little take here you um I don't know what my
favorite Lego is actually um I've done so many over the years um I had the Manchester United I had Old Trafford did the Old Trafford Stadium um but I love Lego I care I love Lego I just you know I love it what makes SE you'll be there your favorite Spice Girl song I remember being sat in a hotel with Gary Neville who is my teammate for Manchester United and my best man at my wedding and we had a game the next day and we were in the hotel and we sat there watching the Telly
and all of a sudden the Spice Girls came on with their new their new video and it came on I think it was on top of the pops and uh it will say you be there I turned around to Gary and I was like see the one in the black dress see actually it wasn't a black dress see the one in the black cat suit I'm going to marry that one and as you can imagine we were laughing and joking and I was like no I'm going to marry that one and uh and I did
so uh yeah imagine that but um we're playing against Chelsea and uh we're in the changer room getting ready for for the game and one of the players came in and he said uh there's two Spice Girls here and I was like what ones and he was like sporty and uh and Posh and I was like oh my God this is it so I played the game I scored a goal a great goal actually I scored a great goal so I went up and I introduced myself because the manager was a Manchester United fan and
I introduced myself to Victoria and and then said hello and I was there for 30 seconds cuz I was I was quite embarrassed and then I left got on the bus and I was like I've missed my opportunity um and then literally the week after a player comes and he says they're back same Spice Girls are here again um and then that's really when I saw my opportunity because I walked into the Players Lounge and Victoria was there and she'd had a couple of glasses of wine and I was like okay okay here's my opportunity
to give me a number or get her number so um yeah she uh she gave me her number on a on a plane ticket and uh I still have the plane ticket believe it or not so um yeah that's how it all started it's enough to bring a tear to my eye and it's not even the wings [Music] David okay let me do that there you go that's the smart way to do it okay little bit of sweetness mhm and and it grows but the good news is David Beckham the wings of death they're behind
us you've conquered the gauntlet and to close things out you know your hairstyles they've inspired Trends they've inspired lore and they've even sparked some controversies so to close things out what we're going to do is pull up some of our favorite iconic David Beckham hairstyles and you just give us the first couple of things that come to mind when you think about what inspired these eras and we'll start with the Mohawk impulsive or something that was kind of in the works for a while it actually wasn't impulsive because I'd just done a photo shoot where
I shaved part of my hair off myself and then I went into um I went into oh my God I had a game at Wembley shortly after and um and uh as I'm walking into the Chang room I take my cap off and and the boss is sat opposite me and he was like go and shave it off he literally got a pair of clippers for me and I had to go and shave that off in the in the in the toilet um oh my God short lived shortlived up next one that I'm partial to
the shaved head which you actually called your favorite it's it was it's my favorite because of the ease of a that's the lifestyle accustomed to I could never go back you know but but the shocking the shocking well you could go back you could go back no I can't yeah you can the shocking part about this was obviously I went from having this long you know Cur you these these curtains that I had uh to to that overnight and uh yeah that was the shocking part of this but he one of my best haircuts favorite
and one more for you the ponytail yeah ponytail well I'm surprised you you've not got the double ponytail up there the the samurai the gy um it was just long and that was the only way of keeping it out my eyes for the game practical cuz you know when you talk about the curtains you know or like the bangs it's practical actually to pull everything back it's practical when you're in a game of vision it's practical yeah and look at you David Beckham taking on the wings of death living to tell the tail and proud
of myself nothing left to do but celebrate with a Stella toast yes cheers oh my God this camera this camera this camera or this camera let the people know what you have going on in your life well this afternoon there's not much going to be going on um but uh I want to thank you Sean because I was nervous about this when I when I arrived and I think I did okay you did amazing my nose is on fire my mouth's on fire my nose I don't know how my nose is on fire um yeah
thank you so much for for having me on um you know Stellar artar have some amazing uh events coming up and dinners coming up and uh I'm really excited about those um but obviously there's also one in New York that I'm really excited about so cheers to that my God my nose is on fire thank you [Music] thanks for letting me do it no my kids no my honestly my kids were like Dad I can't believe you're doing it
