Messi to this country, he brought the Spice

Girls back together, too.

His very entertaining docuseries,

Beckham, is on Netflix now.

Please welcome David Beckham.

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Is this a secret to your beauty, you put honey on your face?

It is. It is.

This is your own honey, right?

It is our own honey, yeah.

You know what?

We could have used you earlier today, because I don't know if you heard about this, but show this.

We have a little video.

We had a swarm of bees living under an umbrella outside.

Did you know any of those guys?

Unfortunately not.

Those are not your guys.

But I'm happy to take them back to London.

Yeah, sure.

That would be great on the plane.

You own, for people who don't follow what we call soccer, you call football, sometimes we meet in the middle, you own the Miami Football Club.

You're one of the owners of it.

How many owners are there?

Those are you?

There's three of us.

There's myself, and then two brothers,

Jorge Mas and Jose Mas.

So it's just the three of us.

You, Jorge, and Jose own this team.

And it has become, is it more successful than you thought it was going to be?

I always hoped that it would be this successful.

And obviously, bringing someone like Leo helps.

So obviously, that was always the plan.

But you never know.

Are you aware of how popular he is?

I know in Miami, obviously, there's a lot of people there.

But my son, who's seven years old, who has never watched one moment of football, he couldn't pick Messi out of a lineup, yet he's got the whole, oh, he's got all the apparel, the pink shirt, the cleats, the whole deal.

And he's just like Messi crazy, even though, I don't know, he just somehow it happened.

I don't know what happened.

It's just that effect that Leo has on the game and the world.

One of the reasons why we wanted to bring him to America was to inspire the next generation.

That was my plan.

I obviously wanted to bring him for the player he is and the person he is.

I've played against him numerous times, actually twice, thankfully.

Thankfully.

But I've been a fan of him and watched him for many years.

And I always had the plan to bring the greatest player to ever play the game, in my opinion, to our team.

And luckily, it happened.

Is he, in your opinion, is he the greatest player ever to play the game?

I think everyone's got their own opinions.

But for me, personally.

Well, yours have to mean more than others.

Well, you know, there's a lot of great players who have played the game over the years.

But in my opinion, he's the perfect player.

And how do you convince him to come out?

Did you say, look at how well everything worked out for me?

Well, I could actually come at him and with him with, obviously, my experience of moving to America and coming to a league that actually, at that time, wasn't established like it is now.

There was only 13 teams in the league.

Now there's almost 30.

And it's in a different position than what it was back then when I first came.

But he's always loved Miami.

He always loved the idea of the project of bringing the game even bigger in this country.

And when you bring someone like that to America, people notice.

Yeah. Well, sure.

We certainly noticed when you showed up.

It's been very special.

Yeah.

Your wife, most people I would presume know, is Victoria, who is from the Spice Girls.

Yeah.

She had a, I mentioned in your introduction that she had a birthday party.

And you put this together?

Big one. Yeah.

I did put it together.

Well, I think we have a video here of what happened at the birthday party.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Woo!

Is this?

Woo!

Thank you!

How long had it been since they sang together?

It's actually been like 12 years since they did the Olympics in the UK.

But 15, over 15 years since they actually were on the stage together.

So obviously having them all there that night.

And I didn't expect them to all get up on stage.

But I had a whole video planned where me and my kids recreated the Mama video.

Oh, really?

So my son, who plays the guitar and sings, had a song and he sang Mama.

And then all of a sudden, all the girls got up.

And I was like, and I'm their biggest fan.

You know, I tend to not tell my wife that.

Because, you know, I tend to tell her that I fancied her when she was a Spice Girl.

So, you know, I love that about her.

Yeah, sure.

I'm sure she loved the fact that you were on a team too, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So I was a fan.

I loved your documentary.

I mean, it was so good.

If you have not seen it, it's like, I'm going to be honest.

I have almost zero interest in soccer.

I mean, I really, but I thought you guys, the two of you, and your story is incredible.

And your chemistry, and just how funny you guys are together was really delightful to watch.

We got so caught up in it.

Yeah, well, you know, we've been together for 27 years in July.

You know, we've been married for 25.

So it's our 25th wedding anniversary in July.

But with the documentary, you know, people wanted me to do it a long time ago, you know, when I retired.

And I actually wasn't ready to kind of look back.

I was ready to jump into something else on the business and with Miami.

But then I had a plan about seven years out.

And I said, OK, for my 10-year anniversary of my retirement,

I want to do the documentary.

And that was really the plan.

But then when we did it, you know, it was, it just, it was amazing.

You know, I.

Some of the footage that you're really, one of your main cameramen is your dad in the, I mean, because he shot so much video of you.

And we're going to show a little bit of that in a second.

But what did, when you saw it, when you watched the whole thing for the first time, how did it hit you?

Well, I planned to watch it on the morning, one morning early, just myself in a, with a big screen and just, you know, to write notes because it was a really early, early edit.

When I watched it that morning, I really didn't like it.

I didn't enjoy watching it.

So I'd planned to then let my wife watch it for the first time at the premiere.

But then obviously I had to then change that and get her to watch it that evening with me.

And we literally, we sat in bed with an iPad and we watched two hours of rough edit.

And like, we got to the end of it and we looked at each other and we were so emotional.

It was like, like we laughed, we cried, we were tired because we've done so much in that 27 years.

You know, and that, and that really was the moment where I fell in love with the documentary because I knew that she loved it.

And that meant more to me.

And then did you, and we learned one of the things that we learned in the documentary is that you are a neat freak to an extreme, extreme, like a real extreme.

Yeah, I know.

And like, after you're in bed watching this, do you say,

OK, now we're going to make the bed?

Yeah, I'm a little bit OCD.

I'm a little bit, yeah, a little bit.

Yeah, more than a little bit OCD.

Like, are you looking around right now and wanting to clean stuff up here?

A little bit.

I mean, the carpet could have been vacuumed in a little straight.

But in all honesty, you know, that is what I'm like.

Victoria always jokes, because when we have our friends around for dinner or drinks, you know, I start turning, like, lights off and cleaning the candles and, you know, start cleaning.

Yeah, you trim the candle wicks.

I do, I do.

Oh, insanity.

But it's not just the wicks.

It's the outside of the glass as well, so I know.

It's not just the wicks, folks.

David Beckham is here.

His documentary Netflix is on Netflix called Beckham.

We'll be right back.

My dad used to make me do corner after corner after corner after corner and put it in the exact same spot as he wanted it.

And if I didn't, he'd kill me.

He used to tell me, it's moments like corners at the end of the game that can create history.

Is this that moment?

Beckham.

It's your own sparkle.

It's comfort to iron your.

Cleared.

Gives with a shot.

She's in.

With 30 seconds on the clock.

That's David Beckham.

His documentary is called Beckham.

It's on Netflix.

That's, boy, your dad, for those who haven't seen it, he taped every one of your games.

And he's a little bit of a maniac, yeah?

Yeah.

He's a little bit of a maniac.

One of your games.

And he's a little bit of a maniac, yes?

I mean, I wouldn't call him a maniac, personally.

But yeah, he was quite obsessed with me becoming a footballer.

So yeah, he taped everything, kept every newspaper cut in, everything.

And my mom was the same.

Mom was exactly the same.

Mom seemed, at least in the documentary, she seemed a little like maybe she wanted your dad to ease up a little bit.

Well, she's a protective mom.

Yeah.

She took it out on a journalist once.

She stayed in a hotel.

And there was this one journalist that just kept on writing really not nice things about me and about my game.

And she found out what room he was in.

So she put every dinner, every drink, on his room.

And yeah.

Good.

Yeah.

Protective mom.

Good.

You went through a lot.

I mean, I felt very sorry for you at parts of the documentary.

People go, oh, he's a millionaire.

He's married to one of the Spice Girls.

He's just incredibly handsome.

And we shouldn't feel sorry for him.

But I did feel sorry for you.

You know, I think one of the reasons, you know, one of the things that came out of the documentary, to be honest, is in the US, I think, people obviously knew that I came to the galaxy.

They knew my career.

But what they didn't know was that and what happened throughout my career.

And I think that surprised a lot of people.

And I also, you know, even in the UK, through that time, it was difficult. And you saw that it was difficult.

But recently, we were in a pub in London.

And I came out, and on the windscreen of my car was a note, no name on it, just, we're so sorry for the way we treated you.

And it was like, you know.

Oh, that's nice.

Yeah, so.

I like that.

Signed everyone.

Signed everyone.

Do you ever talk to, like, Travis Kelsey and say, hey, man, here's what you have to expect?