David Beckham: For the Love of the Game
David Beckham sets himself the challenge of a lifetime: playing a football match on all seven continents of the globe.
David Beckham sets himself the challenge of a lifetime: playing a football match on all seven continents of the globe and getting back in time for his own star-studded Unicef fundraising match at Old Trafford.
Playing the beautiful game in some of the most challenging and remote locations of the world, David discovers how important football is to the many different people he meets and plays with and confirms some universal truths about the game itself: it's unique ability to inspire and unite people across the world.
The first three games see David play in some of the countries for which he is a Unicef ambassador: tribes in the jungles of Papua New Guinea; children from an earthquake-damaged school in Nepal and footballers from three African countries at a refugee camp in the middle of the desert near Djibouti. David flies on to Argentina where he plays in urban Buenos Aires with a community youth team from the infamous Boca Juniors then to the surreal icy landscape of Antarctica to play with an international team, then to Miami, USA where he plays a night time game on top of a skyscraper with the University of Miami women's soccer team before finally flying on to Old Trafford in Manchester for his Unicef fundraiser match with an all star line up including Sir Alex Ferguson as his team manager.
Exhausting, exhilarating and logistically demanding, David's challenge is about both his own and the world's love of the game.
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Clips
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Football on ice
Duration: 00:43
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The future footballers of Argentina
Duration: 01:08
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Trail: David Beckham - For the Love of the Game
Duration: 00:20
Music Played
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Primal Scream
Movin' On Up
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The Chemical Brothers
The State We're In
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C2C
Down The Road
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Ghostpoet
Be Right Back, Moving House
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New Order
Blue Monday
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Jamie xx
Stranger In A Room (feat. Oliver Sim)
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John Newman
Come And Get It
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Embrace
Ashes
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Participant | David Beckham |
Participant | Dave Gardner |
Participant | Simon Oliveira |
Participant | Justin Tkatchenko |
Participant | Gideon Moses |
Participant | Josephine Mill |
Participant | Angra Dom |
Participant | Noah John |
Participant | David Bong |
Participant | Frederick Bong |
Participant | Saral Koju |
Participant | Ram Hada |
Participant | Deepak Mool |
Participant | Sanumaya Koju |
Participant | Laymi Sundar |
Participant | Deepa Lohala |
Participant | Isael Adhi Hassan |
Participant | Taman Mahamoud |
Participant | Kadar Djama Adan |
Participant | Mohamed Omar Hassan |
Participant | Padre Nalwel |
Participant | Naheel Ramirez |
Participant | Claudia Gimenez |
Participant | Rachael Ramirez |
Participant | Hannah McKeand |
Participant | Mary Monroe |
Participant | Jasmine Paterson |
Participant | Peter Crouch |
Participant | Patrick Kluivert |
Participant | David James |
Participant | Nicky Butt |
Participant | Luis Figo |
Participant | Ryan Giggs |
Participant | Alex Ferguson |
Producer | Matt Smith |
Director | Matt Smith |
Executive Producer | Emma Hindley |
Producer | Lisa Doyle |
Production Manager | Phillippa Whittall |
Production Company | Big Earth |
Broadcasts
- Tue 29 Dec 2015 21:00
- Sat 30 Jan 2016 03:05
- Mon 21 Jun 2021 23:15Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two England & HD only
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