David Beckham to retire

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Football megastar David Beckham announced that he is to retire after a glittering 20-year playing career in which he became one of the most widely recognized figures in world sport. The former England captain, 38, made the announcement shortly after winning the Ligue 1 title with French giants Paris Saint-Germain, which made him the first Englishman to win league championships in four different countries. Blessed with an extraordinarily accurate right foot, Beckham was renowned for his dead-ball prowess and his seemingly limitless reserves of stamina. He bows out from the game at the same time as his Manchester United mentor Alex Ferguson, who handed Beckham his professional debut in 1993 and thereby launched one of the most newsworthy careers in the history of the English game.

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