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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.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Mon 21 Jun 202123:15

Music Played

  • Primal Scream

    Movin' On Up

  • The Chemical Brothers

    The State We're In

  • C2C

    Down The Road

  • Ghostpoet

    Be Right Back, Moving House

  • New Order

    Blue Monday

  • Jamie xx

    Stranger In A Room (feat. Oliver Sim)

  • John Newman

    Come And Get It

  • Embrace

    Ashes

Credits

RoleContributor
ParticipantDavid Beckham
ParticipantDave Gardner
ParticipantSimon Oliveira
ParticipantJustin Tkatchenko
ParticipantGideon Moses
ParticipantJosephine Mill
ParticipantAngra Dom
ParticipantNoah John
ParticipantDavid Bong
ParticipantFrederick Bong
ParticipantSaral Koju
ParticipantRam Hada
ParticipantDeepak Mool
ParticipantSanumaya Koju
ParticipantLaymi Sundar
ParticipantDeepa Lohala
ParticipantIsael Adhi Hassan
ParticipantTaman Mahamoud
ParticipantKadar Djama Adan
ParticipantMohamed Omar Hassan
ParticipantPadre Nalwel
ParticipantNaheel Ramirez
ParticipantClaudia Gimenez
ParticipantRachael Ramirez
ParticipantHannah McKeand
ParticipantMary Monroe
ParticipantJasmine Paterson
ParticipantPeter Crouch
ParticipantPatrick Kluivert
ParticipantDavid James
ParticipantNicky Butt
ParticipantLuis Figo
ParticipantRyan Giggs
ParticipantAlex Ferguson
ProducerMatt Smith
DirectorMatt Smith
Executive ProducerEmma Hindley
ProducerLisa Doyle
Production ManagerPhillippa Whittall
Production CompanyBig Earth

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