David Beckham, 48, addressed the well-known buzz short he sported in 2000, within the 3rd episode of the fresh Netflix docuseries, Beckham, in line with PEOPLE. The soccer champion, who up to now had longer golden hair, clear what took place in the back of the scenes when he made up our minds to cut his locks off and jerk at the fresh taste, which ended up changing into iconic.

“I had a hairdresser at the time called Tyler. I said to him, ‘I’m gonna cut my hair’ and he was like, ‘Are you sure? You really want to do that?,’ ” David defined within the episode.

He additional defined that Manchester United Educator Sir Alex Ferguson faced him concerning the coiffure alternate forward in their fit in opposition to Leicester Town in March 2000. “And [Alex] said, ‘David take the cap off.’ And I said, ‘No,’” he stated.

“Stubbornness,” Alex additionally recalled. “And then I said, ‘Oh well.’”

David debuted the fresh buzz short at the farmland throughout a sport, and it surprised many commentators and audience. Regardless of the obese highlight it put at the athlete, he admitted that “attention” wasn’t why he made the alternate. “I never did it to create attention. I’m not that person,” he stated.

The docuseries additionally appeared again at the craze the excitement short introduced from David’s fanatics again within the pace. “When David Beckham shaved his head, I honestly thought a member of my family had died. Because my phone went off,” stated James Clarke, a Manchester paparazzi, stated. “The panic in people’s voices that this… We haven’t got it documented yet.”

He went on so as to add that the fresh short turned into a excess popular culture while and made lots of David’s more youthful fanatics need to short their hair just like him. “Actually youngsters, ‘I want to be David Beckham, I want to shave my head. And schools were having to write in, ‘No shaving of heads,’ “ he stated.

David’s spouse, Victoria Beckham, also spoke concerning the memorable while, within the line, which provides an in-depth have a look at his occasion through the years. The previous Spice Lady admitted she although that once her husband shaved his head, he began “going from a boy to a man” and it for sure larger his self belief. “And it’s only natural that you’ll start flexing your muscles right? And don’t all kids rebel against their parents?,” she stated.