David and Victoria Beckham Reminisce on the Moment They Met: ‘I Just Fancied Her’

The longtime couple talk about meeting each other for the first time in 1997

David and Victoria Beckham . PHOTO: COURTESY OF NETFLIX

David Beckham and his wife Victoria instantly light up as they each recount the moment they first laid eyes on each other in the upcoming Netflix documentary on the soccer star’s life, Beckham.

In a just-released clip of the four-part documentary, the couple, who have been married for 24 years, individually describe the spark they felt when they met for the first time at a soccer match in 1997.

At the time, David played for Manchester United and Victoria was superstar singer Posh Spice with the Spice Girls.

“The fact that I went to the games really was just to kind of…some would say stalk him,” Victoria, 49, recalled in the clip. “I would say ‘see’ him,” she says, smiling and looking casual in a white blouse and jeans, sitting on a comfy-looking couch, her knee under one leg.

“When I saw him in the footballers’ lounge, all the other footballers were at the bar, but he was standing talking to his parents,” she said in the clip, as a photo of David when he had bright blond hair and his family flashes across the screen.

This appealed to Victoria, now a fashion designer, she said, because she is close to her parents, Jackie and Anthony Admas.

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“And I’m very close to my family and I love that side to him,” she said.

The documentary then cuts away to David, 48, who gushes about their first magical meeting.

Victoria and David during their early days of their relationship.COURTESY OF NETFLIX

“That first time that I speak to her,” he said in a slow, measured cadence for emphasis, “I just fancied her.”

The camera then cuts back to Victoria who was on a similar wavelength: “I just, I just fancied him. It was as simple as that,” she said.

David and Victoria tied the knot in July 1999 and have four children: Brooklyn, 24, Romeo, 21, Cruz, 18, and Harper, 12.

David told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show three years ago that their second meeting was more involved. “We talked for about an hour in the players’ lounge and then she actually got the train up that day, so she wrote her number down on her train ticket, which I still have,” he revealed.

Victoria and David Beckham in June 2023.STEPHANE CARDINALE – CORBIS/CORBIS

His devotion to his wife is also evident on his tattoo markings. He has a “Victoria” tattooed on his arm and just recently he got “Posh” tattooed next to his wedding-band ring finger.

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In 2018, the Bend It Like Beckham star shared the secret to his marriage with The Sunday Project‘s Lisa Wilkinson. “I think marriage is always about hard work,” he said. “To have been married for the amount of time that we have, you know it’s always hard work, everybody knows that, but you make it work, you make difficult situations, like traveling away, being away from each other, you make it work.”

The documentary was directed and produced by Academy Award winners Fisher Stevens and John Battsek, who were granted access to David, Victoria, family, friends and his teammates. It begins streaming on Netflix Oct. 4.

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