No.or is it strange that parents are inspired by their idols or resounding names to baptize their children and that they carry that legacy throughout their lives, if they do not decide to change the name when they grow up. But something special happens in football, since one would expect those named like Lionel, Cristiano, Neymar, Ronaldo, Zidane, Romario, Falcao, among others, to be footballers.
Well, in Colombian soccer there was a unique case and it did not go unnoticed during the game. Millionaires vs. Bucaramanga, valid for the first leg of the round of 16 of the Colombia Cup 2023, Beckham and Neymar met: Young players who are part of the rosters of these Colombian clubs and who have great projection.
Beyond the fact that the visiting team was winning and the local team came back to win 3-1 on the night of August 10, 2023, apart from the fact that the referee and the line assistants made wrong decisions on both sides. Any unsuspecting would be amazed when hearing or reading that the meeting between Beckham and Neymar took place at the El Campín stadium in Bogotáaway from Miami and Lionel Messi’s new team.
Although it seems obvious about Beckham David Castro, born in Cartagena on September 12, 2003, He told the Copa Libertadores Sub-20 portal the origin of his name:
My dad was a big fan of Real Madrid when Beckham played, in those days, and he named me Beckham David… In order not to give me the same name, he named me Beckham David
In case of Neymar Sánchez is different because his name was not inspired by ‘Ney’, the player who went through Santos, Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain It has had its lowest hours. And it is that, despite the fact that the Brazilian is an excellent player and stands out in top-level football from a very young age, he was barely 11 years old when he was born and the young Colombian was baptized.
The explanation is special, as told by the man born in Tumaco on November 17, 2003, speaking for Canal Capital de Bogotá and recounting this great coincidence:
Similar names exist in my family. My mom gave it to me, not because of the player, but because we live by the sea and she liked the name
At only 19 years old, Beckham David has enjoyed more minutes and exposure in the Millionaires’ first team and he even scored a goal against Real Zaragoza of Spain in the recent preseason. Neymar Sánchez is barely showing his first signs of quality and does not exceed 10 games in the first division.
Of course, the weight of the name is going to haunt them all their lives and that is why they will be in the news for good and for bad, in addition, It won’t be long before they find themselves on the pitch with some of their namesakes or with others named Messi, Ronaldinho, Zidane, Cristiano, Luka, Gareth, Xaviamong other ‘cracks’.
