The Nation’s Online Editor Carol Martindale looks at What’s Trending today in Barbados.
News his afternoon that David Beckham will be retiring from soccer is what our readers are talking about.
The 38-year-old former England captain, who recently won a league title in a fourth country with Paris Saint-Germain, said today he will retire after the season.
“It’s a good way to go out,” Beckham said in Paris. “It’s every athlete’s dream, every footballer’s dream to go out on the top — on top form or winning a trophy … leaving as a champion.”
These are some of the comments shared by readers.
Kimberley Gibson: “Well done, Sir”.
Eugenia Rice: “Adore my Beckham (or bend it like Beckham)!”
Natasha Deane: ” Seems all the good ones in football retiring this year…. Sir Alex, Paul Scholes, now Beckham”.
Hester Simpson: “He will be miss by his fans and I am one of them”.
