madrid – The Walt Disney Company EMEA has announced that the footballer David Beckham to star in a new series for Disney +, Save our Squad, in which he will return to the football fields of East London where he played as a child. In those same fields, Beckham will mentor a young grassroots soccer team struggling to survive in the league. Beckham and his team will take these players, their coach and their community to live “a transformative adventure that will change their lives forever,” according to a statement released yesterday.
The soccer icon was delighted to be able to “shed light” on the type of soccer he played early in his career. “It is wonderful to do Save Our Squad with Twenty Twenty to shed light on the type of football I played growing up that meant so much to me early in my career. Now I have the wonderful opportunity to give back to those communities all that they have given me by becoming their mentor, “he added.
The series will have six 35-minute episodes It is a UK production within the company’s commitment to sourcing, developing and producing original titles locally, with the ambition to create 50 productions in Europe by 2024.
