David Beckham playing for the Los Angeles Galaxy on November 1, 2012 in Carson, California. (Picture: Victor Decolongon/Getty Images/AFP) Source: Getty Images
HE played in the country, for a fee admittedly, but does he deserve this?
New Zealand Prime Minister John Kay has said David Beckham, the former Manchester United, Real Madrid and now Los Angeles Galaxy superstar, was "as thick as batshit", Radio New Zealand reported.
Kay made the stinging remarks about "Golden Balls" to a group of schoolchildren in the city of Dunedin yesterday.
He told the children that his own son had spent 45 minutes with the former England skipper when he played an exhibition match for Los Angeles Galaxy in Auckland in 2008, which cost more than $2 million.
The PM said Beckham, 37, had been very friendly, but then cruelly claimed that the star wasn't particularly bright.
Beckham's intelligence has been called into question on a number of occasions in the past, The Sun reported.
"My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about seven," he once quipped.
Asked another time whether he was a volatile player, he said: "Well, I can play in the centre, on the right, and occasionally on the left side."
Speaking on faith, he said: "We're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened but we don't know into which religion."
His wife Victoria told him in a 2000 telly documentary: "You make yourself sound stupid and you're not."
Beckham and his wife wife, 38, a fashion designer and former singer in The Spice Girls, have amassed an estimated fortune of $248 million (£160m) between them.
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