GN: You’ve always gone out on a high. At United winning the league, Madrid, LA Galaxy, is it important to you that you’ve left PSG as a winner?
加里:你一直都是个出色的球员,不管是在曼联、皇马还是洛杉矶银河。所以说,你认为以一个冠军的身份离开巴黎圣日耳曼十分重要吗?
DB: It’s every athlete’s dream, it’s every footballer’s dream to go out on the top, on top form or winning a trophy. It doesn’t happen that often. But I’ve lucky. Obviously, when I left United we won the league, when I left Madrid we won the league, leaving the Galaxy, we’d done two years of winning the championship there, and then obviously coming here and winning the league, it’s nice to go out like that. You’re leaving as a champion and that’s why I think it’s the right time.
大卫·贝克汉姆:这是每个运动员的梦想,每个球员的梦想,能在顶峰时或是赢得了奖杯后告别,我很幸运,当我离开曼联时,我们是英超冠军;当我离开皇马时,我们赢得了西甲,离开银河时,我们连续两年拿到联赛冠军;然后在巴黎,又赢得了联赛冠军。能这样告别是件好事,可以作为一个冠军离开,所以我认为现在是合适的时机。
GN: How do you want to be remembered?
加里:那你希望别人如何看待你呢?
DB: I just want people to see me as a hard-working footballer, someone that’s passionate about the game and someone who every time I’ve stepped on the pitch I’ve given everything that I have, because that’s how I feel. I think over the years, my life and my career, people have looked at other things that have gone on, and sometimes I think that’s overshadowed what I’ve done on the pitch or what I’ve achieved. As much as I say that doesn’t hurt me, of course it does. I’m a footballer that’s played for some of the biggest clubs in the world, played with some of the best players in the world, played under some of the biggest and best managers, and achieved almost everything in football, so it hurts when people think about other things. To come to the end of my career now and look back and say I’ve achieved everything with every club I’ve played for, played for my country 115 times, been runner-up twice in the World Player of the Year, I’m very proud of that.
大卫·贝克汉姆:我只希望人们能把我视为一个努力的球员,一个对于足球比赛充满激情的人,一个一旦踏上球场就会倾力付出的运动员,因为我就是这样看待自己的。这么多年,人们显然会看到一些其他方面的东西,我整个职业生涯都有这个经历,有时候,这会给我在场上的表现、以及在场上取得的成就蒙上阴影,我总说这伤害不到我,但实际上这当然会伤害我。我效力过世界上最大的俱乐部,和世界上最好的一些球员合作过。我为一些最好的教练踢过球,几乎取得了足球领域的一切成就,当人们质疑这些时,当然会令人痛苦。但到了职业生涯的终点,我可以回头看看,说自己在每家俱乐部都取得了成就。我还为我的国家出场了115次,两次在世界足球先生评选中获得第二名,我对此非常骄傲。