Famous footballers and their motorcycles
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The world’s top footballers can easily earn eight-figure sums in a single year, and most are not shy about spending it just as quickly. The likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are famous for their multi-million dollar car collections. But there are some footballers who prefer to get their kicks on two wheels. Let’s meet them.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Sweden’s most famous export since IKEA seems to have been around forever. He’ll be turning 40 next year, but is still plying his trade at AC Millan – indeed, only a cruciate ligament injury ruled him out of Sweden’s Euro 2020 dates, in a tournament that first introduced him to an international audience back in 2004.
Zlatan loves his toys and recently bought himself an exclusive Ferrari Monza SP2. But he’s first and foremost a biker, and took delivery of the first Softail Harley Davidson VRSCF V-Rod in all of Scandinavia.
Ian Wright
Striker, TV pundit and all-round cheeky chappie Ian Wright has loved bikes ever since he was a teenager. Battling poverty in his teens and early 20s, he little suspected that his dream of riding from one side of the United States to the other on a Harley Davidson would one day become a reality, but that’s exactly what he did for his TV series Wright Across America.
Wright has eight children, two of whom have followed in their father’s footsteps and become professional footballers. Eldest son Shaun Wright Phillips, who played for England and Manchester City, shares his father’s Harley fascination and has been involved in several high profile charity rides.
Wayne Rooney
The former England skipper can be a polarising character, and has courted plenty of controversy over the years. But while the press will talk at length about anything salacious, you see less said about the many great charitable projects he’s been involved in.
One such initiative saw him fulfil a lifelong dream in getting a custom builder to create a one-off chopper style bike to his own specification. It included a special diamond-encrusted paint job that featured the famous WR10 shirt, and the man himself signed the fuel tank. The finished article was sold at auction for more than £100,000 and all proceeds were donated to a children’s charity.
David Beckham
Last but not least, we reach football’s most famous biker. Barely a day goes by without Becks being snapped riding one of his collection of customised specials near his home in the Hollywood Hills. Like the good American he has become, Beckham has several Harleys in his fleet. But he has not forgotten his roots, and the former England and Manchester United star also has an unshakable affection for Triumphs. 
In 2015, he appeared in a documentary called David Beckham into the Unknown, in which he rode his personal favourite, a modified Triumph Bonneville T100 into the deepest, darkest depths of the Amazon, accompanied by a group of friends. He described the bike as: “part desert sled, part Scrambler, part classic Bonneville.”
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