Beckham ya taka leda a dukkan wasannin neman shiga gasar cin kofin duniya na 1998 kuma ya kasance cikin tawagar Ingila a wasan karshe na gasar cin kofin duniya a Faransa, amma manajan kungiyar Glenn Hoddle ya zarge shi da cewa bai mai da hankali kan gasar ba, kuma bai fara wasa ba a cikin wasannin Ingila biyu na farko. An zaba shi a wasan na uku da Colombia kuma ya zira kwallaye 30 a wasan nasara 2-0, wanda shine burinsa na farko ga Ingila. A zagaye na biyu (na karshe 16) na wannan gasar, ya sami jan kati a wasan Ingila da Argentina. Beckham, bayan da Diego Simeone ya buge shi, ya buge Simeone yayin da yake kwance a kasa, ya buge shi a kan tsoka mai mahimmanci. Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin
yana kokarin fitar da Beckham daga wasan ta hanyar yin mummunar amsawa ga harbi sannan kuma, tare da sauran mambobin kungiyarsa, suna roƙon alkalin wasa ya fitar da Beckham.