Perhaps you’ve heard of him. From what we can tell, he’s a pretty good soccer players. Well, a few years ago, Beckham, the European-turn-American soccer player with a large cross tattoo on his chest, found out that his mother comes from a Jewish family.

Beckham wasn’t raised a Jew, and doesn’t practice any religion these days, but upon finding out that he was “half Jewish” (his words, not ours), he got a tattoo on his arm that reads, “I am for my beloved and my beloved is for me,” a quote that some of you might recognize from the Song of Songs (Ani L’Dodi, V’Dodi Li).