David Beckham Gives His Dad a Job

David Beckham has given his dad a job.

The LA Galaxy soccer stud has employed Ted Beckham to help out at his British soccer academy. He will stand in for his son to hand out prizes to kids at the coaching school in London.

David and Ted, 60, had become estranged -- but the rift was healed last year when David flew in from Los Angeles to be at his bedside after gas-fitter Ted nearly died of a heart attack.

Ted's divorce from David's mother Sandra, his attitude to Victoria, his support for Sir Alex Ferguson and the book he wrote about his famous son were said to be some of the reasons the pair drifted apart.

But when David learned of his father's heart attack he rushed 6,000 miles from LA to be with him -- and their relationship was on the mend.

A milestone was reached in March when proud Ted looked on as David won his 100th England cap, surrounded by grandsons Brooklyn, 8, Romeo, 5, and three-year-old Cruz.

A Beckham family friend yesterday told Britain's Sunday Mirror newspaper, "David and his father now chat regularly on the phone."