England's David Beckham gestures to hundreds of soccer fans from a window of the team hotel in Nuremberg, June 14, 2006. England plays Trinidad and Tobago in their first round World Cup 2006 match on Thursday. [Reuters]

Monday's article was spread across almost the entire back page of Bild and described how Beckham's family looked while watching England's 1-0 win over Paraguay on Saturday.

"That's one thing that is hard to accept," Beckham said on Tuesday in Buehlertal, Germany. "I've come to terms with people criticizing me as a footballer, but when it comes to my family that's one thing I will never accept.

"I actually find it sad that someone drops to that level to criticize my family. It's just one sad person sat in a room thinking of one thing that maybe can try to put me off the next game. I'm not going to let it do that."

The article said Beckham's wife Victoria, a former singer with the Spice Girls, was a "luxury wife," described two of three of Beckham's sons as dwarves, and called one, Romeo, a girl. It also described Beckham's mother as having "a farmer's smile" and his sister Joanne as "Chubbyham."

"Oops is she plump," the paper wrote. "Arms, breasts, bum - very British. Joanne is one of those who drinks sangrias on a Mallorca beach out of buckets. And after that the first to dance on the table - topless."

Beckham said he found it disappointing because he'd always had a good relationship with the German public.

"It's one of my biggest markets outside of football and it's also the home of (sponsor) Adidas," Beckham said. "It's just one person. I'm not going to let it put me off one of the biggest football competitions."

Beckham said he was used to being mocked after the vitriol he received after getting sent off against Argentina in the 1998 World Cup. England lost that match on penalties.

"My family are used to it for the last 10 years," he said. "When something has happened on the pitch it's my family that has been affected going back to 1998. My parents had vans and 20 photographers outside their house for three weeks after the event. I try to put up with it but when it gets to my nan and granddad, my parents, my sister, it's hard for them."