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David Beckham’s illustrious career as a world-renowned footballer has come as a shock to his son Cruz, who didn’t realise how good his dad was at the sport until the family’s Netflix documentary.
The 49-year-old model and businessman won six Premier League titles, two FA Cups and the Champions League during his career with Manchester United, before he went on to play with Real Madrid in a record-breaking transfer deal and subsequently to LA Galaxy.
David and Spice Girl Victoria married in a lavish wedding ceremony in 1999, and share four children together. They include 25-year-old Brooklyn married to billionaire heiress Nicola Peltz-Beckham, Romeo aged 22, Cruz, 19, and 13-year-old Harper.
The couple and their family were the subject of Netflix documentary Beckham, most well-known for a viral moment in which David calls out Victoria’s recollection of her “working-class” background despite her father dropping her to school in a Rolls-Royce.
“It was funny, actually. Cruz was like, ‘I didn’t realise that dad was so good at football’,” Victoria told Harper’s Bazaar about the aftermath of the Netflix documentary.
“You forget it was a long time ago. They were always at the games, but they were really little, and too young to understand,” she continued.
Victoria is set to pick up the entrepreneur award at the Harper’s Bazaar Women of the Year Awards 2024 on Tuesday (5 November).
She also explained how her family had “figured out how to be quite discreet, which is just how we want to conduct our lives right now”.
She added: “I suppose it used to be fun to go out and be chased by paparazzi walking down Bond Street – and you would dress knowing you were going to get that.
“I don’t want that any more. I’ve been doing this too long. I suppose I did when I was growing up but, nowadays, there’s just too much going on; too busy; too many kids to worry about.I woke up at 50, and I gave a sh*t less.”
