Victoria Beckham has claimed that her son Cruz was not aware of how “good” his father, the former England captain David Beckham, was at football. David, who tied the knot with Victoria in 1999, won six Premier League titles, two FA Cups and the Champions League during his career with Manchester United, before going on to play with Real Madrid and LA Galaxy. He was one of the biggest names in football, and is the only Englishman to have scored in three different World Cups.
Victoria spoke to Harper’s Bazaar’s December/January issue about the impact of a Netflix documentary about the ex winger, which saw a viral moment of David interrupting her talking about her childhood. Victoria said: “It was funny, actually. Cruz was like, ‘I didn’t realise that dad was so good at football’.
“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 is picking up the entrepreneur gong at the Harper’s Bazaar Women of the Year Awards 2024 on Tuesday.
Cruz, 19, is the couple’s third child, and has previously shown off his singing and guitar talents on social media. His older brother, Romeo, has followed his father into a football career, by playing for Brentford B after he signed a one-year deal from Inter Miami – the US team co-owned by David – last year. Victoria, who also has eldest son Brooklyn and daughter Harper with David, told Harper’s Bazaar that both she and her husband have “figure.