Wayne Rooney spent six years as David Beckham’s international team-mate as the Red Devils icon had quite the experience when visiting Madrid to have dinner with the Inter Miami co-owner
Wayne Rooney revealed that Victoria Beckham‘s sense of humour would surprise people. The Manchester United legend discussed his experience of having dinner with the Spice Girl and husband David Beckham who Rooney spent six years with as an England team-mate.
The all-time leading Red Devils scorer joined United a year after Beckham departed for Real Madrid but the pair had already played together on the international stage in 2003 with Rooney making his Three Lions debut whilst at Everton.
Rooney opened up about the dinner experience he had in Beckham’s Spanish abode where he was joined by other England players, including Frank Lampard. Speaking on The Wayne Rooney show podcast for the BBC, he told Kelly Somers and Kae Kurd: “I remember years ago we got invited to Becks’ for dinner.
“It was me, Lamps [Frank Lampard] and couple more players. We went to his house, me and Coleen, we were only 19 or something. We were like, ‘this is weird, what’s happening here?’ Had a walk around and he’s showing us round his house and then I open a door and his eldest boy, [Brooklyn] I bumped his head and he started crying I thought, ‘oh Jesus Christ’.
“Opened the door and bumped his head. But yeah that was surreal and we sat there with Becks and Victoria having dinner, it was like…’ Somers chimed in and asked him: “What was dinner? Was it posh?”
To which the 39-year-old immediately shone a light on their down to earth nature as he answered: “No. We met up with Becks and Victoria, me and Coleen, when he was at Madrid and went for dinner then and we were having kebabs.”
Rooney then paid special mention to Victoria’s comical personality as he said: “He’s obviously a great lad and Victoria’s such a lovely woman and funny. A lot funnier than people would think.”
Beckham’s stint in Madrid lasted four years before he made the ground-breaking move to the MLS as he joined LA Galaxy. Seen as a shock move at the time, the ex-England captain’s decision paved the way for the likes of Lampard, Steven Gerrard and Ashley Cole to make the move to the States in the future.
He spent five-and-a-half years in Los Angeles and picked up back-to-back MLS Cup victories to end his tenure across the pond with Victoria again coming in for praise, this time by the son of ex-Galaxy star Carlos Pavon, Carlos Pavon Jr.
While the former striker spent just one season as Beckham’s team-mate, his son still maintains happy memories when hanging out with the Beckham family, including one specific moment at a birthday party.
“It was the birthday of one of his sons,” Pavon Jr said on the La Pelota Al DIEZ podcast. “They had a party in a giant park and there were inflatable trampolines and the whole team was there, his whole family was there.
“I was playing with his son on the inflatable trampoline and we were jumping, and then out of nowhere, I notice the kid’s mum comes in, David’s wife, Victoria.
“She started jumping with us and I was like, ‘I can’t believe I’m doing this with Victoria Beckham,’ so I think that was the funniest thing. Everybody saw when she came in and started jumping with us, so when I came out, I think they all saw my surprised face, like, ‘Wow, that just happened.’ It was really funny.”
