{"id":118466,"date":"2026-01-31T17:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T17:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/118466\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T17:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T17:33:18","slug":"brooklyn-beckhams-former-coach-says-star-struggled-to-fit-in-with-team-mates-due-to-his-crackers-life-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/118466\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Beckham\u2019s former coach says star struggled to fit in with team mates due to his \u2018crackers\u2019 life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:The Independent US;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"The Independent US\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"271\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ae90c5b0-7c98-11ed-befe-1be805a50c91.png\"\/><\/a>Updated Sat, January 31, 2026 at 4:05 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"795\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769880798_377_b1b551d65464d72afc5b3b0ff9340508.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/brooklyn-beckham\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Brooklyn Beckham;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Brooklyn Beckham<\/a>\u2019s former football coach said he was \u201cworried\u201d about him, as he confessed that the star struggled to fit in with teammates due to his \u201ccrackers\u201d life.<\/p>\n<p>In Beckham v Beckham: The Price Of Fame?, a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/itv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ITV;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">ITV<\/a> documentary analysing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/brooklyn-beckham-called-recipe-blunder-134028533.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:ongoing family feud,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ongoing family feud,<\/a> Anthony McCool, who coached him as a 14-year-old youth player at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/queens-park-rangers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Queens Park Rangers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Queens Park Rangers<\/a>, described Brooklyn as \u201cvery quiet\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing an anecdote where one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/david-beckham\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Beckhams\u2019;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Beckhams\u2019<\/a> security rushed out to buy Brooklyn a whole crate of Lucozade when the then 14-year-old turned up without a drink, McCool said the whole team burst out laughing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe probably thought everyone was laughing at him. And that\u2019s what made me quite sad.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Sat, January 31, 2026 at 4:05 PM UTC Brooklyn Beckham\u2019s former football coach said he was \u201cworried\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[52105,98,3247,100,99,52104,9,24,63,29138],"class_list":["post-118466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-anthony-mccool","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-beckham","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-football-coach","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens-park-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}