Brooklyn Beckham’s Former Coach Says He Saw a ‘Bizarre,’ and ‘Strange Family Dynamic’
Although rumors of a feud between Brooklyn Beckham and his parents, David and Victoria Beckham, have been swirling for years, fans were still taken aback when Brooklyn issued a statement via his Instagram Stories about the cause of their rift.
According to the eldest Beckham child, “I have been silent for years and made every effort to keep these matters private. Unfortunately, my parents and their team have continued to go to the press, leaving me with no choice but to speak for myself and tell the truth about only some of the lies that have been printed. I do not want to reconcile with my family.”
He then claimed that his mother’s actions at his wedding in 2022 upset him and his bride, Nicola Peltz, writing, “My mum hijacked my first dance with my wife, which had been planned weeks in advance to a romantic love song. In front of our 500 wedding guests, Marc Anthony called me to the stage, where in the schedule was planned to be my romantic dance with my wife but instead my mum was waiting to dance with me instead. She danced very inappropriately on me in front of everyone. I’ve never felt more uncomfortable or humiliated in my entire life.”
Brooklyn also said that he and Peltz had planned to attend his father’s 50th birthday in May 2025, posting, “For my dad’s birthday were rejected for a week as we waited in our hotel room trying to plan quality time with him. He refused all of our attempts, unless it was at his big birthday party with a hundred guests and cameras at every corner. When he finally agreed to see me, it was under the condition that Nicola wasn’t invited. It was a slap in the face.”
Since Brooklyn went public, a few people who know or have worked for the family have been taking sides. Now someone who used to coach Brooklyn is sharing thoughts on what they saw and found “bizarre” and “on another level” with the Beckhams.
Former soccer coach Anthony McCool, who coached Brooklyn when he was an adolescent, discussed the “family dynamic” he witnessed.
“Brooklyn Beckham getting piled on. But I felt sorry for the lad,” McCool said (per Express). “I did see some bizarre carry on as his football coach at QPR and [I have] certainly seen the anxiety. He might have got this situation wrong. I’m not on either side because I don’t know them and his parents were always polite to me. But I did witness myself a strange dynamic which is impossible for us to judge and predict how we would navigate it, both as parents and as a young person.
“My brief glimpse into that world provided me with some amusing anecdotes, alongside some melancholy ones, and I recognized how challenging it must have been for the youngster. Yet I had coached numerous boys from celebrity families, predominantly well-known footballers. But this experience was on another serious level.”
McCool added, “What it did do was open my eyes. Being super wealthy and famous isn’t an automatic ticket to happiness. It’s hard to sympathize or empathize because most of us will never know. But being flanked by permanent security at 14, plus the many other things I seen made me realize I shouldn’t judge because I haven’t walked a mile in [those] shoes, or his parents to be fair. I am sure they will close ranks and resolve their differences. I hope so.”
