Victoria and David Beckham Recall Kidnapping Threats After Brooklyn’s Delivery—All Due to a Soccer Match

Soccer followers are so chill, ? You’ve got by no means met a calmer group of individuals! In 1999 yr, when David Beckham welcomed his first little one with soon-to-be spouse Victoria, he had additionally just lately gotten a purple card within the 1998 World Cup match in opposition to Argentina, an occasion that made everybody in England go, “ugh, that is disappointing, however it in the end would not affect my life in any possible way, now let’s go hang around with Paddington.”

Besides they did not! As recounted within the new Netflix docuseries on Becks’s profession, Beckham, the nation misplaced its thoughts with hatred and the younger household received precise kidnapping and demise threats. Because the footballer himself recounts, “The second [Brooklyn] got here out, I all of the sudden thought, ‘How am I going to guard him? What am I going to do to guard him?’”

The evening Brooklyn of Brooklyn’s beginning, David provides, the new child slept subsequent to Victoria. “Victoria was like, ‘Come and squeeze on the mattress with me,’ and I used to be like, ‘completely not. I’m sleeping with my head in opposition to the door.’ As a result of I used to be paranoid that somebody was gonna steal him,” the footballer says. “You realize it’s meant to be a cheerful second. And it was a cheerful second, after all. However I used to be fearful. I didn’t need him to come back into this life at a time the place I used to be going by means of what I used to be going by means of. However when there was kidnap threats, that’s when it received scary.”