Cruz Beckham Had ‘No Idea’ Dad David was ‘So Good’ at Soccer Before Watching Documentary, Victoria Says

Cruz Beckham learned a thing or two about his father David Beckham’s talents thanks to Netflix’s docu-series about the soccer legend’s glory days.

In an interview published on Thursday, Victoria Beckham said Allure about her 18-year-old daughter’s reaction to Beckham.

“Cruz, our youngest son, said, ‘Wow, I had no idea dad was so good at soccer,'” the former pop star, 49, said with a smile, adding, “It made me laugh when I remembered the screen: ‘Wife David Beckham.’ Brilliant.”

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The four-part documentary takes viewers on a journey through time to discover how the former Manchester United FC star, 48, rose to fame as one of the greatest athletes the sport has ever seen.

David Beckham Manchester United, 2003.

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Surprisingly, in an October interview with PEOPLE, documentary filmmaker Fisher Stevens, a self-proclaimed football fan, admitted that, like Cruz, he didn’t realize how big David was at first.

It wasn’t until Stevens began compiling the recordings that he gained an even greater respect for the star.

“I started digging around, and then I met with him and I said, basically, ‘You were really good,’” Stevens told PEOPLE.

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“He was not at all what I expected. He was so open. He’s like, I’m ready. I want to tell my story before anyone else. And then I started doing research and I was like, ‘Jesus, this guy’s life is crazy. Walnuts.’ I had no idea. And then when I met him and Victoria, I was like, oh my God, they’re going to have fun. They will be good. They’re going to be fun and they’re going to be hard and they’re going to be great,” the director continued.

And as the “Spice Up Your Life” singer told. Alluremany viewers also saw the family in a different light after the release of the documentary.

The Beckham family and friends at the Netflix premiere.

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Victoria mentioned a recent interaction with a group of young girls in a restaurant where one of them slipped her a note that read: “’We were watching a documentary. You are indeed welcome.’”

She also recalled another recent encounter with an anonymous doubter-turned-fan.

“One evening David and I drove to our house in the country and went to the local pub,” she said. When they got back to their car, “someone put a note under the windscreen: ‘Dear Posh and Becks, on behalf of all British football fans, we’re sorry.’ David joked: ‘We need to go out and drink this more often’.”

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Beckham also includes the story of how the Inter Miami co-owner and the Spice Girl met.

The couple met at a soccer game in 1997 and married two years later.

“That first time I talked to her, I just loved her,” David explained on the show, recalling the time before they started dating. While telling her side of their love story, Victoria shared: “The fact that I went to the games was just kind of… some would say I was stalking him.”

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