The former United star could easily put his overweight down to work stress, but his chroniclers have given him that he was still reeling from fast food delicacies and fine whiskey
“Back in the day, I had baked beans on toast for breakfast, and for important matches I prepared with a McDonald’s menu.” Then I would go into the steam room and in no time I would get rid of the extra kilos,” said Wayne Rooney recently. In recent months, the legendary naked player of “Manchester United” has apparently completely diluted his visits to the sauna at the expense of his visits to fast food restaurants. Islander fans flooded social media with comments about the appearance of the former international, who has piled a record amount of pounds on his shoulders. And it’s not just that. The great scorer is too red-faced, as if he has just escaped from a rehab clinic for inveterate alcoholics.
Rooney himself would easily justify his overweight with problems at work. Or at least while there was one.
On New Year’s Eve, Plymouth bosses fired him
because of the shameful performance of the second division team. Under the “skilled” leadership of the football legend, “Plymouth” achieved only 4 victories in 23 matches and confidently anchored in the last place in the Championship.
Wayne also has bad memories of his performances as a manager in the American “DC United”, and his stay in “Birmingham” turned into a real nightmare and he stayed only 83 days in the coaching post. A series of noisy failures means high levels of stress, and these, in turn, often become the cause of changes in a person’s psyche and physique. In such stressful days, every second person will seek solace in beer binges or in night-time parties with ice cream.
Rooney did turn to junk food, but it was long before he even thought he could be a manager. In his happiest years as a Manchester United player, he munched on the noxious sandwiches he pushed down his stomach with sugary fizzy drinks. From the outset, the lad at the time suggested to team-mates and even Sir Alex Ferguson that he had no intention of submitting 365 days a year to the torture devised by those responsible for the fitness of football superstars. And even begins to follow his own rules of eating and behavior off the field. They are extremely simple – Wayne would walk into the wee hours of the night and eat what he wanted and when he wanted. And then he made a mess of opposing defenders, scored amazing goals and lifted prestigious trophies over his head. Rooney himself recently told how he returned from holiday one summer with an extra seven kilos lodged in his embarrassingly bulging belly. The coaching staff of “United” roared to death, but the fat football player reassured them that he would fix the job in less than three days. Then one of English football’s greatest goalscorers moved the ergometer into the steam room, put on the thick training tracksuit, inflated the degrees and began to pedal. The cruel test for the body gave the necessary result and
Rooney is back in top form ahead of his team’s first game
After the end of his professional career, however, he decided that such tests were dangerous to his health and stopped sweating in the steam room, which instantly affected his figure. Already in 2022. the already bulky ex-footballer became the subject of ridicule after paparazzi snapped his trousers, which were fastened with shoelaces instead of a belt. It was widely commented at the time that Rooney had not thought to drill extra holes in the belt and had therefore resorted to improvised means. A little later, his wife also exposed him, after admitting that she bought him new suits, because the old ones were too tight for him. The great goalscorer didn’t hold a grudge against the woman who bore him with 4 children and wore the suit during his mate’s legal battles with Jamie Vardy’s wife. Coleen Rooney accused Rebecca Vardy of leaking secrets from her private life to the British tabloids, a
their Mahlen quarrel genuinely entertained the audience
By this time, Wayne had already gained considerable weight, and over the next two years, things seemed to spiral out of control. It is commented on the Island that not only gluttony, but also bad genes are to blame for his disturbing appearance. His parents have always suffered from excess weight, which in no way restricted them from eating whatever they liked. In this regard, Alex Ferguson once admitted that he had a habit of looking at current photos of the parents of an aging star he had targeted for United. That’s exactly how Sir Alex first assesses how the father of 30-year-old Teddy Sheringham is in shape and only then signs the footballer. It turns out the father hasn’t put on an ounce of fat as he moves through middle age, which convinces the Scottish manager that his son won’t gain weight during his time at Old Trafford either. And so it happened
Teddy played for the “Red Devils”
and although he did not cross paths with Rooney in the dressing room, he later advised him in the media not to emphasize drinking and smoking because it would ruin his career.
Wayne clearly possessed so much talent that the vices failed to fail him, but now even greater dangers await him. It is no longer the first youth, and the problems of excess weight cannot be solved, as it once was. And the blush on the cheeks is not from the cold weather outside, and rather resembles that coloring which men of well-established drunken habits get. Rooney is an old dog and should have guessed on his own that there is no more room for him to expand in his suits. After all, in the war on fat, there is no one to save you if you don’t help yourself.