Brooklyn Beckham has revealed he decided to give up playing football after realising it would be ‘difficult’ to live up to his father David.

The budding chef, 23, previoiusly played in Arsenal’s youth academy but decided to give up the sport when the club released him at 16.

Speaking to Variety, Brooklyn said his father ‘wasn’t sad’ to see him give up the sport, despite it being his ‘life’ from a young age.

Candid: Brooklyn Beckham has revealed he decided to give up playing football after realising it would be ‘difficult’ to live up to his father David (pictured together in 2019)

He said: ‘My dad wasn’t sad, because he was like, “I just want you to be happy.” But of course I was sad. It was my whole life since I was literally two.

‘To try and live up to what my dad did in football, I was just like, “that’s going to be a bit difficult.” ‘

David, 47, has been hailed as one of the greatest midfielders of his generation and won 19 major trophies throughout his 20-year football career.

Brooklyn’s brother Romeo, 19, has carried on with a football career and is currently playing for Inter Miami FC, which his father owns.

Career: David has been hailed as one of the greatest midfielders of his generation and won 19 major trophies throughout his 20-year football career (David pictured in 1993)

Since parting ways with the sport, Brooklyn has ventured into other areas including photography which he studied in New York’s Parsons School Of Design.

He later parted ways with this career and is now focusing his energies on cooking, saying he hopes to open an English-style pub in Los Angeles one day.

He said: ‘I really enjoyed it for a couple of years. I love taking pictures of my wife. I still have all my film cameras, but now it’s just more of a fun thing to do. They were kind of all hobbies. I was still trying to find that one thing I would literally die for, and I found that with cooking.’

Brooklyn, said he would love to serve ‘a healthier version of comfort food’ and that a pub could be the subject of a TV show, he also revealed he’s planning to launch a new sauce product later this year.

Family: Brooklyn previoiusly played in Arsenal’s youth academy but decided to give up the sport when the club released him at 16 (pictured in 2015)

Brooklyn said: ‘To try and live up to what my dad did in football, I was just like, that’s going to be a bit difficult’

Brooklyn Beckham and wife Nicola Peltz cosy up at Met Gala 2022

Brooklyn, whose own parents are one of the most influential pairings in the world, said he and new bride Nicola Peltz, 27, would love to do a reality show to show the dynamic of their relationship.

He said: ‘I’ve always said to my wife, we should actually do a reality TV show, because she’s so funny,’ Peltz Beckham says. ‘And we take the p**s out of each other all the time. She sometimes doesn’t get my English humour.’

This would be following in the footsteps of his mother Victoria, 48, who famously appeared in 2007 documentary, Coming To America.

Elsewhere during the interview, Brooklyn said he now spends the majority of his time in Los Angeles.

He and Nicola are also thought to spend considerable time in Miami where her family lives, while the Beckhams are still based mostly in the UK.

Delicious: Brooklyn, who briefly attended New York’s Parson’s School of Design to study photography, is now learning to be a chef and frequently shares cooking videos for adoring fans