WAYNE ROONEY’S youngest son has to take old Match Attax cards into school to prove to his classmates that his dad was once a famous footballer.

Manchester United’s all-time top scorer, 38, was sacked by Birmingham on Tuesday after just 15 games in the job.

Wayne Rooney’s youngest son Cass, sat in front of Coleen in the photo above, took a Match Attax card of his dad in to prove he was a footballer

Rooney is Manchester United’s all-time top scorer

Rooney has also coached Derby and DC United since retiring from playing in January 2021.

But wife Coleen has now revealed their children’s friends have no idea who he is.

She then went on to explain how five-year-old son Cass had to bring in an old Match Attax card for kids to realise Rooney was a footballer.

Coleen told the Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast: “Obviously, if you’re in the public eye, you do get pecked a lot at parties and in spaces where they will ask you questions, they’ll ask your opinion on stuff.

“Kids, they haven’t got a clue.

“Wayne nowadays, he goes to the school and because he’s not playing anymore none of the younger kids know who he is.

“He’s not important.

“And my youngest took a Match Attax card in and it was an old one of Wayne and he said ‘my friend didn’t know my dad used to play football’.

“It’s refreshing.”

The couple have four children – Kai, 13, Klay, ten, Kit, seven, and Cass, five.

Rooney is widely considered one of England’s greatest ever players.

Once the world’s most expensive teenager when he moved to Man Utd, Rooney went on to become a club legend as their all-time leading scorer with 253 goals.

Up until this year, the forward—who has the most caps of any outfield player for his country—held the record for the most goals scored by England, with 53.

However, he left the Premier League in 2018 to play in the US.

And after just two wins in 15 games as Birmingham’s Blues boss, he grabbed headlines on Tuesday for all the wrong reasons.

The Championship squad was ranked sixth when he assumed leadership, but they are currently ranked twenty-first, just six points above the relegation zone.