Ace striker Wayne Rooney has enrolled his 16-month-old son in soccer school in the bid to mould him into the next big football star. Has Rooney gone Looney? We find out

Should you teach your child how to swim, before he learns how to walk? Or how to kick a ball, before he even knows what a goal is? Manchester United superstar striker Wayne Rooney certainly seems to think so, as he has enrolled his 16-month-old son, Kai, in SocaTots, a soccer school to ensure his football skills are honed in from an early age.


Manchester United's English forward Wayne Rooney holds his son, Kai,
after the English Premier League football match between Man U and
Stoke City at Old Trafford in Manchester, last year. Pic/ AFP

Do city parents approve of taking a career goal to such levels? "I recently read somewhere that in Australia, kids as young as six months are enrolled in swimming classes," says to-be mom Ruchi Mehta (30).