Confession. I’m a Manchester City fan. Another confession. Kevin De Bruyne is my favourite player. In 30 years of journalism, 🧾 I’ve never interviewed a City player. Don’t meet your heroes, they say. The whole thing is discombobulating. De Bruyne – 🧾 one of the world’s great players – has agreed to a rare interview. But there’s a caveat. If you talk 🧾 to me, he says, you also talk to my wife, my kids, you do it at our home and you 🧾 get to know us all. Usually, it’s the opposite – you don’t talk to my family, you don’t come to 🧾 my home, it’s all about the work rather than the private life. Strange.
We meet a few weeks before the start 🧾 of the World Cup. He’s beginning to think about it. But in typical De Bruyne fashion he dispenses with diplomacy 🧾 and tells it as it is. No, he’s not happy about it being in Qatar. Yes, it is a distraction 🧾 from the Premier League. No, he doesn’t think Belgium have much chance of winning.
Now he’s out there hoping to prove 🧾 himself wrong.
At his best on the pitch, virtually everything is channelled through him. Often he will start a move by 🧾 winning the ball and running with it in the same movement. Though he plays in the centre, he sets up 🧾 goals by overlapping on the wing to put in crosses of such pace, swerve and accuracy that they are impossible 🧾 to defend. And while goal-scoring isn’t his main thing (he prefers to assist), last season, when he scored four goals 🧾 against Wolves, commentator Alistair Mann quivered: “Kevin, stop it! I’m running out of superlatives for you!”
In 2024, De Bruyne became 🧾 the first City men’s player to win the prestigious PFA Player of the Year, and won it again the following 🧾 season. In September, he was named the world’s best passer in the video game Fifa 23. Earlier this month, the 🧾 game Football Manager 2024 ranked him the greatest player in the world.
De Bruyne doesn’t run with the football pack. We 🧾 never see him out getting into trouble. In fact, we pretty much never see him. Which makes today even stranger. 🧾 But it also makes a kind of sense. “Away from football, it’s all about family,” he says. “This is my 🧾 life.”
Michèle Lacroix, AKA Mrs De Bruyne, greets me at the door. She apologises for still being in her bathrobe, shows 🧾 me in and makes coffee. The house is everything you’d expect: huge driveway, extension the size of a small hotel, 🧾 artworks galore, carpets like quicksand. Coco, the white-grey cat, is so perfectly coordinated, you wonder whether she came with the 🧾 furnishings. Yet it’s also homely. Toys spill out of the playroom and De Bruyne’s office obviously doubled up as the 🧾 home-schoolroom in the pandemic (one wall is plastered with spelling tests).
De Bruyne is nowhere to be seen, so Lacroix introduces 🧾 me to Coco, the three children and her mother. We chat and drink, and it’s only after a while that 🧾 I realise De Bruyne is also now in the kitchen. He is wearing a brown tracksuit, has a wispy gingerish 🧾 beard and bears more than a passing resemblance to his cartoon compatriot Tintin. He glides through his house like a 🧾 ghost: if he hadn’t shaken my hand and introduced himself, I probably wouldn’t have registered his presence. He floats off 🧾 to the fridge, takes out slices of white Hovis, makes himself a mustard sandwich, heats up green soup and starts 🧾 eating. All without a murmur. De Bruyne is a paradox. He is both famously shy and famously outspoken. A number 🧾 of stories shape the mythology around him. The first is that at eight he turns to his father and says 🧾 he wants to leave his club, KVV Drongen, because the training sessions at Ghent, another local club, are better. Second, 🧾 now playing for Ghent, he gets so enraged when told off for not helping to clear up the pitch that 🧾 he grabs one of the posts and refuses to let go. Three adults try to pull him away but fail, 🧾 and his coach, Frank De Leyn, has to stay with him because De Bruyne tells him he is planning to 🧾 hold on all night.
I compare my pay to a singer at a concert. Yeah, it’s a lot of money, but 🧾 is it too much? It’s not a popular answer, but no
Fast forward a few years for another classic tale: De 🧾 Bruyne is on the verge of the first team at rival Belgian club Genk, living there with a foster family 🧾 during the week, when they decide, two years in, that they don’t want him to live with them any more 🧾 because he doesn’t fit in; he’s too quiet. Finally, there is the time, aged just 20, when he gives a 🧾 half-time interview ripping into his Genk teammates for shirking: “I’m ashamed of them. I suggest that those who don’t have 🧾 a desire to play just leave,” he says at the time.
His management team are also here today and he’s talking 🧾 to them in a quiet, flat voice. It’s so understated you almost tune out. Then you hear what he’s saying. 🧾 Asked if Belgium can win the World Cup, he says, “No chance, we’re too old.” It’s only seven months ago 🧾 that Belgium were ranked No 1 in the world. De Bruyne says that because the tournament is being played in 🧾 Qatar in mid-season, it doesn’t feel like a real World Cup. One of his reps says it must be a 🧾 dream playing with Erling Haaland, the extraordinarily prolific striker at City. “Ach, it’s like any forward.” Even he thinks his 🧾 response is underwhelming. “He is so quick, though,” he adds.
He finishes his soup, cuts up some blackberries and grapes for 🧾 baby Suri, who is sitting in her highchair having her hair primped for the photoshoot. He says his childhood was 🧾 so different from that of his children. His father worked in a factory painting trains, his mother was a housewife, 🧾 and he describes his background as “lower-middle class”. What was he like at school? “I was OK. Smart enough to 🧾 know how much I needed to do and to finish it. I left at 18 with a diploma.”
I ask why 🧾 so many European footballers seem better educated than their British counterparts. Perhaps the difference is languages, he says. “There are 🧾 a lot of people from different countries who speak two or three languages, where English players usually only speak English. 🧾 I come from a country where by 13 you are studying Dutch, French and English.” With languages, perhaps comes wisdom 🧾 and humility – an ability to put yourself in the shoes of others, a knowledge that your way is not 🧾 the only way. He smiles. The Belgian way was never going to be the only way, he says. “Everybody in 🧾 Belgium always watches English TV anyway!”
I tell him I recently watched footage of him playing as a young boy and 🧾 his style has hardly changed. Even if you blocked out his face, it could only be De Bruyne. “I know!” 🧾 He takes out his phone and compares two photographs. “This is from a couple of months ago when I scored 🧾 against Bournemouth. Look at the way I kick the ball. And this is a picture of me shooting when I 🧾 was a kid. Identical! Same technique!”
Taking on Wales in the Uefa Nations League in September. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters
Are Mason, six, 🧾 and Rome, almost four, promising footballers? “No,” he says. “They don’t play.” Are they not interested? “I don’t know,” he 🧾 says, as if he’s never considered it. “They like to go to the football. My oldest plays piano a bit 🧾 and likes to run. He’s a good runner.”
I ask about the famous stories. Did you really cling to the goalpost 🧾 and refuse to budge? “I think the stories are a bit made up.” So it’s not true? “I don’t remember 🧾 it. It could be true!” Does it sound like him ? He grins. “I was a little bit stubborn, yeah. 🧾 I let most things go, but when I do say something I am outspoken. I know now when you speak 🧾 as a teenager or a kid to an adult with an opinion, people don’t like it … even if it’s 🧾 true.”
Was that the case when you suggested your Genk teammates were not trying? De Bruyne pinkens. He often flushes like 🧾 this – when he’s embarrassed, when he’s upset on the pitch and when he’s made one of his superhuman runs. 🧾 “Yes! The problem is the fans like that and other people like that, but the team doesn’t.”
A hairdresser is here 🧾 to give everyone a trim before the photoshoot. While it’s De Bruyne’s turn, I chat to Lacroix. She’s a model, 🧾 a social influencer (with more than 350,000 Instagram followers) and she recently started a Flemish podcast called Secret Society with 🧾 a few Belgian girlfriends. Her parents are physiotherapists and she wanted to be a doctor when she was at school. 🧾 “I never thought my life would look like this. Getting a degree was my main goal then.” When she was 🧾 17 and De Bruyne was 21, they started dating. Apart from it being her husband’s career, she has no interest 🧾 in football and certainly had no ambition to be a footballer’s wife. Can she see what makes him a special 🧾 player? “I don’t know a lot about football, but I think he sees things before the others maybe. He’s always 🧾 one step ahead?”
She’s encouraging Suri to finish her fruit. “Everyone thinks she’s called Surrey,” she says. “‘Ello, Surrey!’” She does 🧾 a good impression of a cockney. Rome is building a racetrack on his mini computer. He shows me how to 🧾 do it, but I can’t keep up. Mason asks for a go of my tape recorder. “I’m going to interview 🧾 you. What’s it like working for media? What’s your favourite colour?”
De Bruyne emerges from his haircut looking pleased with himself. 🧾 “I’m like 24 now! I could be a model!” We head back into his office and he and Lacroix sit 🧾 together on the sofa. I ask her how life has changed since they got together. For starters, she says, they 🧾 weren’t living anywhere like here. Back then he was just making a name for himself and they could pretty much 🧾 do what they wanted socially. “Football-wise, it’s got better and better. But then we could do more normal stuff. On 🧾 a city trip, say, maybe two or three people would come up to us. Now we’re more isolated. So you 🧾 do more things at home with friends. Kevin has grown more open because we’re in such an intimate circle, always 🧾 with the same group. He’s more comfortable with who he is.”
“I’m more open-minded to life,” De Bruyne says. “When I 🧾 was younger, it was just football. Now I have a family, life is different.” In fact, he says, it’s remarkably 🧾 similar to many other working people – he drops the kids off on his way to work, trains, comes home, 🧾 family meal with the kids, helps with the homework, watches telly.
Because I’m a foreigner living here, I’m still OK. When 🧾 you’re an English player, the attention flows from everywhere
He admits there is one way their life is noticeably different from 🧾 the rest of ours – they spend more money on stuff. This is partly because they can and partly because 🧾 they pay extra to buy their privacy. “We have to live our life in a more secluded way. Often, if 🧾 we go on a tour it will be a private tour, and most of the time this stuff is more 🧾 expensive and more individual.”
Lacroix says this is not a choice. When she and the kids go out without De Bruyne, 🧾 they can do whatever they want. But with him it’s a different story. “Yesterday we thought we’d try going to 🧾 the fair and Kevin made at least 100 pictures. Maybe 150. And the kids had to wait all the time, 🧾 and it wasn’t enjoyable for them. At one point security came up and we thought they’d help, then they said, 🧾 ‘Can we have a picture?’” She laughs.
She’s not asking for sympathy, she says. In so many ways it’s a wonderful, 🧾 privileged life. But it isn’t without problems. “When I’ve been driving to the club lately,” De Bruyne says, “there have 🧾 been people driving next to me and filming. People have followed me.”
After games, Lacroix adds, “People just jump in front 🧾 of the car so you can’t drive. Then the one next to them goes for a picture so you can’t 🧾 go anywhere.”
Top footballers get paid ludicrous salaries and are idolised by their supporters. De Bruyne is City’s best-paid player, earning 🧾 an estimated £385,000 a week – £20m a year. In 2024, he cut ties with his long-term agent, Patrick De 🧾 Koster, after he was arrested on suspicion of fraud. The investigation was reportedly triggered by complaints from De Bruyne himself. 🧾 Last year, he negotiated his own contract extension using data analysts to prove his worth to the club.
All the money 🧾 and worship must change you, I say. “I don’t necessarily think it’s the money, it’s the attention. If you go 🧾 from no attention to wherever you go people give you attention, then that changes you. You either take everything in 🧾 or block everything out. Some people like all the attention, but after a while it becomes so much you get 🧾 eaten up by it. Then if you push it out you seem arrogant. It’s a thin line you have to 🧾 walk.”
In terms of attention, he says, it’s harder for the top English players: “Because I’m a foreigner living here, I’m 🧾 still OK. When you’re an English player, the attention flows from everywhere. It would be too much for me.”
‘Elite sport 🧾 is brutal.’ Photograph: David Yeo/The Guardian
Does he think he gets paid too much? “No. I compare it to a singer 🧾 at a concert and 60,000 people come. I look at it logically. There are millions of people watching the football 🧾 on TV, there’s 60,000 watching the games, the income of a club is £500-£600m. Yeah, it’s a lot of money, 🧾 but is it too much? If the club can afford it, it’s not too much. It’s not a popular answer, 🧾 but that’s how I see it.”
How hard is it for them to relate to people struggling with the cost of 🧾 living crisis? “We are really close to our family and friends, and most of them have normal jobs, so we 🧾 know the struggles,” Lacroix says.
She looks at De Bruyne and asks him to translate an expression. “We stay with our 🧾 feet on the ground,” he says. “It’s easier for us to understand, but it will be harder for the kids 🧾 because they’re used to a certain lifestyle. They go to a private school and there are people from similar backgrounds. 🧾 They understand when we go to see our families it’s different types of houses and another lifestyle.” It worries him: 🧾 “We’ll try, but it cannot be the same as when we grew up. It’s not possible.”
When he was a child, 🧾 he says, his parents didn’t have much, but it was plenty: “We had what we needed; a nice garden.” Does 🧾 he have siblings? “One sister. She did trampoline and was pretty good at it. But she didn’t have the character 🧾 to go on like I did.”
So many promising footballers fall by the wayside. Fewer than 0.5% of the kids in 🧾 English academies at the age of nine make it as professionals at any level. So what is character? “It’s will. 🧾 It’s saying no to fun stuff. At 17, 18, a new social life is beginning, people are going out, having 🧾 fun with friends, and you have to say no.” That must be hard? “It is, and that’s why many people 🧾 fall down at that stage. You have to become an adult quickly in football. When you start playing with the 🧾 first team, you’re living with 30-, 35-year-olds; people with kids. It’s not easy and you need to learn that quickly, 🧾 because if you don’t, you fall out. Elite sport is brutal.”
Did he find it tough as a teen? “Yes. I 🧾 also missed part of my life because I went away from 14. We’d play on a Saturday, then I would 🧾 go home to see my parents and on Sunday evening I’d travel back. So I missed the whole social part 🧾 of my life.” Was he jealous of his friends? “Not at that time. Maybe afterwards. Later, when you experience things, 🧾 you think perhaps it would have been fun to be doing this when everybody else was.”
It was his decision to 🧾 leave home at 14: he was desperate to play football, and his parents were supportive.
I ask if the story about 🧾 being dumped by his foster family is true. “Yes,” he says. “There were three of us and the other two 🧾 were more sociable. At summer break I said bye to the family and went home. Then my parents told me, 🧾 you’re not going back, they don’t want you any more.” He says the foster family never said anything directly, but 🧾 told his parents they didn’t want him because he was too quiet, too difficult, a teenager who didn’t fit in. 🧾 To add insult to injury, Genk told him he had to go to boarding school instead. In Belgium, boarding schools 🧾 are more for problematic than privileged students. “I really didn’t want to do it.”
Did that rejection make him question his 🧾 character? “No. I thought I’m going to push more and show them. I said to my parents, I will do 🧾 good, you’ll see. I’ll be in the first team quickly, then everything will change.”
There is a YouTube film about De 🧾 Bruyne that depicts his life as a triumph over tragedy. “Right from the beginning he was abandoned by his foster 🧾 family,” it says. “And still life didn’t stop hitting him with tragedy after tragedy.” It goes on to document how 🧾 the 20-year-old signed for Chelsea in a £7m deal and played only three Premier League games before being sold as 🧾 a flop.
Celebrating a hat-trick against Wolverhampton in May. Photograph: Nick Potts/PA
Has he seen the film? “No.” In the film, it 🧾 mentions a match in which he came on as a half-time substitute and scored five goals. Every goal, it says, 🧾 was a way of answering the foster family: “One goal, they don’t want you any more. Two goals, too quiet. 🧾 Three goals, too difficult. Four goals, they don’t want you any more. Five goals, because of who you are.” When 🧾 I describe this, he turns a pinker shade of pink. “That’s not true. I don’t know who said that, but 🧾 it’s not true. I find that a little bit embarrassing, to be fair.” Now he’s laughing. “My life wasn’t that 🧾 bad, to be honest!”
De Bruyne says too much was made of his time at Chelsea when he left, and too 🧾 much was made when he returned to the Premier League a couple of years later with Manchester City. “When I 🧾 came here people said, ‘Chelsea reject.’ No, I was just a young boy who didn’t play and was there for 🧾 six months. I was really young.”
Leaving Chelsea was the making of him. He signed for Bundesliga club Wolfsburg in 2014 🧾 for £18m, ended the 2014-15 season with 16 goals and 27 assists in all competitions and was named Germany’s footballer 🧾 of the year. In August 2024, Manchester City signed him for £55m. Those who remembered his unhappy time at Chelsea 🧾 couldn’t believe how much City paid for him. Former Liverpool player Phil Thompson said: “The world is going mad. The 🧾 amount of money they’re paying for this boy is just absolutely bonkers.” But it turned out to be a bargain. 🧾 In four of his seven seasons, he has been voted player of the season, and City have won the Premier 🧾 League four of the past five seasons. In 2024-18 they became the first (and still only) club to get 100 🧾 points in a season and the following season won an unprecedented clean sweep of domestic trophies.
Eight months after De Bruyne 🧾 arrived at City, Pep Guardiola became manager. It was the catalyst for the club’s greatest run in its history. For 🧾 most of my life as a City fan, I was used to nothing but failure; between 1976 and 2011 the 🧾 club didn’t win a trophy. Thanks to huge investment from its UAE owners, the signing of great players and arguably 🧾 the best manager in the world, City have dominated the Premier League for the past decade.
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‘When I was younger, it was just football. Now I 🧾 have a family, life is different.’ Photograph: David Yeo/The Guardian. Styling: Bemi Shaw
As supporters, I say, we love everything our 🧾 owners have done for the club, but some/many of us do worry about the UAE’s human rights record. Does it 🧾 bother him? “Honestly, I don’t know too much about that. All I can say is when we speak to people 🧾 from the Emirates, they’re all really good and polite. I can only speak highly of them, especially Khaldoon [chairman Khaldoon 🧾 al-Mubarak]. You speak to him and he’s a normal person.”
I ask Lacroix if De Bruyne finds it easy to turn 🧾 off from football. “Yes. He comes home and it’s like, ‘Oh my God, I need a break’, so he’ll watch 🧾 NBA or Formula One. If he’s injured and City plays, me and the kids just leave him alone in front 🧾 of the television, because when something goes wrong he shouts. I’m like, nothing is going to change, then he shouts 🧾 at us, and I’m like, OK, let him just watch the game, and after he’s like, sorry!”
De Bruyne has never 🧾 been sent off for City. But there is a famous clip of him losing it with his teammates at the 🧾 end of a Champions League match against Napoli in 2024 when he wants to confront the referee. De Bruyne, at 🧾 his pinkest, shouts “Let me talk” five times. Every time his voice gets louder and more high-pitched. In the end, 🧾 he sees sense and walks away.
I ask Lacroix to do an impression of him getting angry. “One time when he 🧾 was injured he threw a bottle of water on the floor with full strength. He couldn’t walk but still managed 🧾 to get up to the television to shout at it.”
“I just want my team to win,” De Bruyne says meekly.
Suddenly 🧾 the door bursts open and Spider-Man flies into the room. He removes his head gear, and it’s Mason. “Are you 🧾 going to answer questions?” Lacroix asks. “No,” Mason says. Is it true you’re more interested in playing piano than football, 🧾 I ask. “Yes,” he says.
Despite City’s domestic success, they have yet to win the Champions League, the most prestigious club 🧾 tournament in Europe. How important does De Bruyne think it is? “I don’t think it’s that important. It would be 🧾 nice, but I think it’s more from the outside. It’s a stick people can beat City with. ‘Oh, you’ve done 🧾 this but you haven’t done this.’ OK, but we’ve still done really good.”
Who are his best friends at City? “I 🧾 would say probably Kyle Walker and Nathan Aké.” That’s surprising, I say. Walker seems quite different from you. (Walker was 🧾 splashed across the front pages of the tabloids after hosting a party with sex workers during lockdown.) “Not really,” De 🧾 Bruyne says. Is that the media? “I don’t know about media. Obviously there have been issues in the past for 🧾 him. But from day one I have been close to Kyle and he has three kids and they play with 🧾 my kids.”
With Kyle Walker and the Premier League trophy, May 2024. Photograph: Peter Powell/AFP/Getty Images
I ask about Belgium’s chances in 🧾 Qatar, wondering if he’ll be more diplomatic this time. But he’s not. “I think our chance was 2024. We have 🧾 a good team, but it is ageing. We lost some key players. We have some good new players coming, but 🧾 they are not at the level other players were in 2024. I see us more as outsiders.”
De Bruyne, at 31, 🧾 is at his peak. It’s hard to imagine him playing with such pace for much longer. Does he feel it’s 🧾 getting tougher?
“I am fully able to do what I need to do, but I feel the difference compared with eight 🧾 years ago. I need more treatment, more rest.”
“When he was younger, the day after a game he’d be like, ‘We 🧾 can go and play tennis,’” Lacroix says. “Now the day after he’s like, ‘I need to rest. My body hurts.’”
Lacroix 🧾 says football has brought her the lifestyle she dreamed of. The only difference is she had always imagined she would 🧾 make her own money. What’s the worst thing about being a footballer’s wife? Often she feels like a single parent, 🧾 she says. “For example, Kevin has never been to one school nativity. I’m always the parent on their own. It’s 🧾 rare he can go to something for them. Two of the kids are at school, so we only have weekends 🧾 to do things with them, but Kevin is playing then. It makes it harder to do stuff together as a 🧾 family. Kevin always says now we need to be disciplined for football and later we can enjoy everything together.”
Does she 🧾 think when he retires that will be her time to pursue her dreams? “That’s what everyone keeps saying. But I 🧾 don’t think so now. I’m devoted to being with the kids, and I’ve just started the podcast.”
Kevin giving up football 🧾 wouldn’t happen. When Covid began he was running round the sofa. I couldn’t cope with him at home
“She’s the glue,” 🧾 he says out of nowhere. Then he looks embarrassed. “I don’t want to say that because tonight she’ll say, ‘My 🧾 God, look what you’ve said.’”
Lacroix: “No, I don’t do that. I do not.”
“Yes, you would,” he says. “If I said 🧾 you were the glue to the family, you’d say, ‘Remember you said that.’”
Do you mean Michèle would use it against 🧾 you?
Lacroix: “Noooooooo.”
De Bruyne: “Of course!”
Lacroix: “He’s making it up!”
They seem to have a lovely relationship.
I ask if he is planning 🧾 for life after playing? She looks at him, curious to hear the answer: “He gets annoyed when I ask about 🧾 it. ‘I’m still playing!’”
De Bruyne: “Not really.”
Lacroix: “You do a bit.”
De Bruyne: “Well, I do things to advance the future. 🧾 I’ve got my Uefa A and B coaching qualification already.”
Does he think he’ll stay in football?
De Bruyne: “Probably, yes.”
Lacroix: “100%. 🧾 Kevin loves football way too much to not be in it. He should because it’s in his heart as well.”
But 🧾 he could simply retire, live a life of luxury, make up for lost time on the self-indulgence and dossing front.
“It 🧾 would never happen,” Lacroix says. “Give him one month, then he would be annoyed. When Covid started he was running 🧾 around the sofa. I couldn’t cope with him at home.”
They go to have their photos taken. I stay in the 🧾 office staring at his platoon of man of the match awards. I pop in to see how the shoot is 🧾 going. De Bruyne is trying to juggle all three children in his arms and I’m worried he may get injured. 🧾 I’m not sure Pep would be happy.
On the way out, I tell him that at away matches my daughter Maya 🧾 and I get into the ground early when it’s almost empty and shout for waves from the players when they 🧾 come out to warm up. Nearly all have given us waves, but never De Bruyne. You’re so intensely focused? “I 🧾 think so, yes. I’m very different on the pitch to when I’m here. Once I’m playing football it’s a different 🧾 zone. Then when I’ve finished, the game is done.”
For many years, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo were the undisputed two 🧾 best players in the world. But things are changing. In August, De Bruyne was runner-up in the Uefa Men’s Player 🧾 of the Year award, won by another oldie, Karim Benzema. How important is it to be regarded as one of 🧾 the best in the world? The quiet, diffident De Bruyne looks at me with magnificent imperiousness. “It’s not important to 🧾 be regarded as one of the best,” he says. “I want to be the best.”
The next few weeks with Belgium 🧾 at the World Cup will provide the perfect stage for him to prove that he is.
