Phil Foden, 23, and girlfriend Rebecca Cooke are expecting third child-Kitty Chrisp-Entertainment – Metro

Congratulations are in order as Phil Foden and Rebecca Cooke are expecting their third child (Picture: Marc Atkins/Getty Images)

Footballer Phil Foden and his girlfriend Rebecca Cooke have announced they are expecting their third child together.

The Manchester City star, 23, and his childhood sweetheart Rebecca, thought to be 22, announced the happy news on their Instagram page with photos of their lavish baby shower.

England squad regular Phil and Rebecca are already parents to five-year-old son Ronnie and one-year-old daughter, True.

The couple, who met while at school, live together in a £2.85million five-bedroom property mansion in Prestbury, Cheshire – just a stone’s throw away from Wayne and Coleen Rooney.

They previously lived in the Bramhall area of Manchester with Phil’s parents as the footballer wanted to make sure he kept the family close. 

Not a huge amount is known about Rebecca, who only seems to have fan pages on social media.

Rebecca and Phil are childhood sweethearts (Picture: Richard Sellers/Getty Images)

Phil is a big fishing fan (Picture: Instagram/Ronnie Foden)

In 2022, the pair hit the headlines after they were filmed having a heated argument while on holiday in Corfu.

Witnesses claimed that the couple booked sun loungers on the publicly accessible beach and Phil posed for photos with female fans who approached him.

When the footballer went swimming in the sea, Rebecca reportedly looked at his phone and ‘got extremely angry’ resulting in the two getting into an argument. 

In September 2020, Phil – who signed to Man City in November 2017 when he was aged just 17 – was dropped from the England team after admitting to breaking Covid quarantine rules by meeting girls in a hotel room. 

Phil will be hoping for a spot in the England squad for the Euros 2024 (Picture: Neal Simpson/Sportsphoto/Allstar via Getty Images)

The Premier League footballer will be eagerly waiting for the England squad call up for the Euros 2024, where he is tipped to represent the national team once again.

Gareth Southgate’s provisional 23-person England team is due to be announced on May 21, with the official lineup revealed in June before the Euros kick off.

Phil – a great fishing enthusiast – is one of five siblings, with brother Callum, who is three years older, and younger siblings Kenzi, Lois, and Avayah.

Mum Claire said he was ‘the cheapest kid ever’, telling The Daily Telegraph his childhood was: ‘No games, no toys, nothing, just a football.’

Phil is actually known as Ronnie himself to his family and friends, after Claire revealed he was nicknamed ‘Ronnie Roundhead’ because of the shape of his head as a child, and the name stuck.

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