Altrincham is one of the more affluent suburbs to the south of Manchester. Plenty lot of players live in the area, including in wealthy adjacent villages, which includes Hale where Cunha now resides.
Former United goalkeeper David De Gea occasionally used National League side Altrincham FC’s stadium, Moss Lane, to keep himself sharp during his year as a free agent following his release in 2023. The Spaniard moved to Fiorentina last year, and impressed for the Italian side.
De Gea has also admitted that he once inadvertently stole some doughnuts from a local Tesco shortly after he moved to England from Atletico Madrid in 2011. “Nothing really happened,” De Gea said at the time. “Me, my cousin and a friend from Spain went to the shop, we were hungry and took the doughnuts.
“We we going to buy more things. I realised I didn’t have my wallet so I went out to the car to get it. Nothing more. They thought that I was leaving without paying so I tried to explain to them but my English is still not very good and we were there for a while.
“In the end a Spanish girl arrived and we understood each other and in the end they ended up apologising to us. They made a big thing out of nothing but I took the whole thing as something funny.”