Rod Stewart

Rock legend Rod Stewart owned and played on an amateur soccer team called the Los Angeles Exiles during the late 1980s that DCFC's Trevor James coached.

"But it was just on the (background), it was like we're over there and he's doing his bit. "I think it might have been 'Forever Young.' I'd have to check," James said, referencing a track that peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard charts. "I always remember Costas because when we trained, he was a training actor trying to get parts and stuff, and he would always come to training in character. "They did Madonna's record. But the random twists and turns that came with being coach of the Exiles sure do. "(Stewart) wanted to be better and play better. But they still took winning very seriously, and Stewart himself was quite the footballer. "You'd have a lot of Brits, obviously, because of Rod. "He was close to being — he was at Brentford and maybe he could have played at Brentford," James said. "I didn't know who they were." "And he would hang up on him." "He'd say, 'Oh, tell him I'll call him back.