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The SoccerGirl Podcast

122. Liv Cooke- Freestyle World Champion & Five-Time World Record Holder

The SoccerGirl Podcast

SoccerGirl

Sports

51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Liv Cooke is a British professional football freestyler. She was side-lined by a recurring back injury and led her to discovering freestyle football videos online. She began to learn the basics in her back garden and then left college early in 2016 to focus full time on freestyle. Since she has become a freestyle World Champion, world record holder as well as BBC Sport presenter and UEFA ambassador and an entrepreneur. Check out her new book 'The Way to Win': https://amzn.to/2ZhDqM2

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0:00.0

What's up, ladyballers. Welcome back. We're Sakura Props and it's Game Time.

0:10.0

How are we, ladies? Good, how are you? Aren't you? Good. We're at time your book lunch. That's so exciting.

0:16.0

Thank you. It's been a mud day. How long have you been working on it? Nearly two years, you know. Wow.

0:22.0

That's a pain to write a book, isn't it? Sorry? It's such a pain to write a book, isn't it?

0:28.0

Have you done it as well? Yeah, we have one and I, when they mailed us like the printed out version of it,

0:34.0

so like read over and make hand edits by pen. I was like, this is wild. Yeah.

0:40.0

Yeah, no, it's a long process, isn't it? It's like your baby. It takes forever.

0:46.0

Yeah, exactly. I'm a bit of a control freak as well. So I felt like I was micromanaging everything.

0:52.0

Well, I print, well, I did. I did in the end. Can you tell us about it? Yeah, absolutely.

0:58.0

Well, it's out now public. So of course I can. It's 10 chapters. So it's like a 10 step guide on the way to win.

1:06.0

So like I wrote it. So anybody in any field could pick it up and essentially it'll give them advice on how to achieve their dream.

1:16.0

Because I feel like when you win in one field, whether that sport, business, music, tech, whatever,

1:22.0

the skills that you learn on what winning is and what it takes to win are life skills that can be applied to any field and any industry.

1:31.0

So I talk about the difference between winning once and actually becoming a winner.

1:36.0

And yeah, honestly, I'm buzzing with how it came out. It's better than I ever imagined.

1:43.0

That's really cool. And I feel like there is a certain mindset to winning. And of course every situation is different.

1:50.0

But there is a formula that, you know, the same types of tests and the same attitude had to take place in order for people again to tap regardless of the field.

1:59.0

Absolutely. It's that elite mindset isn't it? I think it all goes back to the mind. And if you've become the best in the world at anything and you turn your hand to something else, you, you're probably going to succeed.

2:12.0

Because you've got that competitiveness. You've got that drive. You know what it takes to win.

2:16.0

Yeah, because you do a couple different things. We were looking at you were an entrepreneur. You have your hands in a couple different things.

2:23.0

So you definitely use your, your winning mentality from freestyle and that as well. I'm sure, right?

2:29.0

Yeah. And that's what I talk about in the book. Like once you've learned to win, you can apply it. Win is transferable.

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