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The SoccerGirl Podcast

131. Emma Checker - Melbourne City FC & Australian National Team

The SoccerGirl Podcast

SoccerGirl

Sports

51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Today on the podcast we have on Emma Checker. At 25 years old, Emma has already played professional soccer for 11 years. Emma opens up to us about mental health and injuries, she gives us great advice on how to overcome and learn from those challenges.

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0:00.0

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

0:08.8

Hey guys. Hi. How are you going? How are you? I'm good. I apologise if I'm still waking

0:14.6

up a little bit. I'll do the best I can. No worries. What time is it by you now? It's

0:20.6

6am, so it's not too bad. All right. And are you training today? Yeah, so we've just

0:26.4

moved facilities at the club, so it's a bit of a hike anyway. So this is kind of a normal

0:30.8

wake up time now. So it's good timing. How's the team looking? We're looking pretty good.

0:38.7

We had, I mean, obviously last season, we had a pretty difficult one. And I think we've

0:44.4

got a lot of young players coming through this season, but quite a minute. But we're looking

0:49.0

strong. I'm pretty unexcited for this season. All right. So it's awesome. What's its

0:53.2

typical week? What bike for you? At the moment where we're training on pitch five times

1:01.6

a week in the gym two or three times and then we're playing a practice game as well. And

1:08.0

it's just a lot of video, a lot of analysis. And just because we've got so many new girls

1:14.1

coming in again, just like fine tuning the way that we play because we do play a city

1:20.3

style of play, which is quite different to what most girls are used to. So they're pretty big

1:25.0

days. Most girls come from only being at the club maybe a few hours, but we're often there

1:30.9

up to six hours a day. So it's big, but it's all worth it. Wow, that's crazy. It sounds like

1:39.3

you're so busy. And I'm sure in your downtime, all you want to do is sleep. But is there anything else

1:45.6

that you do during the week like during your downtime? Any hobbies that you have or any like

1:50.4

non-soccer related things that you do? Yeah, I often laugh when people ask me about downtime,

1:58.9

I don't yeah, I study at the moment. So I'm part-time at universities. I'm doing

2:04.7

I try and do two subjects every semester at least, which often takes up most of what would be

2:12.4

downtime. But yeah, that's that's my biggest thing that I have on the side. And then other than that,

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