191. Malia Berkely - NC Courage

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🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Today on the podcast we chat with FSU alum and current NC Courage pro, Malia Berkely. We chat with Malia about playing overseas in France, how she grew as a player there and her biggest advice to joining a new team, embrace it! She also talks about how quickly things can change in women's soccer, how you will be challenged but to stick with it and stay true to yourself and your journey.

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0:00.0	Hey! How are you? Good, how are you? Good, thanks for happening on. Yeah, thanks for
0:24.3	having me. Are you in Carolina right now? Yes, our fitness test is Thursday and then we start
0:31.1	training Friday. What's your best? Almost about the fitness test. It's a 30-15. I've only actually
0:39.9	ran it once and it was in preseason last year. It's not as bad as beat tests, so I'm fine with it.
0:47.8	That's good. And then we just have a like the typical 40-meter sprint and jump test
0:55.4	and then some sort of agility test. Nice, that's not too bad. Yeah, not crazy. Better than the beat.
1:04.3	Always better than the beat. So how has it been at the curve so far? Really good. It's
1:09.7	completely different this year. We've made a lot of changes, so excited to see what's to come.
1:16.6	We're really just kind of starting from scratch, new groups, a lot of new front office staff,
1:23.2	new staff members, completely new, so look forward to seeing how it all goes. This will be your
1:29.9	second year, right? Yeah. My second year. And then before that you were playing overseas, right?
1:34.9	Yes, that was in France for a year. That's cool. So do you feel like your style of play is
1:39.8	different over like in France and here and then college or like do you think you have like a
1:44.7	similar style everywhere you've played? I feel like my style has been pretty consistent,
1:52.2	but the way that the team style is has maybe adapted a little more. It's a lot more technical
2:02.7	over in France. And I think that I like to be a more technical player, so I feel like I like
2:09.9	that a lot. I blended well getting to see different international players style kind of take
2:15.9	pieces where I can learn from them and then obviously the US league very physically demanding.
2:22.3	So definitely a little bit of a learning curve and a little bit of a change in that sense,
2:27.5	having to be more physical, but I still think that I at least try to be a technical player on the field.
2:34.5	How did playing in a foreign country like help grow your game on like the mental side?
2:42.7	On the mental side, just going into a place where my language wasn't the first language spoken
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