MEET Liv Cooke, football’s most extravagant freestyler who boasts a property empire and a fleet of supercars.
The 24-year-old from Lancashire is an Instagram favourite and boasts over two million followers, while on TikTok that number is more than double.
Fans have seen her pulling off the most amazing stunts, including her party-piece – juggling a mobile phone and tablet from a great height. Her videos draw in billions of views.
But it’s as a property developer in the North West where Liv is raking it in.
Her company has clients including Premier League footballers, Blue Peter presenters and the Great Britain taekwondo Olympics team.
She also houses women who are victims of domestic abuse, and has helped develop two new 3G pitches in her local community.
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Cooke’s hard work has paid off, allowing her to live a lifestyle to envy.
The female sport influencer owns a fleet of super cars, including a £170,000 Ferrari 488 and a Lamborghini Urus worth £200,000.
From football to freestyling
Liv grew up in a football-mad house with two older brothers who played the game.
She starred for Blackburn Rovers at youth level, alongside future Lionesses Georgia Stanway, Ella Toone and Keira Walsh.
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However, as fate would have it, a cruel back injury meant she had to forget about becoming a pro when she was 14.
Instead, Liv turned to skills training. She practiced juggling a football while sat down, just to make sure she didn’t lose her touch, and a new career blossomed.
She decided, ultimately, to enter the world of freestlying from then on.
It was a decision, Liv told the Guardian in 2022, that she didn’t take lightly.
She said: “It was a stupid decision, really. But I felt it in my heart that it was the right thing to do and I just went with that.
“It all looks intentional in many ways, but actually, for me, football was never a career. I was heading down that way, but I never once thought ‘I wonder how much money I’m going to sign for’, it was never about that for me.
“I love football so much and I was going to do it for the rest of my life, and I didn’t care if I made £10 or £10,000 an hour.
“My enjoyment wasn’t materialistic and it wasn’t financial. It was getting out there, winning on the weekends and enjoying the game with my team.”
Outrageous stunts
Liv has come a long way since showcasing her freestyle skills at a school in her hometown Leyland, Lancashire, in 2015.
In 2017, she competed in the Super Ball open football freestyle championships, where she was crowned the world football freestyle champion and the youngest in history to ever take the title.
That scored her commercial work – most notably with the likes of Adidas, Lidl and Channel 4, as well as presenting gigs with the BBC for their sadly cancelled MOTDx show.
But it’s on social media where the younger crowd will know her.
In 2021, she was confirmed as the highest earning female athlete TikTok creator at the time.
She boasts 5.5 million followers on the platform and a further two million on Instagram.
Her videos border on insane and ingenious.
From saving mobile phones and tablets from falling out of windows with her feet to ball-juggling on the back of a jet ski while her best pal and partner-in-freestyle crime, Olivia Weedall,steers, her stunts are outrageous.
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Property empire
But it’s with her property portfolio where Liv is making serious money.
Her first foray as an investor and developer came when she was just 19 – a two bed apartment in Lancashire. She then added a one-bed flat in Manchester soon after, and a serious hobby had begun.
Over the years, she has continued to add to her property empire, and has helped house Premier League footballers, as well as BBC presenters.
Better still, her properties also house women who have been domestically abused and are looking for a safe place.
Explaining how she got into property, Liv told the Lancashire Post: “I’ve always been obsessed with being successful and the mindset and worth ethic it takes. I study the greats in any field, originally for motivation when I was training to become the world’s greatest freestyle footballer.
“I loved Grant Cardones story how he came from nothing to achieve his dream, his relentless drive inspired me in training. Through watching him for inspiration for work ethic I inadvertently gained real estate knowledge
“After achieving my dream, my profile grew, my career progressed and I was earning nice amounts of money.
“I then realised I could probably turn these riches into wealth with my basic understanding of real estate. So when lockdown hit and we couldn’t travel or go outside I seized my chance to dive into learning real estate.
“I read something like seven books and watched a thousand hours of YouTube content on investments/developments in my first week. Similarly to how I ascended rapidly in freestyle football, I got obsessed with real estate.
“My first project commenced not long after, I’m not one to sit around thinking about doing something.
“The following week I began searching for my first project and had an offer accepted on a property I intended to renovate and convert into a high cash flowing asset. Safe to say I dived into the deep end with material costs flying up due to Covid restrictions.”
Fast cars
Although Liv has remained coy about her net worth, estimates online claim she could be worth over £10million.
Judging by the lifestyle she lives, those guesses don’t seem so far-fetched.
Her car collection is to be envied, and she regularly shares pictures of her amazing motors on Instagram.
‘Barbie’ pink is seemingly her favourite colour – boasting a £200,000 Lamborghini Urus and a £170,000 Ferrari 488 in that hue.
Other cars seen in her fleet include a Lamborghini Huracan worth £235,000, a Rolls-Royce Phantom with a price tag of around £400,000 and a Mercedes-Benz G-Class that starts at £130,000.
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While, when she travels she flies by private jet.
Clearly, she’s living life in the fast lane.
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