Alex Scott: So I was told I have to bring maple syrup.<\/p>\n
Olivia Smith: Yeah, you’re a gem. Maple syrup. Lovely. First of all, I always have, for example, pancakes before a match. I just like pancakes and I always need to have maple syrup. Honestly, I eat this with everything.<\/p>\n
Alex: When was the last time you were actually at home in Canada?<\/p>\n
Olivia: Oh – probably in the summer, as I spent my Christmas here.<\/p>\n
Alex: What do you think of home? Can you build a picture for me of what life was like for you growing up back home?<\/p>\n
Olivia: I have a younger sister, so we grew up together. My family were all kind of goofballs I would say. So just playing games a lot, we’re always outside, we have dogs as well. So I’ve grown up with dogs and just go to the park, play football, play with the dogs. That’s kind of like what a typical day would look like.<\/p>\n
Alex: So your sister plays football?<\/p>\n
Olivia: Yeah.<\/p>\n
Alex: What position does she play?<\/p>\n
Olivia: Midfielder, winger, striker.<\/p>\n
Alex: So does she look up to you and want to follow in your footsteps?<\/p>\n
Olivia: I hope so, but she claims she’s better than me!<\/p>\n
Alex: Does she literally watch your games and say “You should have been doing this” or “You should have scored that goal”?<\/p>\n
Olivia: Yes – she sends me snapchats of my game and says “Why did you do that?” I’m like, well, “What would you have done?”<\/p>\n
Alex: What did she think when you made your move to Arsenal?<\/p>\n
Olivia: She was so excited. I mean she also looks up to a team like Arsenal, she loves watching me play so then for me to get the opportunity and really be a role model for her playing with girls like Alessia [Russo] and Leah [Williamson], it’s amazing. She’s really excited for me. <\/p>\n
Alex: Who do you look up to back in Canada? <\/p>\n
Olivia: Christine Sinclair. She’s a huge legend in the game of course, and also Marta. Then I love watching the men’s game as well, so I was always looking up to Neymar, Ronaldinho, Messi, players like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Scott: So I was told I have to bring maple syrup. Olivia Smith: Yeah, you’re a gem.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-384011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}