Cocoon Maldives has revealed that the World Champion Football Freestyler Séan Garnier is currently training at the resort.

The French freestyle footballer, Séan Garnier began his walk of life as an association football player, notably for Auxerre and Troyes, but his professional career was cut short due to injuries. In 2006, the current world champion Benjamin Aw taught Garnier to become a football instructor and started a program of urban freestyle art gaining great fame with his unique style and skills. 

In 2008,  Garnier was declared World Champion at the inaugural Red Bull Street Style World Finals in São Paulo, Brazil. Séan combined music, breakdance, somersaults, numerous football and basketball elements to his attractive routines.He formed his own team dubbed Street Style Society also called S3 Crew, which combines freestyle football, freestyle basketball as well as some other street sports styles.

In addition to performing at freestyle football shows,  Garnier also practices this sportive discipline in matches, such as street soccer, futsal, profutsal or Panna. He is the captain of French profutsal team Massaliotes, and champion freestyle in participe on Mexico ksk players fotball street.

Located on the pristinely stunning island of Ookolhufinolhu in Lhaviyani Atoll, only a short 30-minute seaplane ride away from Velana International Airport, Cocoon Maldives is best described as an actualisation of a dream to create a unique designer resort that mixes luxury, design aesthetics, and hospitality into a unique tropical island paradise.

Designed by renowned Italian firm LAGO, Cocoons minimal interiors complement with furniture made from 200-year-old wildwood defer to the overwhelming beauty of the surrounding marine environment and lush green vegetation that envelope the whole island.

The resort also features an expansive reception pavilion, a dive centre, a spa, a lounge, library, gym and kids club, in addition to 150 villas on the beach or poised on stilts in the lagoon.