Freestyle football

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Freestyle football is the art of juggling with a football using feet, knees, chest, shoulders, and head while simultaneously performing creative, skillful moves and keeping the ball airborne.

1 Increase in popularity
2 Freestyling Tricks
3 Noted Football Freestylers
4 External links

[edit] Increase in popularity

In the early 21st Century, Nike began an advertising campaign which relied heavily on the freestyle form of football, including video clips of freestyle performances. People were able to see famous players such as Ronaldinho and Edgar Davids play displaying their technical skills. Many link such mass media attention to the start of the freestyle craze. (See Joga Bonito article.)

Shortly after, Nike launched a freestyle football competition on the internet Nike Football, in which participants could submit their own clips and receive feedback from a worldwide audience.

Since then, freestyle football has continued to grow and has made individual "freestylers" such as Soufiane Touzani and Joško Žarković popular.

[edit] Freestyling Tricks

One well-known move is known as the "Maradona 7", in which the player must play the ball with the right foot, then the left foot, then the right thigh, then the left thigh, then the right shoulder, then the left shoulder, and finally the head.

"Around the World" is also popular; in this move, the player plays the ball off of one foot, and that foot then circles up and over the ball before before returning underneath to play the ball again.

"Stall" moves involve catching the ball in a stationary position. Many freestylers are able to catch the ball on their foreheads, the backs of their necks, or wedged between their heel and the back of their thigh.

[edit] Noted Football Freestylers

HFK Freestyle crew Swedish freestyle group including Mikael Lindroth and Tobias Sjödin
Filip Meeus Stylish Belgian Freestyler
[1]Uk Football Street Freestyler, Ryan Benbow
Masterclass Freestyle
Funk Seol Bros freestyle team Australian freestyle team
FDU - Freestylers Down Under Australia's First Freestyle Group run by MickyD, Azn fs and Daniel10
Colin Nell The definitive football freestyler
Abbas Farid The official UK football freestyle Champion
Billy Wingrove Another Noted UK freestyle champion
Woo Soccer The official website of Hee Young Woo, also known as "Mr Woo the Greatest Football Entertainer in the World."
Mike Delaney The world's top football choerographaer
Urban Freestsyler A UK based freestyler troupe
Kickn it Freestyle A North American based freestyler troupe
French Freestyle Football The only French Freestyle Football Website (Fabinho and Didoute)