Freestyle football

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Freestyle football, also known as freestyle soccer, is the art of juggling with a football using feet, knees, lower legs, chest, shoulders, and head while simultaneously performing creative, skillful moves and keeping the ball airborne. It has become a widespread sport across the world and is played by many people.

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[edit] Increase in popularity

Freestyle football has existed for some time, but it has seen a surge in popularity as a result of global ad campaigns and digital media sharing. 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. These advertisements featured famous players such as Ronaldinho and Edgar Davids. Many link such mass media attention to the start of the freestyle craze. In the Youtube era, however, many previously non-famous players have risen to prominence, and internet searches easily yield thousands of videos by amateur "freestylers" around the world.

[edit] Freestyle Competitions

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.

In December 2006 the "Masters of The Game" competition, held in Amsterdam and was won by John Farnworth. Nutmeg or Panna and other street football competitions have been held featuring street soccer players such as Edward Van Gils 'Edje', Issy Hitman, Jermaine Vanenburg.

in 2007 there was a competition in Latin America called Red Bull Reaccion.

[edit] Notable freestylers

[edit] Freestyle DVDs

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