| Victor Rubilar | |
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| Born | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Awards | 4 Guinness World Records, 1st place "Directors Choice Award" P. Credit Festival, 2nd Place "People Choice Award" P. Credit Festival, 2nd Place "People Choice Award" Halifax Fextival, 1st Place "People Choice Award" Sault Ste. Marie Festival, 1st Place TV Program "Rampljuset. |
| Website | |
| http://www.victorrubilar.com | |
Victor Rubilar is an Argentinian professional football performer and comedian based in Sweden. He worked as a magician[1] for three years in Argentina before he decided to become a professional football freestyler / football juggler. He moved from Argentina to Sweden to study at the school of contemporary arts in Cirkus Cirkör[1]. He specialized in football freestyling, football juggling and acrobatics. He was also educated in the arts of performing, theatre and dance.
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After he finished his education he worked at the Swedish National Theatre Riksteatern as a main character in a football show touring 6 months around Sweden. He performed "En Liten Föreställning om Fotboll"[2] in over 40 cities all over Sweden.
In 2007 he broke three Guinness World Records. The records he broke are "The most rolls of a football from temple to temple" (42), "The most footballs juggled" (5) and "The longest time to spin a football on the forehead" (19.96 seconds)[3]. In 2008 he broke the record of "The most rolls of a football from temple to temple" again [4]. This time he did 67. Also he broke a new world record of "The longest distance travelled while balancing a ball on the forehead" (278 meters). Victor Rubilar has been featured on the Guinness Book of records in 2008 and 2009[5]. In 2010 Victor Rubilar set a new world record of "The most consecutive football rolls across the forehead". He did 581 at Cicerellos Fish 'n' Chips in Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia, on 1 April 2010.[6]
Victor Rubilar is consider by the press to be one of the best football performers in the world. He specializes on mixing football freestyle and football juggling skills with dance, acrobatics and comedy. During his career he have taken part in commercials for Coca Cola, Puma and Etisalat. His shows are well known for combining football freestyle skills with world class juggling tricks with three and five footballs. He did a show for Puma in Germany with the football star Pele[7], at the finals of the French league in front of 80.000 people at the Stade de France Stadium. He have performed with Adidas in a Scandinavia tour (+Challenge), with Puma in Switzerland during the Euro Cup 2008. Since the start of his career Victor Rubilar have done shows in over 30 countries[8] in over 150 different cities all over the world. He performs between 100 to 200 shows a year in a media of 10/15 different countries per year.
In 2009 Victor Rubilar was competing on a Swedish TV Talent show (Rampljuset) where he won[9] the title of "The performer of the year".
Quotes from the Jury of the TV program: "This was even better that the other two times you have been here. Every time you have been raising the bar".
"You are an extremely good entertainer. You get the audience with you everywhere and on exactly everything you do"[10].
Victor Rubilar is a very versatile performer. Given the education he have had he performs not only on football freestyle shows but he also have performed in Theatre shows, fire shows and one of his specialities is comedy shows. "Circus Super Star"[11] is the name of his latest show. He developed this show in Argentina in 2007. This is a 45 minutes comedy show.
Description of the show: Imagine an entire football arena combined with the sensation of watching a hilarious soap opera. During the show Victor Rubilar builds up an intense relationship between his latino character and the audience. This is a show with not only humor but a high technical level of juggling. Victor combines juggling with footballs, juggling balls, acrobatic, magic and loads of comedy.[12] Victor Rubilar have performed this award winning show all over Europe, The Middle East, Canada, India and South America.
In 2007 Victor participated on the Swedish version of America's Got Talent. He have presented his show twice on TV in Dubai (Dubai TV), In Egypt together with Etisalat. In 2009 Victor won a TV Talent show in Sweden (Rampljuset)Rampljuset finals
Guinness World Records:[13]
-Longest distance traveled while balancing a football on the forehead -Most rolls of a football from temple to temple [14] -Longest time to spin a football on the forehead -Most footballs juggled
Festivals:
-1st Place "People's Choice Award" Halifax Busker Festival -1st Place "People's Choice Award" Victoria International Busker Festival -1st Place "Director's Choice Award" Australian Champhionship of Surfers Paradise -1st Place "People's Choice Award" Sault Ste. Marie Busker Festival -1st Place "People's Choice Award" Port Credit Festival -2nd Place "Director's Choice Award" Port Credit Festival
TV:
-1st Place TV talent Show (Rampljuset)