Freestyle for everyone
Entries for the tournament opened on 18 May, with anyone and everyone is invited to submit a 30-second video of their freestyle football skills.
The Freestyle Football World Championships will be held online this year, and anyone can enter.
The Red Bull Street Style will accept video clips from anyone in the world. Through a series of challenges, the field will be narrowed until the best international men and women, from reigning titleholders to newcomers, turn it up in a live online world final streamed globally. Entries for the tournament opened on 18 May, with anyone and everyone is invited to submit a 30-second video of their freestyle football skills at www.redbullstreetstyle.com
“This online season of Red Bull Street Style could not have come at a better time, and it’s unique,” said Steve Elias, president of the World Freestyle Football Association. “There has never been a freestyle competition on this scale that’s online and open to everyone.”
Subsequent stages of the tournament will serve up specific challenges related to musicality, trick execution and creativity. With each, the field is whittled further, while the global exposure, including live performances, grows higher. Finally, 16 men and eight women will face off in stage five, the world final, in November. Among them are anticipated to be the defending world champions. Mélody Donchet of France is the only person to have captured three Red Bull Street Style titles.
“For me, Red Bull Street Style is the best competition in the world,” she said. “The competitive aspect is only part of the reason why [I have competed in it more than any other sport]. It’s also got a big media presence, which helps me share my passion for the sport.”South African football freestyling legend, Chris Njokwana, won the national finals in 2008 and went on to be part of the star-studded judging panel for the Red Bull Street Style World Finals in 2010, hosted in Cape Town.
