Freestyle
Urban Spotlight: Kotaro Tokuda, Youngest Freestyle Champ
One of Japan's premier freestylers, Kotaro Tokuda aka "Tokura," first began playing soccer in the sixth grade. When an injury on the field turned him onto freestyle, Tokuda quickly took...
Freestyle
Japanese Freestyler Yosuke Yokota Proves He’s Still a Creative Beast
Here's a pretty sweet video by Yosuke Yokota, the seriously skilled freestyler best known for his second-place finish to Séan Garnier in the 2008 inaugural Red Bull Street Style World Finals, held...
Videos
Top 10 Tekkers to Help You Recover From the Worst Flu Ever
Two weeks into the new year and we’ve had record rain. Along with the chilly weather, I’ve also noticed a high number of sneezes, hacks, and raspy coughs. Hopefully...
Street Football
Lexicon, Part 2: A Guide to Street Football Terms
Street football has been around a long, long time. Cavemen were probably playing the game with a rock and goals made from T-Rex bones. And yet the game is understandably...
Street Football
Just Kickin’ It: The Importance of Street Football in Youth Soccer
There's nothing better than street ball on a sunny day. Growing up, I would always invite friends to play on the road next to my house. We would set up goals...
Tutorials
World Record Holder Laura Biondo Reveals Her Favorite Trick
Multiple Guinness World Records holder, including for most headers in a minute and most ATWs in a minute, and decorated freestyle champ Laura Biondo makes "The Clipper" seem deceptively easy. The trick actually requires...
Tutorials
“Chikawala” Breaks Down an Insane Move No Human Can Do in a Real Game (Yah, That’s a Challenge)
Popular street baller Jose "Chikawala" Perez demos "The Cobra" for the Nike FootballX Skills series, and the move, to put it lightly, is not user-friendly. The Long Beach footballer is...
Videos
Marcelo and Zidane Join the Adidas Tango Squad for ‘Creativity Gets You Noticed’ Video
Don't try this at home — or more accurately — don't try this at your local stadium. For its latest Creators Never Follow campaign video, Adidas follows several of the best...
Music
DJ Diveny Takes Us Around the World with His Freestyler’s Playlist
The beauty of freestyle football is it only requires one thing: a ball. DJ Diveny is one of the most unique freestylers in the game, and has followed his...
Freestyle
Top 10 Tekkers: The Best Freestyle Videos From 2017!
The end of another crazy year is fast approaching, and the beautiful ever-growing sport of freestyle football shows no signs of slowing down. As 2017 draws to a close,...
Futsal
Brazil’s Amandinha Shines as Best Female Futsal Player in the World
In case there's any doubt that Brazil produces some of the best footballers—men and women—on the globe, meet Amanda Lyssa de Oliveira Crisostomo. Known to her friends as "Amandinha," the...
Videos
Séan Garnier Gave Me Panna-noia
Séan Garnier — the myth, the legend, the deliver of painful pannas — recently dropped in on our UrbanFutsal LA facility for a private film session. It started off friendly...
Tutorials
Kristoffer Liicht Breaks Down His “Jeand Doest Wave” Move
We asked Kristoffer Liicht of Copenhagen Panna House to demonstrate the move he used on the boss himself, Séan Garnier, during a past panna competition. Liicht is a panna stud with humility and...
Tutorials
Signature Move with All-Around Baller Miguel Sanchez
Continuing with our Signature Move series, where we have ballers break down one of their favorite tekkers, L.A. street baller Miguel Sanchez shows us a devastating maneuver he uses to put...
Street Football
Nike Shows Off Street Football Sports Car?
Continuing in the theme of street football commercials that don't make sense, Nike throws their hat in the ring by unveiling a new high-performance sports car ... wait, what? Our thoughts...
Videos
Top 10 Tekkers: 2017 Edition!
For those of us in the doldrums after the holidays, we bring you this week's Top 10 Tekkers! After all, what better way to ring in the new year...
Tutorials
Nike Street Football Training Drill: Speed Alley
The Speed Alley is a street football take on the ancient "running the lines" drill that tennis and basketball coaches would often make high school teams do during practices.
Music
Don’t Fake the Funk: Kosuke Takahashi’s Freestyler’s Playlist
Kosuke Takahashi has been busy building a name for himself in the increasingly competitive world of freestyle. After winning the Asian Freestyle Football Championship in 2015, he followed that up with...
Freestyle
10 Amazing Places Freestylers Have Performed Around the World
Popularity and visibility of freestyle football is spreading across the world with talent posing and posting their skills in amazing places around the globe. From North America to Europe and Asia,...
Freestyle
Top 10 Tekkers: The Uppers Edition
By now most people will recognize that when it comes to freestyle football, the tricks can be broken up into some different categories. One of those categories is uppers...
