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The WFFA unveils the visual identity of the 2023 World Freestyle Football Championship

The World Freestyle Football Association has unveiled the visual identity of the 2023 edition of its most competitive tournament: the World Freestyle Football Championship (WFFC), which this year will take place in Nairobi, Kenya in late November.

This event, the climax of a Freestyle Football competitive circuit that has visited all continents this season, will feature the 32 best freestylers in the world (16 males and 16 females). The athletes who have made it to this year’s World Final have been selected through the Pulse Series, comprising 6 events across all inhabited continents —Africa, Europe, North America, South America and Asia-Pacific— plus an Online qualifier for those who couldn’t make it to a physical competition.

This year’s edition of the WFFC will be held at the extraordinary Bomas of Kenya, in the capital city of Nairobi. The event will be co-organised together with the prestigious Homeboyz, the leading sports events and communications agency in Kenya and in the whole Eastern Africa region.

Lucaso Škoda, Head of Operations at the WFFA, said: “The 2023 edition of the WFFC will be the first-ever with the new global format and under the full ownership of the community. This is yet another evidence of the growth and strength not just of the WFFA as an organisation, but also of the sport of Freestyle Football itself. We can’t wait to put out this extraordinary show to the world!”.

For more information about the WFFC, please visit the corresponding Event Page on our website.

Stay tuned to the official channels of the WFFA to follow the latest updates!

October 10, 2023
Swedish Freestyle Football Championship 2023

Check the official results of the tournament on Tournify: click on the logo for more details!

Fantastic news for Swedish fans of Freestyle Football: the 2023 edition of the Swedish Freestyle Football Championship is around the corner!

This national event will take place on October 7th starting at 11 am CET at the Tryckeriet Helsinborg. The championships include a mixed 1×1 battles competition, as well as a Meet. Participation is free!

The venue will be open for overnight guests: air mattresses and light blankets (but not duvets) will be provided. If freestylers want to stay, they will need to bring their own sleeping bag, duvet, or thicker blanket if they so wish.

For more information and to discover the judges, follow the awesome Swedish Freestyle Football Community at @sweffc and send them a DM!

Stay tuned to the official channels of the WFFA to follow the latest updates!

September 25, 2023

Pulse Online 2023

	To register, visit the official page of the event at GameDay: click on the logo and sign up now!
	Check the official results of the tournament on Tournify: click on the logo for more details!

The 2023 Freestyle Football global circuit is about to reach its climax: Pulse Online, the global digital qualifier for the Finals of the World Freestyle Football Championship, is around the corner!

This last instalment of the 2023 Pulse Series is open to freestylers from all around the world who did not participate in any physical Pulse Event. The competition will happen on a fully online basis to allow as many freestylers as possible to participate.

The signups process will open on September 20th and close on September 25th; there will be no extensions, so all athletes who haven’t signed up by the end of the registration period will not be allowed to compete. Athletes under the age of 18 will be allowed to participate, but they will need to upload a signed Parental Form to the GameDay widget at the end of the registration process.

All results from the competition will be published on the official Tournify page of the event. The best two freestylers (one male and one female) will earn themselves a trip to Nairobi, Kenya to participate in the World Freestyle Football Championship Finals: for more details, check the sections below!

Registration

Signing up for Pulse Online has a cost of 5€. The registration process will be open between September 20th at 16h CEST and September 25th at 23:59h CEST. Important: no new signups will be accepted after September 25th, so make sure to register on time!

To sign up, follow this process:

Go to the official Registration Page of the event and follow the signups process: if you’re under the age of 18, please remember to upload the corresponding Parental Form when required
When your participation is approved, you will receive a Whatsapp message and you will be able to send the qualification video
The team of judges will select the best videos and rank them to progress to the next stage of the competition

IMPORTANT:

Only the freestylers who have not competed in any physical Pulse Event during the 2023 season (be it because they didn’t register or because they signed up but couldn’t participate due to injury) will be allowed to participate in Pulse Online
Any freestyler who tries to sign up for Pulse Online after having already participated in a physical Pulse Event will be immediately disqualified; the WFFA reserves the right to take further punitive action against any athlete who tries to take advantage of the format by registering twice

Competition structure

Pulse Online will happen on a completely digital basis via Whatsapp following this timeline:

Registration process: open between September 20th and September 25th. No registrations will be accepted after September 25th
Qualification stage: open between September 26th and September 29th. Freestylers will be asked to send their qualification videos between those dates. No videos will be accepted after September 29th
Circles: happening via Whatsapp between October 2nd and October 12th
Grand Finals: happening in a live online show on the WFFA channels between November 4th and 5th; participants will receive all necessary information beforehand so they can prepare accordingly

Format

In the qualification stage, the clips of the participants will be evaluated by three different judges, who will give them scores on a scale from 1 to 10. The marks from the three judges will be added up, and the participants will then be ranked according to their total score. In case of a score draw between two freestylers, a judge selected by the Sports Committee will intervene and use his quality vote to break the tie.

The circles will then be created according to the aforementioned ranking from the qualification stage and following the usual seeding procedure: the freestyler ranked first will be placed in a group with the last, the second with the second last, and so on.

In the circles, three judges will evaluate and score each of the three videos sent by the participants on a scale of 1 to 10. The best-ranked freestylers across all the circles will progress onto the next stage; the general ranking coming from these circles (that is, the total amount of points earned by each freestyler, accumulating the points earned by each of their three videos) will be used to determine the battles in the knockout stage. In case of a score draw between two freestylers, the results of the qualification stage will be used to break the tie.

The knockout rounds will feature live battles, including Top 8 for men and Top 4 for women, on an online show which will happen on the weekend of October 21st and will be broadcast on the official channels of the WFFA.

All results from the competition will be published on the official Tournify page of the event.

Judges

Pulse Mombasa will be evaluated by an elite team of judges that will be announced on the official WFFA channels. Stay tuned for more details!

Each of the judges will review and evaluate every clip from the participants individually and independently. In the event of a draw during a battle or in the qualification stage, the members of the WFFA Sports Committee will jump in and break the tie.

List of participants

Name	Surname	Country	Gender
Jakub	Nekuda	Czech Republic	Male
Philip	Pocock	New Zealand	Male
Khoa	Nguyen	Vietnam	Male
Ahmadreza	Allameh Falsafi	Iran	Male
Julio	Cisneros	Costa Rica	Male
Daniel	Mikolajek	Poland	Male
Anton	Popov	Russia	Male
Igo	Matos	Brazil	Male
Diego	Urzua	Chile	Male
David	Doncel	Chile	Male
Mathieu	Pierron	France	Male
Bruno	Vargas Villalta	Costa Rica	Male
Conor	Reynolds	Ireland	Male
Emese	Toth	Hungary	Female
Alexandre	Wilmart	France	Male
Rachel	Yang	South Korea	Female
Esteban	Gomez	Colombia	Male
Pavel	Tsahelnikau	Belarus	Male
Lucho	Venancio	Peru	Male
Yousef	Hawari	Palestine	Male
Jairo	Gonzalez	Mexico	Male
Sari	Aziz	Saudi Arabia	Male
Willian	Roa	Colombia	Male
Yahaira	Zapata	Mexico	Female
Juliana	Jaramillo Lopera	Colombia	Female
Leticia	Silva dos Santos	Brazil	Female
Hiroki	Matsumoto	Japan	Male
Albano	Mier	Spain	Male
Guillermo	Lobo	Costa Rica	Male
Yiannos	Sofroniou	Cyprus	Male
Volha	Miraliubava	Belarus	Female
Felix	Schwarze	Germany	Male
Luis	Juarez	Mexico	Male
Steven	Barrera	Colombia	Male
Luis Felipe	Pulido	Colombia	Male
Nahal	Barzjan	Iran	Female
Julio	Jasso Castillo	Mexico	Male
Serafina	Knapp	Germany	Female
Piotr	Jaskierski	Poland	Male
Nicolas	Morales	Chile	Male
Ghislain	Boisard	France	Male
Alvaro	Obregon	Spain	Male
Godfrey	Yu	Hong Kong	Male
Alex	Balmaceda	Argentina	Male
Enrique	Hernanzez	Spain	Male
Ivana	Riera	Argentina	Female
Akash	Singh	India	Male
Mohamad	Junior	Qatar	Male
Hadiya	Hakeem	India	Female
Sakurai	Sena	Japan	Male
Nasim	Saheri	Iran	Female
Yo Jing	Chen	Taiwan	Female
Jahir	Alberto	Mexico	Male
Yuki	Tokimoto	Australia	Male
Esvin	Jayes	Guatemala	Male
Angel	Hernandez	Mexico	Male
Benoit	Bergasse	France	Male
Nolan	Cacheux	France	Male
Alex	Hyland-Cid	United Kingdom	Male
Pankaj	Suriyal	India	Male
Ben	Kelly	Australia	Male
Tim	Hoekman	Netherlands	Male
Sergio	Sancho	Spain	Male
Matko	Vila	Croatia	Male
Guillaume	Favrat	Switzerland	Male
Amir Mohammad	Rasooli	Afghanistan	Male
Diego	Piquera Rubio	Spain	Male
Mao	Yamashita	Japan	Female
Kuranosuke	Fukuda	Japan	Male
Ali	Abedi	Iran	Male
Maryam	Nikbakht	Iran	Female
Mostafa	Ranjbar	Iran	Male
Mohammad	Hassani	Iran	Male
Sebastián	Zavala	Chile	Male
Payam	Homayoni	Iran	Male
William	Cardoza	Costa Rica	Male
Brayan Ghilmar	Gil	Peru	Male
Alireza	Moosavi	Afghanistan	Male
Reza	Kassaee	Iran	Male
Estela	Ribeiro	India	Female
Nico	Agustinoy	Argentina	Male
Sajedeh	Toudehzare	Iran	Female

Support documents

Are you willing to compete in this Pulse Event? Then make sure to check the files in the list below: they include all the information you may need.

		Parental form: a necessary document for all under-18 freestylers, to be uploaded to GameDay at the end of the registration process

		Rules: get to know how participants will be evaluated in the competition

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For more information, send us an email at pulse-series@thewffa.org or a DM to our official Instagram account at @thewffa!

Stay tuned to the official channels of the WFFA to follow the latest updates!

September 20, 2023

Moe-K and Jay Hennicke become the Asia-Pacific champions at Pulse Hiroshima 2023
Check the official website of the tournament on Tournify: click on the logo for more details!

WFFA Pulse Hiroshima 2023, the first-ever Freestyle Football Pulse Event to take place in the Asia-Pacific region, happened on September 16th at the impressive NTT Cred Hall in the city centre of Hiroshima, Japan. The tournament featured an intense 1×1 battle format, where the best freestylers competed to determine the champions of the male and female categories. The local crowd roared with excitement as athletes from a variety of countries across Asia and Oceania showcased their unique styles and cultures, both on and off the ball.

In the end, local hero Moe-K, in the female bracket, and Australian star Jay Hennicke, in the male tournament, emerged victorious and secured their spots in this year’s highly anticipated World Freestyle Football Championship Finals in Nairobi, Kenya.

The excitement did not end there, as six more freestylers (three men and three women) earned their places in the upcoming World Finals:
- Philip ‘PWG’ Warren Gertsson, Philippines
- Mai Yasutake, Japan
- Hiroyuki ‘Hiro-K’ Kaneko, Japan
- Miharu Miyoshi, Japan
- Akinobu ‘Aki’ Komine, Japan
- Sora Suzuki, Japan
The adventure of the Pulse Series is now heading to its last stop: the Online Pulse, a global, fully digital competition for all those freestylers who couldn’t join any physical event. The last two spots in the World Finals, one for men and one for women, are up for grabs!

Experience again all the thrills of Pulse Hiroshima 2023 thanks to the official live stream of its Finals:



For more information about the activities of the WFFA, follow its official channels to get the latest updates!
September 20, 2023
UK Freestyle Football Championships 2023

To register, visit the official page of the event at GameDay: click on the logo and sign up now!

Check the official results of the tournament on Tournify: click on the logo for more details!

Fantastic news for British fans of Freestyle Football: the 2023 edition of the UK Freestyle Football Championships is around the corner!

This national event, a classic in the global circuit, will take place on October 15th starting at 11 am GMT at the Football Fiesta in the city of Watford. The championships include a 1×1 Battles competition both for male and female freestylers in separate brackets, as well as competitions of Iron Man and Sick Three.

The basic participation fee is £20. Registrations close on October 9th, with no extended deadlines.

For more information and to discover the judges, follow the organisers at @ultimatefreestylecomp and send them a DM!

Stay tuned to the official channels of the WFFA to follow the latest updates!

September 12, 2023
Swiss Freestyle Football Championship 2023
Check the official results of the tournament on Tournify: click on the logo for more details!

Fantastic news for Swiss fans of Freestyle Football: the 2023 edition of the Swiss Freestyle Football Championship is around the corner!

This national event will take place on September 10th starting at 13h CEST at the Tuilière Stadium in Lausanne. The championships include a mixed competition of 1×1 battles.

The list of judges includes:
- Dahvitson (Switzerland)
- Daigoro (Italy)
- Johan Trambouze (France)
The participation fee is 40 CHF; winners will get awesome prizes!

For more information, follow the awesome Swiss community on Instagram at @swissffa or visit the official website of the association!

Stay tuned to the official channels of the WFFA to follow the latest updates!
September 7, 2023
An extraordinary week concludes with ‘Karol’ Rojer and ‘Machine’ Peña’s victory at Pulse Córdoba
Check the official website of the tournament on Tournify: click on the logo for more details!

WFFA Pulse Córdoba 2023, the first-ever Freestyle Football Pulse Event to happen in Latin America, took place in the Argentinian city of Córdoba between August 30th and September 2nd. The competition, organised in cooperation with the Asociación Cordobesa de Freestyle Futbol, featured not just a 1×1 battles competition to determine the six South American representatives at the World Final later this year, but also a series of tournaments (Challenge, Sick Three, Panna 1×1, Show Flow, Iron Man & Woman, and Routines) for the Latin American community to showcase all their skills and passion for the sport.

The qualifiers were held between August 30th and September 1st at the legendary Estadio Kempes, a massive stadium that was once an official venue for the FIFA World Cup 1978, with the finals happening on September 2nd at the Museo Metropolitano de Arte Urbano, located at the very centre of the city.

The competition crowned two emerging stars of the sport: Diana ‘Karol’ Rojer, from Panamá, and Sebastián ‘Machine’ Peña, from Colombia, took the victories in the female and male categories respectively.

The excitement did not end there, as four more freestylers (two men and two women) earned their places in the upcoming World Finals:
- Sebastián ‘Boyka’ Ortiz, Colombia
- Laura Biondo, Venezuela
- Julián Sosa, Colombia
- Marisa Cintra, Brazil
The adventure of the Pulse Series doesn’t stop here, though, and the competition will travel now to Hiroshima, in Japan, to crown the Asia-Pacific regional champions and find six more World Finalists – a total of four ladies and four gentlemen.

Experience again all the thrills of Pulse Córdoba 2023 thanks to the official live stream of its Finals:



For more information about the activities of the WFFA, follow its official channels to get the latest updates!
September 5, 2023
Arab Freestyle Football Online Championship 2023
Great news for freestylers from all across the Arab world: the 2023 edition of the Arab Freestyle Football Online Championship is around the corner!

This event, open to all freestylers from the Arab countries, will take place on a fully online basis, featuring digital qualifiers and a final that will be streamed live on the channels of the organisers. The tournament, which will start on September 1st and end on November 1st, will include a 1×1 battles competition both for male and female freestylers in separate brackets.

The list of judges includes:
- Erlend Fagerli, Norway
- Hiro-K, Japan
- Brynjar Fagerli, Norway
- Ammar Freez, United Arab Emirates
- Yosef ben Ammar, Tunisia
For more information and to follow the competition, check out the official Instagram of the organisers at @arabianfreestylers and send them a DM!

Stay tuned to the official channels of the WFFA to follow the latest updates!
August 30, 2023
Caitlyn Schrepfer and Patrick Shaw take the victory in Pulse New York City 2023
Check the official website of the tournament on Tournify: click on the logo for more details!

WFFA Pulse New York City 2023, the first-ever Freestyle Football Pulse Event to take place in North America, happened on August 26th at the extraordinary American Dream entertainment centre in East Rutherford, NJ – just minutes away from the Big Apple. The tournament featured an intense 1×1 battle format, where the region’s best freestylers competed to determine the champions of the male and female categories. The local crowd roared with excitement as athletes from eight different countries across the Americas showcased their unique styles and cultures, both on and off the ball.

In the end, two local heroes emerged victorious and secured their spots in this year’s highly anticipated World Freestyle Football Championship Finals in Nairobi, Kenya: Patrick Shaw and Caitlyn Schrepfer, both of US American nationality, took the victories in the male and female brackets respectively.

The excitement did not end there, as two more freestylers (a man and a woman) earned their places in the upcoming World Finals:
- Mathilde Fortier, Canada
- Fahad Albreiki, USA
The adventure of the Pulse Series doesn’t stop here, though, and the competition will travel now to South America to crown the regional champions and find four more World Finalists – a total of three ladies and three gentlemen.

Experience again all the thrills of Pulse New York City 2023 thanks to the official live stream of its Finals:



For more information about the activities of the WFFA, follow its official channels to get the latest updates!
August 29, 2023
World Freestyle Football Day Bogotá 2023
Great news for Colombian fans of Freestyle Football: the 2023 edition of the World Freestyle Day in Bogotá is around the corner!

This open event will take place on August 27th starting at 9am COT at La Liga de Soccer synthetic court located in the city of Bogotá, in Colombia. The tournament will include a mixed 1×1 battles competition, as well as a tournament of Routines.

The list of judges includes:
- Yen Acosta (Colombia)
- Nicolas Gutierrez (Colombia)
- Oscar Villalba (Colombia)
- Nicolas Navarro (Colombia)
- Marco Quiroga (Colombia)
Participation is free: the winners will get a prize in cash!

For more information, follow the organisers on Instagram at @futbolestilolibre and send them a DM!

Stay tuned to the official channels of the WFFA to follow the latest updates!
August 23, 2023