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WFFA Youth Championship 2022
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!

Awesome news for the next generation of freestylers from all around the world: one of the WFFA’s most important tournaments, the World Youth Freestyle Football Championship, is back in 2022!

This year, the tournament grows and changes its platform, from the old WFFA App to a new, easier format based on Whatsapp (or an equivalent messaging tool for countries where this service is not available). In this edition of the competition, you won’t need to worry about technical issues and you’ll be able to focus completely on showing us your best Freestyle Football moves!

Remember: to participate in the Youth Championship, you must be 15 years of age or younger on the date when registrations close. See below for more information!

Registration

Registrations for the 2022 WFFA Youth Championship are completely free and will be open between October 24th and November 7th. Important: no new signups will be accepted after November 7th, so make sure to register on time!

To sign up, follow this process:
1. Go to the GameDay page of the event and follow the registration process: once completed, you’ll receive an email with a link to the Parental Form
2. Get the Parental Form signed by your mother, father or legal guardian and send it back to forms@thewffa.org before November 7th, 2022
3. When your form is approved, you will receive a Whatsapp message and you will be able to send the qualification video
4. The team of judges will select the best 128 videos (64 for boys and 64 for girls) and rank them to progress onto the next stage of the competition
Do not forget that in order to participate you will need to be 15 years of age or younger when registrations close on November 7th, 2022.

Competition structure

This year, the WFFA Youth Championship will follow this timeline:
1. October 24th to November 7th: Registration period. No registrations will be accepted after November 7th
2. November 9th to November 16th: Qualification stage. Freestylers will be asked to send their qualification videos between those dates. No videos will be accepted after November 16th
3. November 29th to December 5th: Top64 stage in Circles format, all happening via Whatsapp
4. December 12th to December 15th: Top16 stage in 1×1 battles format, all happening via Whatsapp
5. December 17th: Grand Finals (Top8, Semifinals, Bronze Battles, Finals) happening on a live event; participants will get all 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, the Head of Judging 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 Top16. In case of a score draw between two freestylers, the results of the qualification stage will be used to break the tie.

Rules

The 2022 edition of the WFFA Youth Championship will use the Official Rules of Freestyle Football for its battles. Any specific rules and regulations affecting the competition will be published on the corresponding page of the WFFA website.

Judges

The team of judges for the 2022 WFFA Youth Championship will feature the following first-class freestylers from all around the world:
- Charly Iacono (Argentina)
- Kitti Szász (Hungary)
- Javi Sanz (Spain)
- Paloma P. Mayo (Spain)
- Jasmijn Janssen (Netherlands)
- Julio Cisneros (Costa Rica), Head of Judges
Prizes

The 2022 edition of the WFFA Youth Championship will reward not just the male and female champions of its 1×1 battles competition, but also offer awards to three extra categories in a similar fashion as in 2021.

For more information, send us an email at youth.championship@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!
October 21, 2022
Freestyle Football gets a new queen and record-setting king in Valencia

The first-ever Red Bull Street Style World Final in Valencia, Spain, and the first in two years to be on stage surrounded by spectators, made for a supercharged atmosphere. And if the fans at the Palau de la Música venue were hot to see the latest from Freestyle Football’s elite, the athletes themselves were positively on fire.

After a year of qualification rounds, the initial field of more than 700 hopefuls from all around the world had been whittled down to the elite: 16 men and 8 women serving up new tricks and new styles.

The women’s field was the toughest in Red Bull Street Style history and a fresh name skyrocketed to stardom, as the UK’s Lia Lewis captured the ultimate title by defeating 2018 World Champion Aguśka Mnich of Poland in a tense final round.

The event was just Lewis’s second World Final appearance; but even more astonishing, she only began working on freestyle tricks three years ago.

The influence of dance and acrobatic backgrounds on the style of Lewis and third-place finisher Caitlyn Schrepfer of the USA confirmed an exciting direction for the sport and Lewis won Best Trick with a bridge-to-splits manoeuvre.

Fans were shocked, however, when four-time World Champion and legend of the sport Mélody Donchet of France failed to make the podium. The French star, who tearfully accepted a long ovation on stage, hinted that it might be her last World Final.

Of course, the athletes weren’t only facing each other. The judging panel in Valencia was a mighty line-up of freestyle title-winners assembled by the WFFA: Tobias Becs of Norway; France’s Séan Garnier, who in 2008 became the first-ever Red Bull Street Style champ; Michał Rycac of Poland; home Spanish star Javi Sanz and two-time Red Bull Street Style champion Kitti Szász from Hungary.

In the male bracket, while the triumph of Norway’s Erlend Fagerli – just reaching his prime and already the greatest the sport has ever known – wasn’t unexpected, what was a surprise was how hard he had to work for it.

After cruising confidently through the first battles, in the final he squared off with Jesse Marlet from the Netherlands, who had never before made it to the concluding round. With nothing to lose, the Dutchman delivered new tricks that pushed Fagerli into some uncharacteristic baubles. But in the end, the Norwegian and his breathtaking transitions were simply on another level.

Third place went to Colombia’s Boyka Ortiz, an experienced contender and previous runner-up, but youngsters to watch earned big respect, too. French phenom Tristan Gac, not yet 20, won Best Trick honours with his upside-down sole-stall. Fellow teen Gabriel Parke, a fast-rising Brazilian sensation who is blazing a new path with imaginative twisty, rolling moves, also impressed.

Fagerli, whose always-innovative brother Brynjar competed in the World Final as well, stated, “I want to say huge respect to Jesse. He’s one of the freestylers who keep pushing all the time to make this sport develop, and I was delighted to compete against him in the final.”

Applauding the Spanish spectators, the triple World Champion added, “I love the audience. The energy has been electric all night, and it has been so good to compete here. We just love Freestyle Football!”.

See it again! Rewatch the Red Bull Street Style World Final 2021 on Red Bull TV video on demand.

Rewatch the Studio show on the WFFA official YouTube channel:

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Words by Trish Medalen for RedBull.com; pictures by Gianfranco Tripodo for the Red Bull Content Pool.

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

November 22, 2021
The WFFA confirms the team of judges for the Red Bull Street Style 2021 World Final

The stage is set, the lights are on and the battles are about to begin: the Red Bull Street Style World Final has finally arrived!

This year, apart from a line-up of absolute superstars battling for the title of world champion on Saturday, November 20th in Valencia’s Palau de la Música, the event will also feature an incredible team of judges evaluating their tricks. Check the definitive list below!

Remember to follow all the action of the Red Bull Street Style World Final in the Red Bull and WFFA channels: don’t forget to tune in to the WFFA Twitch for the pre-show on Saturday, November 20th at 18h CET!

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

November 18, 2021
World Youth Freestyle Football Championship
The Freestyle Football community will celebrate the birth of a new competition this year: the best young freestylers on the planet will be offered a platform to showcase their talent in the World Youth Freestyle Football Championship, a global tournament aimed at male and female athletes under the age of 16.

This competition, which will open its registration process on August 16th and kick off in September through the official WFFA App, will happen on a fully digital basis. Participants will be asked to upload their videos in a dedicated section of the App between September 15th and September 21st; the judges will then evaluate their routines and select the best 16 athletes of the male and female categories, who will then face each other in a knockout stage consisting of quarterfinals, semifinals and a third-place battle. Each of these heats will feature battles of 3 rounds, all through the official App.

The World Youth Freestyle Football Championship will culminate in a Final that will be held online between November 1st and November 9th, 2021. The winners of this decisive showdown will have the opportunity to receive a full-year sponsorship of the WFFA partner SWRL and, most importantly, the title of most promising male and female u16 freestylers: the very future of the sport of Freestyle Football! Besides this, a total prize money amount of 3,000€ will be split between the winners, the runners-up and the third-placed athletes of the tournament in both the male and the female categories.
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Here is the full rundown of the tournament:
- Registration period (From August 16 to September 15): All athletes wishing to participate will need to enter the official WFFA App (available for Android and iOS in the respective app stores) and register
- Qualification round (From September 15 to September 21): All participants will need to upload their routine as a horizontal, 30-second video to the dedicated space in the App
- Top16 announcement (September 27): The selected participants for the knockout stage will be officially announced on the WFFA channels and notified in the App itself
- Round of 16 (From September 30 to October 11): Competitors will need to upload their 30-second routines to the dedicated space in the official WFFA App, and their opponents will have 24 hours to respond to them
- Quarterfinals (From October 11 to October 21): Same format as above
- Semifinals (From October 21 to November 1): Same format as above
- Third-place battle (From November 1 to November 9): Same format as above
- Final (From November 1 to November 9): Same format as above
- Winners announced (November 10): The WFFA channels will disclose the names of the male and female u16 World Champions!
The World Youth Freestyle Football Championship will be judged using the official WFFA rules (available here) by a list of renowned, first-class freestylers led by World Champions Melody Donchet (France) and Charly Iacono (Argentina). The luxury lineup will also feature another World Champion, Ricardo Chahini (Brazil), as well as huge names of the sport of the likes of Laura Biondo (Venezuela), Paloma P. Mayo (Spain) and Javi Sanz (Spain).

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June 17, 2021

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

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Tag: Javi Sanz

WFFA Youth Championship 2022

Registration

Competition structure

Format

Rules

Judges

Prizes

Freestyle Football gets a new queen and record-setting king in Valencia

The WFFA confirms the team of judges for the Red Bull Street Style 2021 World Final

World Youth Freestyle Football Championship