Who Created Freestyle Soccer?

Over the last decade freestyle soccer has turned into a craze. Everyday a handful of talented tricksters are posting their amazing soccer skill videos on websites like YouTube, Metacafe and Facebook whilst millions of fans all over the globe spend hours on end, marvelling at the complexity of such audacious moves performed with a ball.

What fans seem to forget though is where did it all start, who created freestyle soccer? For those who are curious to know, you first have to take the journey to where it all began...

It has been well known throughout a very long period of time that soccer has been coined as 'the beautiful game'. The reason for this being is quite simply because it is a sport in which you can use almost your entire body - apart from your hands and arms - to decide the outcome of a ball game, whether through the use of a feint or trick, a controlled trap on the chest or knees, but most of the times through a powerfully executed strike - unlike any other sport.

Although soccer had such flexible rules from the start of it's existence, the most notable player to have taken considerable advantage over these rules was Pele. Commencing in the late 1950's Pele took soccer to a whole new level by performing dazzling tricks and maneuvers (never seen before with a ball) and totally fooling opponents on the field - left, right and center. Fortunately for everybody, it wasn't long after players and coaches discovered why he had possessed strikingly abnormal abilities. It turned out that Pele had practiced keeping the ball up in the air with various parts of his body since a young age and continued developing these particular skills in training. It was after this discovery that many players followed in Pele's footsteps, thus freestyle soccer was born - not the name but certainly the concept, and the creator most likely being Pele.

So, where is the proof?

It was very unlikely freestyle soccer was created before Pele's era because of the fact that balls were too heavy. Also take note that Pele has many old coaching videos where he shows you how to use parts of your body to keep the ball up in the air. These videos can be purchased through many websites on the internet. It is possible that Pele was the first top soccer player to have a his/her coaching video released.

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