Freestyle football has existed since the early 1900s but it has seen a surge in popularity as a result of global advertising campaigns and digital media sharing. In the early 21st century, Nike began an advertising campaign which relied heavily on the freestyle form of football, including video clips of freestyle performances. The videos are called Joga Bonito which means "play beautifully." These advertisements featured famous players such as Ronaldinho, Cristiano Ronaldo and Edgar Davids. Many link such mass media attention to the start of the freestyle craze. In the YouTube era, however, many previously non-famous players have risen to prominence, and internet searches easily yield thousands of videos by amateur "freestylers" around the world. Freestyle Football, also known as freestyle soccer is the art of expressing yourself with a football, while performing various tricks with any part of the body. Similar in style to keepie uppie it has become a widespread sport across the world and is practised by many people.
Freestyle Football and Normal Football have influenced eachother with different tricks created and used in eachother's form of football. Cristiano Ronaldo is one who has to freestyle tricks and tweaked them to be useable in the modern game. Another is Ricardo Quaresma another Portuguese football who has taken freestyle tricks and tweaked them, He also aswell as Ronaldo have videos of themselves freestyle footballing in the warm up to international games or club games
