Daniel Cutting - Freestyle Football World Record 2011

Daniel Cutting - Freestyle Football World Record

Freestyle football champion Daniel Cutting has set yet another record to add to his bulging CV, as he performed 1534 keep-ups with a Swiss ball, which was caught on camera at Klick Fitness gym in Stoke.

The video showcases Daniel's amazing football skills and has already been shared by fans on the video sharing website, YouTube. Daniel already holds three other different freestyle football records and even acted as a body double for Real Madrid star Kaka in a famous Adidas advert.

His other world records include the quickest time to run 100 metres with a football balanced on the head, which he did effortlessly in 18.53 seconds; the most consecutive football rolls across the forehead at 1,810 and last but not least an incredible 153 touches, the most football touches with the lips in 1 minute.

Daniel is already well known for his champion freestyle football skills after appearances at top events around the world with famous footballers, performances at live shows with a range of celebrities, plus his work with many high profile brands and football clubs.

However, after Daniel's feat to set the record for the most keep-ups with a Swiss ball at the Klick Fitness gym, he is set to enjoy even wider recognition thanks to the YouTube clip which will no doubt be shared by many.

While at the gym Daniel also spared a bit of time to show off a number of impressive other skills too.

In between his trips around the world, he makes time to visit schools and youth groups where he has brought football freestyle skills to others, teaching them impressive football tricks and stunts. Staff and members of the Stoke gym are thrilled that he has managed to set another record in their gym.

Neil Currey, Club Manager at Klick Fitness Stoke, commented: 'We were extremely excited to have Daniel appear at our Stoke gym and our members were too! It was a memorable moment that will go down in Klick Fitness history - and we're not sure that our members will look at Swiss balls in the same way again! It just goes to show that there's never a dull moment at Klick Fitness gyms - you never know what might happen! We're hugely pleased for Daniel at his latest achievement.'

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Children set football Guinness World Record N-backed event in Gaza

Children set football Guinness World Record N-backed event in Gaza

For the second time in as many weeks, the children of Gaza set a Guinness World Record today in an event organized by the United Nations as part of its 2011 Summer Games programme – this time for the largest number of footballs dribbled simultaneously.

The event, involving 2,011 children, took place in Kherbit El-Addas, Rafah, just a few miles from the Khan Younis stadium, where on 30 June 3,500 children broke the world record for the largest number of parachute games.

“I want to congratulate the children of Gaza once again for their second world record in two weeks,” said Christer Nordahl, acting director of operations in Gaza for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

“As we’ve seen yet again, when given the opportunity, the children of Gaza can be the best in the world.”

For five years the UNRWA has staged the Summer Games – which include sports, arts and other activities – to provide a recreational outlet for an estimated 250,000 children in the Gaza Strip. This year’s games coincide with the fifth year of the Israeli blockade of Gaza.

“We need to lift the blockade and give the kids of Gaza a chance to fulfil their true potential,” said UNRWA spokesperson Chris Gunness.

“These records breakers evoke other world records,” he stated. “The Israeli blockade of Gaza has lasted longer than some of the most notorious sieges in human history.”

The next world record attempt will take place on 21 July, when children with special needs aim to create the largest ever hand-print painting. Then before the Games wrap up at the end of July, up to 10,000 children will attempt to smash their own record set last year for kite flying.

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World Oldest Fifa World Cup Volunteer - Amrit Daya

WHO says you can not have a ball at 80? Nelson Mandela Bay’s Amrit Daya is believed to be the oldest World Cup volunteer Fifa has ever had – and the evergreen Malabar resident is still reveling in it even though Cup fever has died down.
Not only is he putting together a collection of newspaper clippings, photographs and other football memorabilia, he is also in the process of getting a Fifa approval stamp on his accomplishment.
“I am busy getting the fact that I am the oldest ever World Cup volunteer certified by Fifa. I’ve also approached Guinness World Records to claim the record. But because no official records were held since the tournament started in 1930, Guinness would not recognise it,” Daya said.
A healthy and active Daya, who has been on retirement for 16 years, has become quite a celebrity since he became a Fifa volunteer.
“I’ve been on CNN, BBC, SATV, e.tv, AFP, Reuters and Morning Live, and that is just the television side of things. I’ve been in newspapers and on websites all over the world,” said Daya, who was 79 when the World Cup was on. He turned 80 on July 18.
Daya, who was responsible for meeting all Fifa delegates and VIPs at the Port Elizabeth Airport, said his age was never an obstacle.
“I am very fit and healthy. I think with my interview (to become a volunteer) they expected an old man with a beard and a stick, but I sure surprised them,” he quipped.
He decided to become a volunteer as he had been involved with community and charitable work since his retirement. “I thought this was a way to step it up a bit. A moment like this will definitely not come my way again.”
His World Cup experience lead to various “golden moments in his golden years”, he said.
“Not only did I do my bit for the tournament, I also turned 80 on the same day as Nelson Mandela. I celebrated my 60th wedding anniversary, my wife’s 77th birthday, my son’s 50th birthday and my granddaughter graduated.”
Daya said he attributed his longevity to regular yoga sessions and breathing exercise. He set some criteria for those who wanted to break his World Cup record. “I always joke that you have to be able to exercise daily, wash and polish your car and be a teetotaler.”


World Oldest Fifa World Cup Vounteer - Amrit Daya Video

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World Fastest Football kick by a Machine Castrol Ichi-go - Japan

On Saturday 19 June 2010, Japanese football fans gathered at Olympic Plaza of National Yoyogi Stadium in Tokyo to witness the Guinness Book of World Record for the fastest football kick achieved by a machine. Castrol, an official sponsor of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, has launched a project to create the world’s fastest kicking machine and has engaged a Japanese team to develop it.

                                            Castrol Ichi-go photo
The kicking machine is known as Castrol Ichi-Go and the project is the world’s first engine-driven free kick machine with super human power. It aims to produce an engine that has a steel leg that will deliver a free kick in excess of 200 km/h per hour.


Initially, the team were thinking of simply ‘placing’ a free kick machine in front of the goal. But then Castrol’s partner, Kogoro Kurata, joined the team. Kogoro is an artist who produces prominent, iron-made machines, robots and objects and has a policy to ‘create anything’ and is ‘more interested in creating difficult things than easy ones’.
When introduced to the project Kogoro said ‘I feel like I’m being set up. Right, damn it, if everyone is saying it’s impossible, let’s just do it. Why not give a try?’ and then he increased the scope of the development into creating a machine that runs the field, stands up in front of the goal and free kicks with its steel leg.
The ball goes too fast for the human eye.

World Fastest Football kick by a Football Kicking Machine - Castrol Ichi-go Video

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Thulani Ngcobo - Most Matches Attended at a FIFA World Cup set Guinness World Record

While South African citizens are still getting ready for the upcoming World cup, which starts in a month from now, a local, Thulani Ngcobo can’t believe his luck, as he is the winner of a fan competition which was held by MTN8, and that granted the winner 38 tickets for the same number of world cup fixtures.

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Thanks to these tickets, the lucky south African winner will have the chance to compete for the records of “most games watched at a Soccer World Cup”, when he gets to travel more than 17,000 kilometers in order to watch more than 3000 minutes of outstanding football in a whole month. The current record is set at 20 games, and Ngcobo is planning to assists to all 38 matches in order to come up with the record.

This of course is not going to come as an easy task for him, as in order to do so, he will have to be traveling from one place to another in a constant basis, for example, if there is a fixture at Cape Town at 1:30 pm, he will have to leave immediately after the match in order to assist to the next one at Soccer City at 8:30 pm.

Ngcobo, who is a resident of the township of Shoshanguve in Gauteng, is certainly satisfied with the prize, and is very thankful to MTN for allowing him to improve his lifestyle during the period on which the World Cup is going to be held at his country. He will fist go and watch the home team playing Mexico at the opening fixture.

The tickets will allow him to watch outstanding games such as Brazil playing against Ivory Coast, and the games for the 3rd and 4th positions at the playoffs.

The nineteenth edition of the FIFA World Cup will take place from June 11 to July 11, and it is the culmination of an elimination process that began in August 2007 and which involved a total of 204 FIFA national teams.

South Africa was chosen as the host of the cup after winning the bidding that also included Egypt, Libya-Tunisia (co-hosting) and Morocco. The South Africans obtained 14 votes, while the Moroccans obtained the remaining 10.

The Cup will be played in 10 (including Soccer City, Cape Town Stadium, and Moses Mabhida Stadium) venues across 9 cities, and it will count with 32 teams out of six confederations.

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Chris Beavon - Australian Football Trickster set World Record 2010

An Australian professional football trickster set a world record for most "around the worlds" in a minute on Thursday in a fundraising event aiming to tap into the World Cup fever sweeping the nation.

Chris Beavon, 19, performed the trick 21 times in 45 seconds before his legs gave out at the Westmead Medical Research Foundation's Football Freestyling contest in Westmead, west of Sydney.

The move involves tossing the ball from between instep and shin and making a full revolution around it with the foot before catching it again and repeating, and Beavon was the first person to attempt a world record with it.

He was disappointed with the result, which he said was hampered by a false start that tired his legs ahead of the record bid.

"My legs just died because it's such a strenuous trick," said Beavon, who has been freestyling for four years, two of them on the professional circuit.

"It's a little bit disappointing because I could have done a lot better. It's still a record, but not quite so impressive," he told AFP.

More than 100 children gathered to watch the bid and take part in a football tricks class with Beavon, who does stunts for commercials, corporate events and pre-match entertainment in Australia.

"With the World Cup coming up it's a big time for football," Beavon said.

His mother suffers from peripheral neuropathy, a painful foot and leg condition which makes it difficult to walk, and Beavon said her illness had driven him to take part.

"When I started doing freestyle football I wanted to do some events to help her out a bit because it's been quite tough on her and our family," he said.

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Fifa World Cup Final Viewers Prediction - Fifa World Cup South Africa 2010

The World Cup final on 11 July will vie with the 2002 World Cup final for the record of being the second most-watched live televised event in human history – behind the 2008 Olympic Games opening ceremony – according to Kevin Alavy, a leading authority on global TV viewing patterns in sport.

The tournament as a whole is expected to achieve record global viewership for one sporting event, rising by five per cent on 2006. “This reflects the unstoppable rise in the popularity of football,” Alavy says.

Alavy is a director of international analysts, Initiative Futures Sport + Entertainment, a firm that collates reliable data from organisations such as Nielsen and BARB for 55 major TV markets accounting for more than 90 per cent of TV households.

Initiative consider “in home” viewing only, and measure “average” audience, which is those who watch a programme in its entirety, and “reach”, which is those who watch at least a part.

The Beijing Olympics opening ceremony was the most-watched event in human history, with an average TV audience of 593m and a reach of 984m. With “out of home” viewing, it became the first “genuine 1bn” spectator event.

The previous most-watched event was the 2002 World Cup final between Germany and Brazil in Yokohama, Japan, which drew an average audience of 348m people. (Reach wasn’t measured at that time). The last World Cup final, between Italy and France in Germany in 2006, attracted a global average of 322m viewers, and a reach of 638m.

Alavy recently revised this 2006 figure slightly upwards (the reach was previously 609m) owing to new technologies allowing more accurate retrospective numbers. And yet he still expects the 2010 event to be up five per cent up on the last World Cup.

The event is attracting more women than ever before, a 41 per cent audience share in 2006 that Initiative think will be 42 per cent this year.

The World Cup’s audience is also getting richer, posher, or both. As recently as 2002, “upmarket viewers” (or ABC1s as they’re known in Britain) were one per cent less likely to watch the World Cup than non-upmarket viewers.

By 2006, upmarket viewers were six per cent more likely to tune in, and Initiative think this will rise again. “We think it’s part of the gentrification of the game,” Alavy tells sportingintelligence. “It’s also getting more expensive in general to follow, so the audience for football is changing slightly for that reason.”

Alavy forecasts that 2010 World Cup matches will see average audiences of around 125m people per match; or in terms that will shock most American TV viewers, 64 Super Bowl-size TV audiences inside a single month.

“No other media property delivers the same spikes in audience delivery, day-after-day, sustained over a month as the Fifa World Cup,” says Alavy. “In that sense, the World Cup can be described as the largest shared experience in the world – with all the communications implications and benefits that brings.”

As for the final, Alavy thinks the average audience will probably be between 330m and 350m people, perhaps higher. “But there can be a significantly different figure, depending who is in that final, of course,” he says.

The biggest numbers of all would be delivered, he says, if Brazil met England, a match-up only feasible if one or other fails to top their group and yet both go undefeated thereafter until the final.



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World's Largest Football Shirt Guinness World Records 2010 - Justin Walley

                              World's Largest Football Shirt Picture
Justin Walley, 39, from Hinckley in Leicestershire, is appealing to fans, players and clubs to donate shirts, which will be stitched together to make one huge top. He has 600 so far but needs about 2,000 to break the current record of 71.35m by 79.15m (234ft 1in by 259ft 8in). 

A number of Premier League teams have donated shirts.

Mr Walley, who is in South Africa after cycling there from Kenya ready for the World Cup, said Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Sunderland football clubs had taken part.

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World's Oldest Football Coach - Ivor Powell

A 93-year-old believed to be the world's oldest football coach is retiring after training more than 9,000 players over 37 years.

Ivor Powell began his career by signing for Queen's Park Rangers in 1933, over three-quarters of a century ago.

He was forced to put his football career on hold when the Second World War broke out and the RAF posted him to India.

While there he was reportedly introduced to spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi.

He went on to be the Wayne Rooney of his time, playing for Blackpool and Aston Villa, and setting a record transfer fee of £17,500 in 1946.

Born in Bargoed, Caerphilly, Mr Powell also played 14 times as a Welsh international.

For the past 37 years, he has trained players for the Bath University team - coaching thousands of footballers, most of them just a quarter of his current age.

In 2002, Mr Powell took Team Bath to the first round of the FA Cup, and six years later he was awarded the MBE for services to sport.


Now living in Colerne, Wiltshire, he describes football is his life.

He said: "I joke that I've been trying to get out (of the game) for years, but they won't let me. But really, I just can't get enough and can't imagine my life without football.

"I feel so proud of what I've done. I've been very, very happy at the University of Bath and I mean that.

"I'll still be putting on my boots and popping in once a week to keep an eye on things," he told the in Interview with newspaper
 Ivor Powell - World's Oldest  Football Coach Facts and Achievements.
In 2004, the former miner who was born in Bargoed, south Wales, was inducted into the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame.
At his playing peak in 1948, he set a record transfer fee for a halfback of £17,500 when he moved to Aston Villa.
One of his many coaching roles was alongside Don Revie when Leeds United was one of the top clubs in the country.
At Tuesday's party, held at the university's sports training village, Mr Powell received messages from around the world from people who were coached by him.
The Ivor Powell Sports Scholarship Fund will be administered by University of Bath Development and Alumni Relations.
Money donated to the fund, which already has £30,000, will provide scholarships for future undergraduates who are gifted both academically and in their chosen sport.
Professor Glynis Breakwell, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bath, said: "Ivor's dedication and commitment to coaching and sport over nearly four decades here at Bath has been an inspiration to thousands of young people."

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World's Longest Football Match set Guinness World Record - Dalit Community India

World's Longest Football Match set Guinness World Record - Dalit Community India

FOOTBALLERS took extra time to a whole new level when they smashed the world record for the longest game ever played.

Teams from the Cotswold Churches league scored a whopping 626 goals when they played a continuous 35 hours of football.

The Guinness World Record for the longest match was previously 33 hours.

Cambray FC, made up of members of the Cambray Baptist Church, faced the Cotswold All Stars team, from players from the churches league, in a bid to raise £30,000 to build a school for impoverished children in India.

Kick off at Bishop’s Cleeve Football Club was at 6.30pm on Friday and the full-time whistle was blown at 6.30am on Sunday when torrential rain stopped play.

The All Stars were crowned winners with a final score of 333 to 293.

Cambray player Andy Champion, 37, said he was impressed by how competitive the game was.
“We started off quite fast because we were all so excited, but I was actually surprised by the pace of some of the lads hours into the game,” he said. “It was a great effort, but the main thing is raising money for the school in India. Every player has raised about £1,000 each.”

Each squad had 18 players, each on the pitch for three hours at a time before being substituted during a five minute break. The time accrued through the breaks was taken off the total mach time.

For every hour played they earned a five minute break which they could accumulate for a longer rest.
None of the players was allowed to leave the area around the pitch so tents were pitched up along the sidelines, where Guinness invigilators watched on.

Food and drink was brought to them by family, friends and supporters.

The teams had hoped to play for 40 hours, but the heavy rain made the pitch too dangerous.
Pete Sheppard, 24, was on the All Stars team, and said the tiredness was the biggest hurdle. “We did a lot of intense training sessions but they don’t prepare you for how long an ordeal this is,” he said.
“90 minutes is a long time but you are playing double that before you have a break. That last hour, everyone is really counting down the minutes.”
As well as smashing the world record, the players are on target to reach their £30,000 fundraising total.

The money will help the Dalit community in India, who are considered outcasts and denied access to public areas such as parks.

RED International will take the money raised to build a school for the children.

In 2008 Cambray Baptist Church gave money to build a school in Kalayarkovil for 450 pupils.
Footballer’s wife Emily McKeown, who helped organise the event, said: “Supporters have been coming through the night to watch them and have even pitched up their tents as well.

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A UK teacher has set a new world record for 'the longest football throw

A UK school teacher,Danny Brooks has broken world's longest football throw-in record with his special flip throw that can cover half the length of a football field.

Danny Brooks has set a new world record for the longest football throw-in after perfecting a unique flip that launches the ball further than five double-decker buses.

Danny Brooks, 28, has perfected a special flip that enabled him to throw a football 49.78 metres (163ft 3.8in).

His flipping technique is within the rules because both of his feet are on the ground at the time of the throw.

After sending film footage and photos of this throw to the Guinness World Records, they announced the West Yorkshire-born man had set the new record.

Danny, of Halifax, was inspired to start throwing after watching Stoke's Rory Delap's long throws on the pitch.

The previous world record was set by America's Michael Lochner with a 48.17m throw in 1998.

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