Tokyo welcomes the world’s best football freestylers for DAZN World Freestyle Masters.

Tokyo is getting ready for the visit of the world’s most talented football freestylers, who will be in Japan for one week to compete at the DAZN World Freestyle Masters. This marquee event will take place on 22nd February 2018 at the prestigious Liquid Rooms venue in Japan’s capital city.

After qualifying through their successes and position in the official world rankings, the best 16 male and 8 female freestyle athletes in the world will battle it out head to head in a bid to become the World male and female Freestyle Football Champion 2018.

The sport of freestyle football is enjoyed globally by a monthly audience of over 50 million people, a number set to continue to rise thanks to the involvement of the headline sponsor for this event, DAZN.

DAZN is the exclusive broadcaster for the J.League – Japan’s professional football league and is one of the fastest growing OTT platforms in a number of markets around the world, offering a wide variety of premium live sport The DAZN World Freestyle Masters will be broadcast ahead of the opening weekend for the 25th anniversary of J.League as a celebration of football in Japan. DAZN subscribers in Japan will be able to watch the event and every game from J1, J2 and J3 live and exclusive on the platform..

In the female competition, the UK’s Liv Cooke is looking to take a second World Title at the age of 18, after winning the World Open Super Ball 2017. The male scene has been long dominated by the UK’s Andrew Henderson, but after 5 World Titles, he will be taking the head judge role in Tokyo and with the 2016 World RBSS Champion, Charly from Argentina injured, all eyes will be on the current highest ranked athletes today, Ricardinho (Brazil) and Michryc (Poland). Japan’s own Champion Yo Katsuyama will be competing in front of his home crowd and pushing to make a big impact.

Tickets for the event are just 600 Yen and can be purchased in advance at iFLYER

The event is accredited by the World Freestyle Football Association, which is the world governing body for the sport, headquartered in Canada.