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General Category => General Chat => Topic started by: NMelvynN on Nov 30, 2008, 12:05: AM
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The Biography of Billy Wingrove:
Source: Wikipedia
Billy Wingrove (born 15 November 1982 in London, England) is a British football freestyler.
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Wingrove began learning his football freestyle skills as a child. Beginning with the standard keepie uppie skills in the local park, Wingrove would stay behind when all his friends had gone home, to practice some extravagant soccer skills that would impress his friends and family.[1]
He began to study and copy some of the tricks shown on TV by Ronaldo, Romario and the rest of the Brazil squad in the famous Nike 'Airport' commercial.[1].
Wingrove comes from a footballing family, but unlike his father, who played for Tottenham Hotspur and cousin who played for Arsenal, Billy preferred to use and express his skills as an individual instead of as part of a team, although his talents have still established him with local semi-professional sides.
As he grew older he learned more and more tricks and became part of the network of young football freestylers in the London area. In 2003, Wingrove entered the Nike freestyle competition in London Earl's Court, and out of 6,000 contestants, he reached the semi-finals. Coca Cola, O2, Barclaycard, Disney and Sky Sports have all since used Wingrove for promotions or advertising.
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Wingrove has been working as a 'professional' football freestyler since the 2003 Nike Freestyle event in London.
Billy has performed his freestyle tricks and skills live on TV for Nickelodeon, Blue Peter and Central News as well as performing on BBC1's A Question of Sport and Match of the Day.[2][3]
In 2005 Wingrove appeared in a KDDI TV commercial with Japanese footballer Shinji Ono. Shortly after this Wingrove appeared with Manchester United's Wayne Rooney for a Coca Cola promotion and was also featured with J-League stars in Japanese football magazine Footival. Wingrove's work has also been featured in the UK magazines FourFourTwo and Match.
Wingrove became the first football freestyler to be signed up as a professional 'Football Freestyler' by a professional with his friend Fidan Morina from Kosovo club[4]when Premiership team Tottenham Hotspur signed him up. Billy displays and teaches his freestyle tricks and skills for Tottenham's coaching in the community schemes, corporate sponsors and on the pitch for half time and pre-match entertainment for Premiership games. He has also appeared as half time entertainment for England international matches.
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BILLY deserve it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This is more like it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Wingrove
edit; lol wtf they removed it in like 5 seconds
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i spiced it up a bit on wikipedia:
Billy "Skora" Wingrove (born 15 November 1982 in London, England) is a British football freestyler.
Wingrove began learning his football freestyle skills as a child. Beginning with the standard keepie uppie skills in the local park, Wingrove would stay behind when all his friends had gone home, to practice some extravagant soccer skills that would impress his friends and family. Soon he moved on to more advanced tricks such as "ahmatw" and "satw" which are Around The World variations. His signature move is the Billy Death Flip where he kicks the ball up with one foot, and does a full 360 rotation around it with the other foot[1]
He began to study and copy some of the tricks shown on TV by Ronaldo, Romario and the rest of the Brazil squad in the famous Nike 'Airport' commercial. He also learned numerous difficult tricks from a well-established Pro Freestyler, John Acquaviva [1].
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i spiced it up a bit on wikipedia:
Billy "Skora" Wingrove (born 15 November 1982 in London, England) is a British football freestyler.
Wingrove began learning his football freestyle skills as a child. Beginning with the standard keepie uppie skills in the local park, Wingrove would stay behind when all his friends had gone home, to practice some extravagant soccer skills that would impress his friends and family. Soon he moved on to more advanced tricks such as "ahmatw" and "satw" which are Around The World variations. His signature move is the Billy Death Flip where he kicks the ball up with one foot, and does a full 360 rotation around it with the other foot
He began to study and copy some of the tricks shown on TV by Ronaldo, Romario and the rest of the Brazil squad in the famous Nike 'Airport' commercial. He also learned numerous difficult tricks from a well-established Pro Freestyler, John Acquaviva .
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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i spiced it up a bit on wikipedia:
Billy "Skora" Wingrove (born 15 November 1982 in London, England) is a British football freestyler.
Wingrove began learning his football freestyle skills as a child. Beginning with the standard keepie uppie skills in the local park, Wingrove would stay behind when all his friends had gone home, to practice some extravagant soccer skills that would impress his friends and family. Soon he moved on to more advanced tricks such as "ahmatw" and "satw" which are Around The World variations. His signature move is the Billy Death Flip where he kicks the ball up with one foot, and does a full 360 rotation around it with the other foot[1]
He began to study and copy some of the tricks shown on TV by Ronaldo, Romario and the rest of the Brazil squad in the famous Nike 'Airport' commercial. He also learned numerous difficult tricks from a well-established Pro Freestyler, John Acquaviva [1].
LMAO Class Dan. :biggrin: Billy Death Flip lol
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OMG lol dans shit is actually there on wiki lol
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i spiced it up a bit on wikipedia:
Billy "Skora" Wingrove (born 15 November 1982 in London, England) is a British football freestyler.
Wingrove began learning his football freestyle skills as a child. Beginning with the standard keepie uppie skills in the local park, Wingrove would stay behind when all his friends had gone home, to practice some extravagant soccer skills that would impress his friends and family. Soon he moved on to more advanced tricks such as "ahmatw" and "satw" which are Around The World variations. His signature move is the Billy Death Flip where he kicks the ball up with one foot, and does a full 360 rotation around it with the other foot[1]
He began to study and copy some of the tricks shown on TV by Ronaldo, Romario and the rest of the Brazil squad in the famous Nike 'Airport' commercial. He also learned numerous difficult tricks from a well-established Pro Freestyler, John Acquaviva [1].
LMFAO!!!!!!!!!! You're a genius hahahahahha!
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i hate this bit about staying behind for extra practice, thats complete bullshit. Everyone says it.
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I thougt i would add my take on things...
As he grew older he learned more and more tricks and became part of the network of young football freestylers in the London area. In 2003, Wingrove entered the Nike freestyle competition in London Earl's Court, and out of 6,000 contestants, he reached the semi-finals. Coca Cola, O2, Barclaycard, Disney and Sky Sports have all since used Wingrove for promotions or advertising.
Billy wingrove recently married jeremy lynch, they share a flat together in east cheshire.
However recently there has been a fude between them because jeremy found out about billys fling with oli hayes, billy and jeremy are still trying to make the relationship work, however we all know it will never have the same romance it did at the beggining.
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Hah, is this why teachers tell us the Wikipedia is not a reliable source? :biggrin:
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OMG lol dans shit is actually there on wiki lol
yeah
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I thougt i would add my take on things...
As he grew older he learned more and more tricks and became part of the network of young football freestylers in the London area. In 2003, Wingrove entered the Nike freestyle competition in London Earl's Court, and out of 6,000 contestants, he reached the semi-finals. Coca Cola, O2, Barclaycard, Disney and Sky Sports have all since used Wingrove for promotions or advertising.
Billy wingrove recently married jeremy lynch, they share a flat together in east cheshire.
However recently there has been a fude between them because jeremy found out about billys fling with oli hayes, billy and jeremy are still trying to make the relationship work, however we all know it will never have the same romance it did at the beggining.
I just corrected your spelling and grammar on the wiki page to make it seem more legit :biggrin:
:lol: daniel is a genius
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"...trying to make the relationship work, however we all know it will never have the same romance it did at the beginning. Though Billy has just married Shwatzinigga and Berno Woo, they each take turns performing new shits in their mouth while performing death flips.
Billy's signature move is AAPATW testie stall-backpack stall-cartwheel 360 berno hommie atw-----NT"
---wtf? :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Classic thread. But what everyone got against this lad??
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Classic thread. But what everyone got against this lad??
does it matter when it's THIS hilarious? hahahahahahaha
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Classic thread. But what everyone got against this lad??
does it matter when it's THIS hilarious? hahahahahahaha
somebody find a picture of skora and put it in as his profile picture or whatever
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Classic thread. But what everyone got against this lad??
does it matter when it's THIS hilarious? hahahahahahaha
somebody find a picture of skora and put it in as his profile picture or whatever
i think in a battle, billy could beat skora. honestly.
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Classic thread. But what everyone got against this lad??
does it matter when it's THIS hilarious? hahahahahahaha
somebody find a picture of skora and put it in as his profile picture or whatever
i think in a battle, billy could beat skora. honestly.
nah 'cause skora doesn't mess up much
he is bascically a machine, so it depends on the crowd
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Classic thread. But what everyone got against this lad??
does it matter when it's THIS hilarious? hahahahahahaha
somebody find a picture of skora and put it in as his profile picture or whatever
i think in a battle, billy could beat skora. honestly.
nah 'cause skora doesn't mess up much
he is bascically a machine, so it depends on the crowd
crowd would be very impressed at first..... then get bored.
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Classic thread. But what everyone got against this lad??
does it matter when it's THIS hilarious? hahahahahahaha
somebody find a picture of skora and put it in as his profile picture or whatever
i think in a battle, billy could beat skora. honestly.
nah 'cause skora doesn't mess up much
he is bascically a machine, so it depends on the crowd
crowd would be very impressed at first..... then get bored.
it would depend on whether or not he varied his performance...I mean he is pretty good in all 4 disciplines, and he has gotten fairly creative recently...
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Classic thread. But what everyone got against this lad??
does it matter when it's THIS hilarious? hahahahahahaha
somebody find a picture of skora and put it in as his profile picture or whatever
i think in a battle, billy could beat skora. honestly.
nah 'cause skora doesn't mess up much
he is bascically a machine, so it depends on the crowd
crowd would be very impressed at first..... then get bored.
it would depend on whether or not he varied his performance...I mean he is pretty good in all 4 disciplines, and he has gotten fairly creative recently...
what most freestylers don't realize is that it's not enough to be pretty good in all different types of freestyle. lowers, uppers, sitdowns, and no he can't do good grounds.
you also need entertainment value, performance, experience, charisma, ability to interact with the crowd, and etc.
u don't have to be the most skilled freestyler to be the better freestyler.
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Classic thread. But what everyone got against this lad??
does it matter when it's THIS hilarious? hahahahahahaha
somebody find a picture of skora and put it in as his profile picture or whatever
i think in a battle, billy could beat skora. honestly.
nah 'cause skora doesn't mess up much
he is bascically a machine, so it depends on the crowd
crowd would be very impressed at first..... then get bored.
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As he grew older he learned more and more tricks and became part of the network of young football freestylers in the London area. In 2003, Wingrove entered the Nike freestyle competition in London Earl's Court, and out of 6,000 contestants, he reached the semi-finals. Coca Cola, O2, Barclaycard, Disney and Sky Sports have all since used Wingrove for promotions or advertising. Right now, Billy is getting ready for another commercial. This time, it will be a Huggies commercial where Billy has to do his best in order to make the baby stop peeing all over. Billy says it's going to be an unforgettable experience and he's spending 6 hours a day training for it.
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As he grew older he learned more and more tricks and became part of the network of young football freestylers in the London area. In 2003, Wingrove entered the Nike freestyle competition in London Earl's Court, and out of 6,000 contestants, he reached the semi-finals. Coca Cola, O2, Barclaycard, Disney and Sky Sports have all since used Wingrove for promotions or advertising. Right now, Billy is getting ready for another commercial. This time, it will be a Huggies commercial where Billy has to do his best in order to make the baby stop peeing all over. Billy says it's going to be an unforgettable experience and he's spending 6 hours a day training for it.
and will perform the billy death flip on the babies
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To assure their happiness. xD
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As he grew older he learned more and more tricks and became part of the network of young football freestylers in the London area. In 2003, Wingrove entered the Nike freestyle competition in London Earl's Court, and out of 6,000 contestants, he reached the semi-finals. Coca Cola, O2, Barclaycard, Disney and Sky Sports have all since used Wingrove for promotions or advertising. Right now, Billy is getting ready for another commercial. This time, it will be a Huggies commercial where Billy has to do his best in order to make the baby stop peeing all over. Billy says it's going to be an unforgettable experience and he's spending 6 hours a day training for it.
and will perform the billy death flip on the babies
and go skora atw with the nappies!!!!! :lol: