Victor Rubilar
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Victor Rubilar is an Argentinian professional football performer and comedian based in Sweden. He worked as a magician for three years in Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 before he decided to become a professional football freestyler / football juggler.
He moved from Argentina to Sweden to study at the school of contemporary arts in Cirkus Cirkör
Cirkus Cirkör
Cirkus Cirkör is a Swedish circus company, and is today Scandinavia's leading performing circus company within the art form of contemporary circus. Cirkus Cirkör has toured the world with a number of successful and praised circus shows...

. He specialized in football freestyling, football juggling
Juggling
Juggling is a skill involving moving objects for entertainment or sport. The most recognizable form of juggling is toss juggling, in which the juggler throws objects up to catch and toss up again. This may be one object or many objects, at the same time with one or many hands. Jugglers often refer...

 and acrobatics
Acrobatics
Acrobatics is the performance of extraordinary feats of balance, agility and motor coordination. It can be found in many of the performing arts, as well as many sports...

. He was also educated in the arts of performing, theatre and dance.

Riksteatern

After he finished his education he worked at the Swedish National Theatre Riksteatern
Riksteatern
Riksteatern is the name of the popular "National Touring Theatre"/"National Theatre Company" in Sweden. It's the biggest theatre company on tour in Sweden and can, in one way, almost be described as Sweden's national stage on tour....

 as a main character in a football show touring 6 months around Sweden. He performed "En Liten Föreställning om Fotboll" in over 40 cities all over Sweden.

Guinness World Records

In 2007 he broke three Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...

. The records he broke are "The most rolls of a football from temple to temple" (42), "The most footballs juggled" (5) and "The longest time to spin a football on the forehead" (19.96 seconds). In 2008 he broke the record of "The most rolls of a football from temple to temple" again . This time he did 67. Also he broke a new world record of "The longest distance travelled while balancing a ball on the forehead" (278 meters). Victor Rubilar has been featured on the Guinness Book of records in 2008 and 2009.
In 2010 Victor Rubilar set a new world record of "The most consecutive football rolls across the forehead". He did 581 at Cicerellos Fish 'n' Chips in Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia, on 1 April 2010.

Freestyle show

Victor Rubilar is consider by the press to be one of the best football performers in the world. He specializes on mixing football freestyle and football juggling skills with dance, acrobatics and comedy. During his career he have taken part in commercials for Coca Cola, Puma and Etisalat.
His shows are well known for combining football freestyle skills with world class juggling tricks with three and five footballs.
He did a show for Puma
PUMA AG
Puma SE, officially branded as PUMA, is a major German multinational company that produces high-end athletic shoes, lifestyle footwear and other sportswear. Formed in 1924 as Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik by Adolf and Rudolf Dassler, relationships between the two brothers deteriorated until the two...

 in Germany with the football star Pele, at the finals of the French league in front of 80.000 people at the Stade de France Stadium
Stade de France
The Stade de France is the national stadium of France, situated just north of Paris in the commune of Saint-Denis. It has an all-seater capacity of 80,000, making it the fifth largest stadium in Europe, and is used by both the France national football team and French rugby union team for...

. He have performed with Adidas
Adidas
Adidas AG is a German sports apparel manufacturer and parent company of the Adidas Group, which consists of the Reebok sportswear company, TaylorMade-Adidas golf company , and Rockport...

 in a Scandinavia tour (+Challenge), with Puma in Switzerland during the Euro Cup 2008.
Since the start of his career Victor Rubilar have done shows in over 30 countries in over 150 different cities all over the world. He performs between 100 to 200 shows a year in a media of 10/15 different countries per year.

Rampljuset

In 2009 Victor Rubilar was competing on a Swedish TV Talent show (Rampljuset) where he won the title of "The performer of the year".

Quotes from the Jury of the TV program:
"This was even better that the other two times you have been here. Every time you have been raising the bar".

"You are an extremely good entertainer. You get the audience with you everywhere and on exactly everything you do".

Comedy show

Victor Rubilar is a very versatile performer. Given the education he have had he performs not only on football freestyle shows but he also have performed in Theatre shows, fire shows and one of his specialities is comedy shows.
"Circus Super Star" is the name of his latest show. He developed this show in Argentina in 2007. This is a 45 minutes comedy show.

Description of the show:
Imagine an entire football arena combined with the sensation of watching a hilarious soap opera. During the show Victor Rubilar builds up an intense relationship between his latino character and the audience. This is a show with not only humor but a high technical level of juggling. Victor combines juggling with footballs, juggling balls, acrobatic, magic and loads of comedy.
Victor Rubilar have performed this award winning show all over Europe, The Middle East, Canada, India and South America.

TV appearances

In 2007 Victor participated on the Swedish version of America's Got Talent. He have presented his show twice on TV in Dubai (Dubai TV), In Egypt together with Etisalat.
In 2009 Victor won a TV Talent show in Sweden (Rampljuset)Rampljuset finals

Awards

Guinness World Records:
-Longest distance traveled while balancing a football on the forehead
-Most rolls of a football from temple to temple
-Longest time to spin a football on the forehead
-Most footballs juggled

Festivals:

-1st Place "People's Choice Award" Halifax Busker Festival
-1st Place "People's Choice Award" Victoria International Busker Festival
-1st Place "Director's Choice Award" Australian Champhionship of Surfers Paradise
-1st Place "People's Choice Award" Sault Ste. Marie Busker Festival
-1st Place "People's Choice Award" Port Credit Festival
-2nd Place "Director's Choice Award" Port Credit Festival

TV:
-1st Place TV talent Show (Rampljuset)

See Also

Hindustan Times Newspaper

DNA India Newspaper

Guinness World Records Day

Learn Football Freestyle

Asian Football Cup

WA Today Newspaper

Ystad Alehhanda

Metro Halifax 2010

Svenska Dagbladet

The Irish Times

Kulturen Tidningen

The Western Australian

Guinness World Records Blog

Metro News Canada

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