In the last ten years or so since freestyle soccer has become popular, young kids all over the world have been given a difficult choice to make. Do they try to become the next Kaka or do they try to become the next John Farnworth? It is a choice of one or the other if a person wants to become a professional, you simply don't have enough time to reach the highest level at both sports.

Traditional soccer/football is the most popular sport in the world without question, but the new trendy freestyle street version is starting to become appealing to young boys and girls. The television advertisements from Nike have made freestyle soccer tricks one of the hottest new trends and there is no sign that it has peaked yet either.

At present a professional footballer still makes a heap more money and is more famous than a professional freestyler, but is it always going to stay this way. The massive wages and fame of players such as Kaka, Cristiano Ronalso, Lionel Messi, Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard and David Beckham is enough to make any young kids head spin. To be able to get to the level of these players it is imperitave that the child starts taking it seriously at a very young age, even as young as five years old. The child needs to have a passion for playing football, and not be forced into it by a demanding parent(s).

Raw passion and determination is not enough to make it, the kid needs to have natural ability, strength and stamina. It is usually fairly easy to pick out which kids have a chance of making it and which ones don't. The kids that are fortunate to have what it takes, also need to have the right attitude and discipline to make their dreams come true. There are no shortcuts to becoming a professional soccer player at the highest level, it is years of training and hard work to get there.

So, how to train to be be a freestyler? A freestyler can start at a later age compared to a footballer, but the general principles of lots of practice (and more practice) and discipline are the same for a wannabe freestyler. It is always best to start off with simple juggling then work up to doing basic tricks. Freestyling is more appealing to a lot of modern day kids. The soccer tricks of a freestyler are far more exciting for kids these days, compared to watching a football match. It is the new cool thing to learn and all there mates are doing it as well. It can almost be compared to a rapper who does cool dance moves to cool music and people love it. There is also much less risk of injury and a person of any size or shape (except overweight) can do it.

Does this mean that freestyling will be more popular than traditional football in the future. The answer is probably not, but that does not mean that freestyling will not get bigger and bigger in the future. Freestyle soccer will get even more popular over time, there is no doubt about it. It is one of the largest growing keywords on the online search engines, and websites about freestyle soccer tricks are popping all the time. If you are interested in learning how to do freestyle soccer there are loads of YouTube videos or you can  have a look at an excellent new site at http://www.howtolearnfreestylesoccer.com/