Jan Weber (also known as

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Weber, born 28 August 1986) is multiple World and European Freestyle

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champion. He has been playing footbag since 2001 and since 2002 competed at more than 200 professional footbag events and performed at more than 2000 public events. He had gained his Master degree at the

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and later became a professional freestyler. The biggest successes Weber achieved are 4 World Champion titles in doubles

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and also 4 World Champion titles in singles discipline, 3 in a row in years 2011, 2012 and 2013. After that Weber stopped competing and was primarily focusing on live shows and footbag promotion. However in 2020 he returned after 7 years for an online World championships, where he gained his 8th World Champion title and remained unbeaten. Weber has also started to play

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in 2010. He was a member of the organising crew of the first annual European Freestyle football in 2010 and first annual World Freestyle football championships in 2011 and 2012, all in

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. He finished 5th at both World Championships in one of the events called Sick3. He won the Sick3 event at 2012 Czech

championship and won the Czech Cup in 2013 and 2015. In 2010 he took part in Czech TV talent show called "Talentmania", where he managed to advance into the semifinals and perform a flawless routine there. A year later he entered another

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show with his

doubles partner Václav Klouda. They impressed the jury members and also managed to advance further in the competition. In 2012, he again entered the TV show with his freestyle team called "Freestyle Union". In September 2011 Weber won the first annual Czech and Slovak Skittling championships. Later in 2011 he also won The Prague University talent show with his Freestyle Union team (

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and

). The finals of the show took place in the Lucerna Palace in the centre of

with more than 5000 spectators. In 2010 Honza (a version of Weber's

name Jan and his international nickname) met one of his heroes

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. Honza performed in

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at Tony Hawk's charity event "Stand up for Skateparks". Most of Honza's charity activities are connected with the Czech

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organisation. Honza also holds more than 20 Czech and World freestyle records. In 2014 he became a face for the autumn TIKI-TAKA campaign of Cruyff Classics, the sports clothing brand named after the famous Dutch football player

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. In 2015 he was featured in the Nissan "Truckerball" commercial for The UEFA Champions League.

Top4Football TV

Honza`s football skills are visible through his online series call Top4Football TV, where he test the latest products with famous football players such as Petr Čech, Tomáš Rosický or Pavel Nedvěd, who also invited him for a guidance in Italian Juventus. There Honza also shot an episode with Bosnian star Miralem Pjanić. File:Footbag underground graffitti.jpg, Jan Weber Footbag photoshoot File:Honza Weber Freestyle.jpg, Jan Weber and Freestyle football balance File:Freestyle football Honza.jpg, Jan Weber during a photoshoot for Czech magazine File:Freestyle Soccer Weber.jpg, Jan Weber during Freestyle Soccer airmove File:Footbaghonza.JPG, World Footbag Champion 2011 & 2012 - Honza Weber

Awards and titles

2020

*World championships, singles - 1st place

2016

*World championships, request - 1st place *Czech championships, singles - 1st place

2015

*Czech cup Freestyle football - 1st place

2014

*Czech championships, singles - 1st place

2013

*World championships, singles - 1st place *World championships, circle - 1st place *World championships, request - 1st place

2012

*World championships, singles - 1st place *European championships, singles - 1st place

2011

*World championships, singles - 1st place *World championships, shred 30 - 01st place

2010

*Czech championships, singles - 1st place *European championships, singles - 1st place

2009

*World championships, singles - 3rd place *Czech championships, singles - 1st place *Czech championships, shred 30 - 1st place

2008

*European championships, singles - 3rd place *European championships, shred 30 - 1st place *European championships, doubles - 1st place *European championships, circle - 1st place *World championships, singles - 4th place *World championships, doubles - 1st place *Czech championships, singles - 1st place *Czech championships, shred 30 - 1st place

2007

*European championships, singles - 2nd place *European championships, shred 30 - 2nd place *World championships, doubles - 1st place *World championships, shred 30 - 4th place *Czech championships, singles - 1st place *Czech championships, shred 30 - 1st place

2006

*World championships, singles - 2nd place *World championships, shred 30 - 2nd place *Czech championships, singles - 2nd place *Czech championships, shred 30 - 2nd place *Czech championships, doubles - 1st place

2005

*European championships, singles - 2nd place *European championships, shred 30 - 2nd place *European championships, doubles - 1st place *World championships, singles - 2nd place *World championships, shred 30 - 2nd place *World championships, doubles - 1st place *Czech championships, singles - 2nd place *Czech championships, shred 30 - 2nd place *Czech championships, doubles - 1st place

2004

*European championships, singles - 2nd place *European championships, shred 30 - 1st place *European championships, doubles - 1st place *World championships, singles - 2nd place *World championships, shred 30 - 2nd place *World championships, doubles - 1st place *Czech championships, singles - 2nd place *Czech championships, shred 30 - 2nd place *Czech championships, doubles - 1st place

2003

*European championships, singles - 2nd place *European championships, shred 30 - 2nd place *World championships, singles - 4th place *Czech championships, shred 30 - 2nd place *Czech championships, doubles - 1st place

2002

*European championships, singles - 2nd place *Czech championships, singles - 2nd place *Czech championships, shred 30 - 2nd place *Czech championships, doubles - 3rd place

External links

HonzaWeber.com - Official website of the World Footbag Champion Jan Weber

International Footbag Players Association IFPA
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