Victor Rubilar is an Argentinian professional football performer and comedian based in Spain. He is an official Guinness World Record Holder. He worked as a
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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 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. The compan ...
.juggling
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and acrobatics
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. 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
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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 January 2018 Victor Rubilar broke the Guinness World Record of the most R.A.F (rolls of a football around the face) in one minute. The record was set live on a Spanish TV Program Luar and he managed to 40 R.A.F in one minute. Making it of a speed of one R.A.F every 1,5 seconds. He broke his own record that was set in October 2013 at the Maltepe Park Mall in Istanbul, Turkey. The original record was of 35 R.A.F in one minute.
In 2007, he broke three Guinness World Records
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in one day. 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
Rubilar specializes in mixing football freestyle and football juggling skills with dance, acrobatics and comedy. During his career he has taken part in commercials for Coca-Cola
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His shows are known for combining football freestyle skills with world-class juggling tricks with three and five footballs.
He did a show for Puma 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. He has performed with Adidas
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in a Scandinavia tour
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, with Puma in Switzerland during the Euro Cup 2008.
Since the start of his career he has performed in over 30 countries in over 150 different cities all over the world. He performs between 100 and 200 shows in around 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
One of Rubilar's specialties 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-minute 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, Dubai, Qatar, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, Canada, India, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore and South America.
TV appearances
In 2018 Victor Rubilar did an appearance on the TV Show '' Luar'' where he broke a Guinness World Record Live.
In 2017 Victor Rubilar appeared on the TV Show Luar and during the same year he did a performance in Saudi Arabia in front of the Prince of Saudi Arabia ''Mohammad bin Salman
Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud ( ar, محمد بن سلمان آل سعود, translit=Muḥammad bin Salmān Āl Su‘ūd; born 31 August 1985), colloquially known by his initials MBS or MbS, is Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia. H ...
''.
In 2007 Victor participated on the Swedish competition show '' Talang''. In 2009, he won the Swedish TV talent show ''Rampljuset''.
In 2010, he broke the ''Guinness World Record
''Guinness World Records'', known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as ''The Guinness Book of Records'' and in previous United States editions as ''The Guinness Book of World Records'', is a reference book published annually, listing world ...
'' of the most R.A.F in a minute live on ''Yetenek Sizsiniz Türkiye
''Yetenek Sizsiniz Türkiye'' is the local version of ''Got Talent'', published in Turkey.
Finalists Season 1
* Ali Ozan Bayram (Champion)
* Yusuf Ayata
* Alican Aslan (english)
* Hakan Akdoğan
* Bilal Göregen
* Hüsnü Mirza Turan
* Emre ...
'' (the Turkish version of the TV program "America's Got Talent").
Other awards
Victor Rubilar has won the most consecutive festivals in the world between 2011–2012, seven consecutive awards in three continents.
References
External links
Victor Rubilar official site
Victor Rubilar official fan page
Hindustan Times Newspaper
DNA India Newspaper
Guinness World Records Day
Learn Football Freestyle
Asian Football Cup
Metro Halifax 2010
Svenska Dagbladet
Kulturen Tidningen
The Western Australian
Metro News Canada
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Jugglers
Freestyle footballers
Swedish circus performers
Talang (Swedish TV series) contestants
Reality show winners
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Turkey's Got Talent contestants