After several rounds of sweat, skills, music, and fever-pitch cheering at the car
park of Accra Mall, 12-year old, Godwin Ashitey Armah was adjudged winner of
the 3rd Edition of Red Bull Street Style Ghana competition. He beat Prosper in
the final faceoff, by impressing judges with his creative footworks and nifty
controlling with his head . Godwin won an all-expenses paid trip to represent
Ghana at the Red Bull Street Style World Championship in Brazil, this November.
The competition started with 16 of the best soccer freestylers in Ghana exhibiting
their skills in separate bouts. Judge and former Blacks Stars player Laryea
Kingston, who has been with the competition over the last 3 years, admitted that
freestyle soccer has come to stay and will encourage every young talent in it to
give his best just as main stream soccer. The other two judges were Godwin
Attram and Salim Baroudi. In addition to the amazing soccer skills, the crowd
was charged with exciting performances by Stonnebwoy and Naterial with mixes
from DJ Master Jay.
The Red Bull Street Style competition is a world tournament which brings all the
best soccer freestylers under one umbrella to compete for the best. The
competition is a battle of tricks and skills between 2 players on a stage and it’s
very common in many parts of the world where freestyle soccer has culminated
into the highest level. In Ghana, only a few talented players are found in this
game however, with the inception of the national contest by Red Bull since 2011,
many people have gotten involved and audience or spectators cannot hide their
excitement on such platform. The first Red Bull Street Style competition took
place at the National theatre where Bright Amoako-Danquah emerged the winner
and represented Ghana in Italy 2011.Last year, Joel Asare unseated the
defending champion to represent Ghana in Japan. The Red Bull Street Style is a
tournament continuous to project the best soccer freestylers in the world. It was
first held in 2008 in Brazil and has gradually grown to be the most patronized
freestyle competition.
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