Edward van Gils, aka "Edje" is the most famous
street football player in the world. Below is some info regarding his
street soccer career:
* Has his own specialty: the Akka. Edward mastered the Akka in all it's facets. Edward van Gils is also responsible for many street football tricks that are used today.
* Sponsored by Nike and Electronic Arts
* Did the Nike commercials called soccer tape which were for
ESPN.
* Did Nike Panna Knock Out. Commercials ( Panna K.O.)
* Competed in Panna K.O. And helped Nike to develop the game
and organize the tournaments. We toured Lisbon, Madrid, Barcelona, London and
Munich to do demonstrations for Panna K.O.
* While doing the demonstrations in London he was asked for
a new video game by EA Sports it is called Fifa street. This is a
game about street football with a lot of skills and when they saw him, they had
to have me for the motion capture.
* He also did the motion capture for Fifa Street II
& III. He also got his own character in the games.
* He did commercials for Coca Cola, Amstel Beer, Electronic
Arts and Nike with famous players like Ronaldinho and Ruud van Nistelrooy.
* He got a leading role in a short street soccer movie
called ‘’League of Legends’’. It stars professional players from the Dutch
national Team like Nigel de Jong, Johnny Heitinga and Edgar Davids.
* He won the Largest Street Football tournament in
Holland for three times in a row and twice he got picked out to be the best
player.
* Is founder of the Streetkings management and bookings agency