Background
His father played for Tottenham Hotspur and his cousin played for Arsenal.
association football player YouTuber
His father played for Tottenham Hotspur and his cousin played for Arsenal.
He is probably best known for the YouTube channel he runs with fellow freestyle football player Jeremy Lynch as the, which has over 3 million subscribers. Wingrove comes from a footballing family. As he grew older he learned more tricks and became part of a network of young football freestylers in the London area.
In 2003, Wingrove entered the Nike freestyle competition in London Earl"s Court, and out of 6,000 contestants, he reached the semi-finals, losing out to Hee Young Woo.
Coca Cola, O2, Barclaycard, Disney and Sky Sports have all since used Wingrove for promotions or advertising. Wingrove has been working as a "professional" freestyle football player since the 2003 Nike Freestyle event in London.
Billy has performed his freestyle tricks and skills live on television for Nickelodeon, Blue Peter and Central News as well as performing on BBC1"s A Question of Sport and Match of the Day. In 2005, Wingrove appeared in a KDDI television commercial with Japanese football player Shinji Ono.
Shortly after this Wingrove appeared with Manchester United"s Wayne Rooney for a Coca-Cola promotion and was also featured with J-League stars in Japanese football magazine Footival.
Wingrove"s work has also been featured in the United Kingdom magazines FourFourTwo and Match. Wingrove became the first football freestyler to be signed up as a professional "Football Freestyler" by a professional club when Premier League team Tottenham Hotspur signed him. Wingrove displays and teaches his freestyle tricks and skills for Tottenham"s coaching in the community schemes, corporate sponsors and on the pitch for half time and pre-match entertainment for Premier League games.
He has also appeared as half time entertainment for England international matches.
They have given performances at various venues including Manchester United"s Old Trafford, Chelsea"s Stamford Bridge and Norwich City"s Carrow Road. Wingrove and Lynch also run a YouTube channel as the, which currently boasts over 3 million subscribers.
They give tutorials of various football skills and have collaborated with various football players including Eden Hazard, Ángel Di María, Juan Mata, Ander Herrera, Steven Gerrard, Neymar and Diego Costa.