There's never been a better time to get involved in freestyle football with some of the world's best coming to Australia this year

The stiffness of Australian society hasn't always been street and freestyle football's best friend, but those who love the sport's freedom and artistry are carving out a niche around the country.

The global home of street football - Amsterdam - is one of the most liberal cities in the world.

In Australia, it can be harder to start a pick-up game outside your house.

But in quiet laneways, as well as schoolyards and urban squares, young Australians are embracing the speed and skill of street and freestyle football.

In particular, freestyle football is "exploding" Down Under.

Every capital city in Australia has a favourite haunt for freestyle footballers to show off the latest skills, whether it's behind Fed Square in Melbourne or at Sydney's Darling Harbour.

Freestyle football combines juggling, breakdancing and silky skills.

Social media - particularly Instagram and YouTube - is full of freestyle footballers sharing new skills.

Paul Harvey - president of the Oceania Freestyle Football Federation - can barely keep up with freestyle football's growth in Australia but has a theory why street football is taking longer to establish itself.

"[It's] all about humiliating your opponent with a nutmeg and a lot of kids don't like getting humiliated, basically," he told Goal Australia.

But street football's lack of inhibition is steadily gathering converts in Australia as young footballers look to hone their skills.

The lack of tactical structure means players are free to try whatever enters their imagination.

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Daniel Cappellaro, one of Australia's finest street footballers, loves the game's simplicity: "You just go and play and it's all about technical ability, quick feet, speed of play."

It's not just urban Australians getting involved either.

In the Victorian town of Sale, a group of street footballers has steadily grown over the past three years with around 40 players now meeting every Friday night at a local school to play one-on-one and small-sided games.

With the World Freestyle Football Tour coming to Melbourne in December, Australian freestyle and street football is only expected to grow.