Belgian freestyler Eric Szyburski broke a dog ornament in two after placing it on top of a football, joking that he thought it was real.

At the start of the clip he strokes it on the head as if it were indeed a real-life pooch, and then he does some kick-ups before standing on the ball with both feet.

Gesturing to the ‘dog’ that it’s its turn to perform the skill, he places it on the ball but it of course goes spinning off and splits in half.

Szyburski has twenty-three and a half thousand followers on Instagram.