Top 20 Dribblers in Football History

Street-corner tricksters, World Cup showmen and modern one-on-one specialists, spanning six decades of taking defenders out of the game. Cast your vote!

1

Diego Maradona

Argentine No. 10 whose 60-yard run past five England players is FIFA's Goal of the Century.

1000pts

2

Garrincha

Brazilian winger who beat defenders with the same feint every time and still got away with it.

633pts

3

George Best

Northern Irish winger who tormented full backs at Manchester United in the 1960s.

542pts

4

Vinícius Júnior

Brazilian winger and Real Madrid's main one-on-one threat of the 2020s.

487pts

5

Ronaldinho

Brazilian playmaker who made the elastico and the no-look pass into showpieces.

422pts

6

Lionel Messi

Argentine forward whose low centre of gravity made him the most successful dribbler of the modern era.

422pts

7

Robinho

Brazilian forward whose pedalada stepovers made him Santos's next great hope.

422pts

8

Ronaldo Nazário

Brazilian striker whose stepovers at full sprint left defenders standing.

345pts

9

Arjen Robben

Dutch winger who cut inside from the right onto his left foot for two decades and nobody stopped it.

345pts

10

Cristiano Ronaldo

Portuguese forward who began as a stepover-heavy winger before turning into a pure goalscorer.

345pts

11

Johan Cruyff

Dutch forward whose turn is still taught by name in every academy.

345pts

12

Zinedine Zidane

French midfielder who used the roulette turn to escape two markers at once.

345pts

13

Neymar

Brazilian forward with the widest trick repertoire of his generation.

345pts

14

Luís Figo

Portuguese winger whose close control made him the world's most expensive player in 2000.

345pts

15

Ryan Giggs

Welsh winger whose solo run in the 1999 FA Cup semi-final is English football folklore.

253pts

16

Lamine Yamal

Spanish winger who became a Barcelona and Spain regular as a teenager.

253pts

17

Eden Hazard

Belgian winger who was almost impossible to dispossess at his Chelsea peak.

253pts

18

Jay-Jay Okocha

Nigerian midfielder whose showboating at Bolton and Paris Saint-Germain built a cult following.

253pts

19

Ricardo Quaresma

Portuguese winger who built a career on the outside-of-the-boot trivela and the rabona.

253pts

20

Pelé

Brazilian forward who combined three World Cup wins with feints that became textbook moves.

141pts