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!
1Diego MaradonaArgentine No. 10 whose 60-yard run past five England players is FIFA's Goal of the Century.1000pts
2GarrinchaBrazilian winger who beat defenders with the same feint every time and still got away with it.633pts
3George BestNorthern Irish winger who tormented full backs at Manchester United in the 1960s.542pts
4Vinícius JúniorBrazilian winger and Real Madrid's main one-on-one threat of the 2020s.487pts
5RonaldinhoBrazilian playmaker who made the elastico and the no-look pass into showpieces.422pts
6Lionel MessiArgentine forward whose low centre of gravity made him the most successful dribbler of the modern era.422pts
7RobinhoBrazilian forward whose pedalada stepovers made him Santos's next great hope.422pts
8Ronaldo NazárioBrazilian striker whose stepovers at full sprint left defenders standing.345pts
9Arjen RobbenDutch winger who cut inside from the right onto his left foot for two decades and nobody stopped it.345pts
10Cristiano RonaldoPortuguese forward who began as a stepover-heavy winger before turning into a pure goalscorer.345pts
11Johan CruyffDutch forward whose turn is still taught by name in every academy.345pts
12Zinedine ZidaneFrench midfielder who used the roulette turn to escape two markers at once.345pts
13NeymarBrazilian forward with the widest trick repertoire of his generation.345pts
14Luís FigoPortuguese winger whose close control made him the world's most expensive player in 2000.345pts
15Ryan GiggsWelsh winger whose solo run in the 1999 FA Cup semi-final is English football folklore.253pts
16Lamine YamalSpanish winger who became a Barcelona and Spain regular as a teenager.253pts
17Eden HazardBelgian winger who was almost impossible to dispossess at his Chelsea peak.253pts
18Jay-Jay OkochaNigerian midfielder whose showboating at Bolton and Paris Saint-Germain built a cult following.253pts
19Ricardo QuaresmaPortuguese winger who built a career on the outside-of-the-boot trivela and the rabona.253pts
20PeléBrazilian forward who combined three World Cup wins with feints that became textbook moves.0pts
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Comments
Six assists at Mexico 1970 is still the record for a single World Cup, and Maradona's five in 1986 is the nearest anyone has come: https://youpick.best/articles/pele-vs-maradona-ranked
