Why do you think one of these player’s as successfully be a team play and lead their various team mate to glorious seasons with their dribbling skills.
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1. Eden Hazard
2. Ryan Giggs
It takes something special to become a Manchester United first-team regular aged 17, but this adopted son of Salford was exactly that. Crucially, Giggs was fearless with his runs down the wing as he tore defences apart, again and again.
Best moment Showing the world his hairy chest after the aforementioned 1999 FA Cup semi-final cracker against Arsenal. Though, as a withering Gary Neville said 15 years later (tongue firmly in cheek): “A little bit greedy…”
3. Cristiano Ronaldo
Ronaldo morphed from sulky stepover merchant into bona fide superstar at Old Trafford – but even those early days of boyish trickery were lovely fun. Eventually, skill was blended with monstrous physique to make for a Ballon d’Or-winning force of nature on the flank.
Best moment Ronaldo’s big breakthrough came in 2006/07, and featured a blistering individual goal at Fulham that started inside his own half. This lad is special, all right.
4. Steve McManaman
There’s a reason why Real Madrid were so keen to sign Macca in 1999: next to nobody in Europe could carry a ball upfield with such purpose as the mop-haired Liverpool wideman.
Best moment Take your pick. McManaman wasn’t short of fine solo goals. After scoring two of them to win the League Cup final in 1995, he ran virtually the length of the field to stun Celtic at Parkhead in a UEFA Cup tie two years later.
David Ginola
Most of the finest dribblers are slightly built. Well, apart from Adama Traoré. And Ginola, too, wanted to show us his muscles: his locks flowing behind him, the Frenchman combined power and skill to beat opponents and be a hero at Newcastle and Spurs.
Best moment Picking the ball up on the touchline, then darting past four players to score the only goal of an FA Cup quarter-final at Barnsley in 1999. It won BBC Goal of the Month – it would have won goal of the season, if the semis hadn’t delivered another amazing individual strike…
6. Thierry Henry
Henry was a cyborg composed of brute and beauty – but his dribbling prowess was arguably borne of the former. Velvet touches may stir the senses, but Titi knew there was a time and place for those… not least when you could just blitz a team from the halfway line.
Best moment You might say his solo Highbury strike against Spurs, but for importance, keeping Arsenal Invincibles on track in April 2004 takes some beating. The second goal of his treble against Liverpool was a glorious gallop through the middle which put Didi Hamann, Igor Biscan and Jamie Carragher – a victim of our No.8 as well, bless him – in a tailspin.
7. Chris Waddle
The winger was 31 by the time he joined Sheffield Wednesday at the start of the Premier League era, yet he became an Owls legend for skinning opponents week in, week out. Some teams put two men on him – and he would just dribble straight between them.
Best moment Using a stepover and drop of the shoulder to deceive Leeds’ Gary Speed in a Yorkshire derby at Elland Road, before lashing home the winner from a ludicrously acute angle – and all with his baggy jersey untucked like the worst ruffian.
8. Gianfranco Zola
He might have been about 3ft 7in, but Chelsea’s impish genius held his own in any duel. He gave Julian Dicks a nightmare mere weeks after his arrival in England from Italy, before dancing through Manchester United’s defence to score a similar beauty two months later.
Best moment Even at 36, Zola could mug the best, as his joyful corner-hogging against Liverpool in April 2003 proved. Three Reds players tried to rob him… all three failed.
9. Riyad Mahrez
You know a trick is good when everyone sees it coming and it still works a treat every time. Much like Arjen Robben, Mahrez and his chop inside has embarrassed a long line of foes, and the spindly-legged assassin continues to put it to regular, effective use for Manchester City.
Best moment Google ‘Mahrez Aston Villa’ – then watch him put three defenders on their backside with one 2015 feint for would-be champions Leicester.
10. John Barnes
Barnes won his top-flight titles when it was still the First Division, but he had seven years in the Premier League with Liverpool, Newcastle and Charlton, and was one of the finest dribblers England has seen.
Best moment All right, we’re cheating here, but when it comes to Barnes and dribbling, you can’t choose anything but his first goal for England, against Brazil at the Maracana. It’s a serious contender for the greatest goal in Three Lions history.
I’ll pick Thierry Henry as my best dribbler because he was probably the lone star in Arsenal at his peak and led them to an undefeated premier league title and many champions league qualifications and even a finals. Hazard also was a phenomenal dribbler for Chelsea and was instrumental to his team’s years of dominance. Ronaldo is a legend but he didn’t spend too long in England so most of his best times were in Spain.
Cristiano Aveiro Dos Santos Ronaldo.