Best dribblers in the world

Alkene

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An interesting article that focuses on the most skilled players in the world. This list overlaps with the world's best overall players, and provides further evidence that the black "superior athletes" have no technique and skill in this sport, but almost entirely rely on physical attributes. But the elite players of the world, most of whom are White, also possess great athleticism. Some of the world's fastest players of recent years have been Ronaldo, Robben, Ribery, Kaka, Torres, and others.

20 out of the 48 players on the list are White Europeans. 2 more are French-born Arabs Nasri and Hatim Ben Arfa. There are 6 Argentines, 1 Chilean, and 1 Uruguayan, most of whom are either racially White or mestizo.

There are 10 Brazilians on the list. 2 of them are White (Kaka, Pato); Hulk and Hernanes are mestizo. Neymar and Ronaldinho are triracial, although I question their inclusion because Neymar is overrated rubbish. Thiago, Douglas Costa, and Lucas Moura look like mulatto, and of these only Douglas Costa has proven himself at a high level. Only Robinho is predominantly Black, but I disagree with his inclusion because he's been a massive, overrated flop everywhere he's played. So I think the flaw of this list is its favoritism towards Brazilians, because looking at the Brazilian national team right now, they have a bunch of average players, with mainly Danny Alves and Lucio that can be called world-class.

The only Black African on the list is the Nigerian Nwankwo Kanu, who played with Arsenal. Then there's the Dutch black Eljero Elia, who right now looks like a Juventus flop. Portuguse Cape Verdean Nani is a mulatto, who's admittedly a quality player. And the Man United legend Ryan Giggs has some Black ancestry.

The list below:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...-the-best-dribblers-in-world-football/page/35

Aiden Mceady - Spartak Moscow, Irish
Erik Lamela - Roma, Argentine
Nwankwo Kanu - Nigerian
Douglas Costa - Shakhtar. Brazilian Black
Javier Zanetti - Inter. Argentine
Hernanes - Lazio. Brazilian mestizo
Esequel Lavezzi - Napoli - Agentine
Stevan Jovetic - Fiorentina Yugoslavian.
Eljero Elia - Juventus - Black Dutch
Hatem Ben Arfa - Newcastle United - North African
Christian Eriksen - Ajax - Danish
Ronaldinho
Lucas Moura - Brazilian mulatto
Xherdan Shaqiri - FC Basel - Albanian
Marko Marin - Werder Bremen - German of Yugoslavian descent
Ibrahimovic - Milan - Swede of Yugoslavian descent
Alexander Pato - Milan - White Brazilian
Milos Krasic - Juventus - Yugoslavian
Paddy McCourt - Celtic - Northern Irish
Iker Munian - Athletic Bilbao - Spanish
Arda Turan. Turk
Juan Mata - Chelsea - Spanish
Mesut Ozil - Real Madrid - German-born Turk
Hulk. FC Porto. Brazilian mestizo
Thiago Alcantara - Barcelona - Brazilian mixed race
Pedro Rodriguez - Barcelona - Spanish
Wesley Sneijder - Inter - Dutch
Mario Gotze - German - Dortmund
Angel Di Maria. Real Madrid. Argentine
David Silva - Man City - Spanish
Robinho - Milan - Brazilian black
Robin Van Persie - Arsenal - Dutch
Samir Nasri - Man City - French Algerian
Alexis Sanchez - Barcelona - Chilean
Juan Riquelme. Argentina
Eden Hazard. OSC Lille. Belgian
Arjen Robben. Dutch
Ryan Giggs - Man United - Welshman with some black ancestry
Sergio Aguero - Man City - Argentina
Franck Ribery - Bayern - French
Kaka. - Brazilian White
Luis Suarez - Uruguay
Xavi - Spain
Neymar. Brazilian
Nani. Man United. Cape Verdean mulatto
Ronaldo. Portugal
Iniesta - Spain
Messi - Argentina
 
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the ability to dribble might be the hardest thing to evaluate
they did a great job i think

except for the french players
they put 2 arabs in the list, and mentioned that nasri was called the "new zidane" :icon_rolleyes:
they say this about every arab player in france
ben arfa shouldn't be in the list too

that's where evaluating dribbling ability can become difficult
when you see videos about these arabs they seem very skilled
but there are tons of arab wannabe cristiano ronaldo who know how to do every skill, but they can't do it in a match
for example a stepover (like these http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GCR3FmhX1U&feature=related) is easy to do, but what is hard is to do it at the right moment, with the defender at the right distance while coming at the right speed ect
an example of an arab with great skills, but he will never come close to zidane: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoEr1unYXRk (the kid in this video is, as zidane, a kabyle, but he looks a LOT more arab-******* than zidane)
there are TONS of arabs with similar skills, in every french city, but they are not great soccer players, they can't get past a defender with those skills
another examples of over rated arab "magicians" :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HltTOwl8ym8


it hurts most french arabs, but zidane was a white player, he was not 100% white (far from it), but what made him great were his white features
and this is the french player they should have put in the list, the real new zidane, yohann gourcuff:

[video=youtube;tiHf18FwziE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiHf18FwziE&feature=related[/video]

[video=youtube;Yx01bg3zVso]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx01bg3zVso&feature=plcp&context=C33f4146U DOEgsToPDskLdaNvM4Qv7O4Gp9Reo0Ggs[/video]

he is a white european, not surprising since zidane was great because of his white features

it's also funny because these arabs do very complicated and elaborated tricks, while zidane played quite simply, and he didn't know how to do half of the tricks these arab wannabe cristiano ronaldo do

by the way ben arfa and nasri did nothing in french ligue 1, while gourcuff allowed bordeaux to be the best ligue 1 team while he was there, was named best ligue 1 player, and did great with bordeaux in champions league

regarding neymar, i have mixed opinion regarding him
sometimes he looks like the next robinho (wich is not a good thing) but sometimes he impresses me more
one thing is for sure, he is currently far too skinny to play at a high level
pato is the best brazilian player today, and maybe the best in the world

i agree that hernanes, thiago alcantara and robinho shouldn't be in the list
 
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menez has to be added to the best dribblers in the world now, he's awesome


against zagreb he did an incredible match

that's typically the kind of player who would be bashed in the english speaking world because he's inconsistent, but dribblers need to be inconsistent
in england players like nani are highly rated because they are consistant, but actually nani gets passed a defender on really rare occasions
that's why sometimes i don't like this scientific approach of football
a player like rivaldo wouldn't have succeeded in england either
but in spain he won the golden ball
well, that's a cultural difference
but when you play in a position where you have to make the difference, it's better to be dreadfull on 90% of the match and to be good on 1 occasion and win the match on your own, than to be OK during 90 minutes whithout making the difference
 

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it's also funny because these arabs do very complicated and elaborated tricks, while zidane played quite simply, and he didn't know how to do half of the tricks these arab wannabe cristiano ronaldo do

this is he video i had in mind while writing this:

[video=youtube_share;YkwlcRjpJw4]http://youtu.be/YkwlcRjpJw4[/video]

it shows henry learning a trick to zidane
it was a shock to see this, nobody would have thought that henry knew tricks that zidane didn't
but it shows that the most skilled players are not the ones who do the most fancy tricks
 
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