Lionel Messi and Neymar may be playing their football away from the spotlight nowadays, but a new generation of exciting players have emerged to take their place as the dribble kings of European football.
A perfectly executed dribble arguably remains the most thrilling sight in football and there are some sensationally talented ballers that possess the ability to have the opposition left regularly eating their dust.
Ranked by the total number of successful dribbles completed, here are the 10 dribblers across Europe’s five major leagues (Premier League, La Liga, Ligue 1, Serie A and Bundesliga) so far in 2023-24. If two players are tied, we’ve put them in order of who has the superior success ratio.
Considering Doku has only racked up 780 minutes of football this season, it’s impressive in itself that he manages to make this list.
The Manchester City winger has been a nightmare for opposition full-backs to track and we can’t wait to see more of him in the second half of the campaign.
Talked up as the next great German export from the Bundesliga, Wirtz is only 20 years old but already has over 100 appearances under his belt for boyhood club Bayer Leverkusen.
Just as adept at creating chances as he is at dribbling, Wirtz has grown into a talismanic figure for Xabi Alonso’s table-topping side.
Following in the footsteps of Brian Montenegro as one of our favourite real-life footballers that sounds like a Football Manager regen, Granada’s Bryan Zaragoza is a player worth keeping an eye out for.
The lesser-known 22-year-old has burst onto the scene in La Liga this year after coming up through Granada’s academy and helping them get promoted last term. He’s now a Spain international and made headlines earlier in the campaign for a
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