Best technique

Discussion in 'Players & Legends' started by Alessandro10, Jan 30, 2019.

  1. Betrayed@Krondor

    Jul 11, 2023
    We're just slowly converging around this old clip of Richard Witschge now:



    And on another level entirely, this, from Ronaldinho:
     
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  2. Betrayed@Krondor

    Jul 11, 2023
    Messi doesn't really have a ton of these, but I always thought the bit at 6:40 here deserved more love:
     
  3. Frank73

    Frank73 Member

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    Jose Leandro Ferreira was the best-tecnique equipped defender ever. To me, his style resembles that of Bergkamp. But smoother and more refined. Had he done these plays in one of the five european Powerhouses of football he would have been Ballon d'Or (if Zidane got it...).

     
  4. carlito86

    carlito86 Member+

    Jan 11, 2016
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  5. Tom Souster

    Tom Souster Member

    Jul 20, 2016
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    Thierry Henry loved a juggle!
     
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  6. Frank73

    Frank73 Member

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    Well, to tell the truth, IMHO not exactly the smoothest juggler ever seen...
     
  7. carlito86

    carlito86 Member+

    Jan 11, 2016
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    #607 carlito86, May 26, 2025
    Last edited: May 26, 2025
    The most skilful ‘defender’ of all time was Marcelo



    Any supposed advantages that other fullbacks like Cafu,Roberto Carlos or Dani alves have over him would be to do with things like work rate,athleticism and defensive output

    in terms of ball skills none of them compare to Marcelo or are even close
     
  8. carlito86

    carlito86 Member+

    Jan 11, 2016
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    Time to take it up one notch with the juggling


    Marcelo with a tennis ball
     
  9. PDG1978

    PDG1978 Member+

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    #609 PDG1978, May 26, 2025
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    "Gordillo's lob goal against Barcelona. The most curious thing is that a few minutes earlier, he tried to do it the same way but Urruticoechea stopped him and gestured with his finger to tell him that he wouldn't put it in that way... Moments later he created this work of art and left a phrase for history: "What not, Urruti?""

    I'm thinking that was in Copa del Rey 1984/85, and his other great left footed goal vs Barcelona was in the other leg:
    Real Betis Balompié - FC Barcelona, Apr 17, 1985 - Copa del Rey - Match sheet | Transfermarkt
    FC Barcelona - Real Betis Balompié, May 15, 1985 - Copa del Rey - Match sheet | Transfermarkt
    0:13 here
    Los 5 mejores goles de Rafael Gordillo | HISTORIA - YouTube

    He wasn't only a left back though (often left midfielder too), and I do think Leandro was a good call for technique in general as right back (I had put him in a technical XI I tried earlier in the thread even without seeing all the scenes on Frank's video I think, though I hadn't actually put either Marcelo or Gordillo as the left back but gone with Frank de Boer), even if other Brazilian right backs can perhaps be ahead for overall game. Jorginho maybe had the best crossing technique among full-backs?

     
  10. Frank73

    Frank73 Member

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    #610 Frank73, May 26, 2025
    Last edited: May 26, 2025

    Marcelo is genuinely superbe technique wise -same ballpark as Leandro- but plainly juggling a tennis ball is much more a matter of practicing than a feature of talent. It Is Always the same movement, you can "learn" it to a certain extent. I have seen tennis players doing it quite nicely. I could myself do a handful of tennis ball juggles when I was young (of course not as cleanlyc as Marcelo; now I have balance issues and I could hardly juggle a soccer ball).
     
  11. carlito86

    carlito86 Member+

    Jan 11, 2016
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    Teenage Diego Maradona


     
  12. Frank73

    Frank73 Member

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    A much less obvious wunderkind (who sadly failed to fulfill the promises, but not by his fault): Reinaldo de Lima, the maestro of pitch goal (nearly unknown even to many otherwise knowledgeable football lovers, so I think it could be interesting to many here).
     
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  13. Alessandro10

    Alessandro10 Member

    Dec 6, 2010
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  14. Serengeti_Boy

    Serengeti_Boy Member+

    Sep 15, 2009
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    Tanzania
    Raul Gonzalez! He was a specialist at that before Messi came in.
     

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