{Recently, the CIES Football Observatory, a prestigious Swiss sports research institute, carried out a study in which they classified the best dribblers under 23 years of age in the entire world, highlighting names such as Kvicha Kvaratskhelia, Take Kubo, Bukayo Saka or Bryan Zaragoza, but There were also a good handful of Brazilians who managed to enter the select ranking.
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Find out the complete list of the best under-23 dribblers in the world, according to CIES FO
Specifically, four Brazilian footballers appear in the CIESFO study, which takes data from the best dribblers in the five major European leagues, so only footballers who live in the old continent appear.
The data on which the study is based was taken from Wyscout , and the footballers were classified according to the successful dribbles performed in domestic leagues, the success rate of the dribbles attempted and the sporting level of the matches they played.
Top U2⃣3⃣ dribblers as per @CIES_Football index & @Wyscout data , Europe’s big-5
🥇 #LamineYamal 🇪🇸 (#FCBarcelona)
🥈 #GabrielMartinelli 🇧🇷 (#ArsenalFC)
🥉 #LucaKoleosho 🇮🇹 (#BurnleyFC)
Top 💯 🌐 & methodology 👉 https://t.co/a3aDIibnTE pic.twitter.com/j7l0iIIo8M— CIES Football Obs (@CIES_Football) November 1, 2023
At the top we can find the first Brazilian of all, Gabriel Martinelli, who occupies second position on the list. In fifth position is Savinho, a Girona footballer.
Further down, in fifteenth place, is the Chelsea footballer on loan at Racing Strasbourg, Ângelo Gabriel and, surprisingly, in eighteenth position, is the Real Madrid star, Rodrygo Goes.
The complete list, along with the data on which the classification is based, is as follows:
- (1st) Lamine Yamal – FC Barcelona : 16.3 years old, 56% successful dribbles, averages 6.0 every 90 minutes
- (2nd) Gabriel Martinelli – Arsenal : 22.4 years old, 65% successful dribbles, averages 4.9 every 90 minutes
- (3rd) Luka Koleosho – Burnley : 19.1 years old, 62% successful dribbles, averages 5.8 per 90 minutes
- (4th) Kvicha Kvaratskhelia – Napoli : 22.7 years old, 52% successful dribbles, averages 6.4 every 90 minutes
- (5th) Sávio Moreira – Girona : 19.6 years old, 58% successful dribbles, averages 5.4 every 90 minutes
- (6th) Take Kubo – Real Sociedad : 22.4 years old, 62% successful dribbles, averages 4.7 every 90 minutes
- (7th) Bukayo Saka – Arsenal : 22.2 years old, 64% successful dribbles, averages 4.4 per 90 minutes
- (8th) Anthony Gordon – Newcastle : 22.7 years old, 67% successful dribbles, averages 4.3 per 90 minutes
- (9th) Matías Soulé – Frosinone : 20.5 years old, 56% successful dribbles, averages 5.6 every 90 minutes
- (10th) Bryan Zaragoza – Granada/Bayern : 22.1 years old, 51% successful dribbles, averages 5.8 every 90 minutes
- (11th) Nico Williams – Athletic Club : 21.3 years old, 45% successful dribbles, averages 5.7 every 90 minutes
- (12th) Nicolò Cambiaghi – Empoli : 22.8 years old, 60% successful dribbles, averages 4.3 every 90 minutes
- (13th) Fran Pérez – Valencia : 21.1 years old, 66% successful dribbles, averages 4.0 every 90 minutes
- (14th) Victor Boniface – Bayer 04 : 22.9 years old, 58% successful dribbles, averages 4.5 every 90 minutes
- (15th) Ângelo Gabriel – Racing Strasbourg : 18.9 years old, 56% successful dribbles, averages 5.1 every 90 minutes
- (16th) Rayan Cherki – Olympique Lyon : 20.2 years old, 52% successful dribbles, averages 5.3 every 90 minutes
- (17th) Ander Barrenetxea – Real Sociedad : 21.8 years old, 63% successful dribbles, averages 3.8 every 90 minutes
- (18th) Rodrygo Goes – Real Madrid : 22.8 years old, 56% successful dribbles, averages 4.1 every 90 minutes
- (19th) Matteo Cancellieri – Empoli : 21.7 years old, 55% successful dribbles, averages 4.4 every 90 minutes
- (20th) Zito Luvumbo – Cagliari : 21.6 years old, 50% successful dribbles, averages 4.9 every 90 minutes
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