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Den Ridder Miss

Beerschot's Nicoletta den Ridder somehow manages to scoop a rebound over the bar from a yard against Ajax. Oops

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Feature: Balotelli, Di Santo, Rafael, Vela & more

If you've bought issue 173, you've read about them. Now you can see them move

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1 Miralem Pjanic

If you can't stop them, sign them! Metz were awful last season, but their Luxembourg-raised Bosnian teenage playmaker made his mark, notably in the Cup against Lyon. So when Metz went down, Lyon moved in.

2 Rabiu Ibrahim

Meet Sporting Lisbon's Nigerian playmaker. What's in his locker? Calmness in front of goal, an eye for a defence-splitting pass... and a great soft-shoe-shuffle celebration.

3 Rafael Da Silva

You're learning, Jedi. Pre-season at Peterborough, the 'new Gary Neville' Rafael Da Silva shanks one left-foot effort laughably wide... but he did better with a similar strike against Arsenal at the Emirates...

4 Dinho Does Dunga

We haven't pored over a five-second clip so much since Anthea Turner got set on fire by a motorbike. A young Ronaldinho bamboozles future Brazil coach Dunga with this insane 'Hocus Pocus' trick.

5 Ilunga Mwepu

The Zaire defender earns his own 15-seconds of fame at the 1974 World Cup, breaking out of his side's defensive wall to wallop Brazil's free-kick up-field. He still doesn't know what he did wrong, apparently...

6 Super Mario

The strapping young man Jose Mourinho can unleash in a crisis, 6ft 2in Balotelli upsets defenders but can also curl home a cracking free-kick.

7 Franco Di Santo

Action of Chelsea's Argentinean starlet before and after his move to Stamford Bridge and becoming the Blues's No.9.

8 Alberto Paloschi

The young AC Milan super-sub who scored at the San Siro just 18 seconds after coming on, much to coach Carlo Ancelotti's delight.

9 Carlos Vela

He's no secret anymore. That's what happens when you keep scoring sublime goals. And he's only 12-years-old. Extraordinary.

10 Cruyff Does Olsson

Re-live the Cruyff-turned Jan Olsson's 15 second long infamy. Over and over and over again.