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Clip of the day

Mayuka clincher

Emmanuel Mayuka's pinpoint curler stuns Ghana and sends Zambia into the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations final.

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Feature: Football's finest playmakers in full flow

You've read the words, you know the names. Now watch the legends come alive for you

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1 Zico

Zico rips Liverpool a new one in the 1981 Intercontinental Cup with a hat-trick of assists. Souness: "I never got within two yards of him."

2 Puskas

"If you kick with both feet, you fall on your arse." Such humiliation was commonplace, but rarely his. Five minutes of genius.

3 Cruyff

"The other JC" had everything in his locker, but we love this slipreel of up-yours dribbling past increasingly irate defenders.

4 Hagi

From tight-shorted impudent youth to imperious USA '94 pomp via innumerable dribbles and free-kicks.

5 Platini

A great goalscorer in his own right, but this Juventus-era portfolio also displays his superb dribbling and passing.

6 Rivaldo

Many Rivaldo compilations major on his goalscoring, but this also cleverly clipreels his crushing creativity.

7 Ozil

Germans weren't surprised by his World Cup – they'd seen his goals and assists the previous season. Now, so you can you.

8 Sneijder

Lovingly compiled collection of brilliance for Ajax, Real, Inter and Holland.

9 Scholes

Typically telling vision as he ignores an offside team-mate, instead backheeling to a midfield runner.

10 Antognoni

To be Italy's No.10, you have to be rather good. Antognoni, the shirt holder in the late 70s & earl 80s, was.