Jay Jay Okocha makes list of top 30 free-kick takers of all time

Nigeria’s free-kick maestro, Austin Jay Jay Okocha has made the list of 30 world best free-kick takers of all time. Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona also made the list.

Football fans voted the top 30 best freekick takers in the history of the sport.

The African football legend fondly called Jay Jay, was the only African on the list in which Cristiano Ronaldo was ranked higher than his archrival, Lionel Messi.

Messi has scored five goals from free kick this season while Ronaldo still leads the way in terms of career totals from free kicks at 55 vs 53 for Messi.

The voting list dubbed ‘Best Free Kick Takers in Football’ is organized by thetoptens.com and allows supporters to vote on the players they think are the greatest free-kick takers of all time.

Below are the top 30 best free-kick takers list.

30. Leighton Baines
31. Gareth Bale
32. Miralem Pjanic
33. Wayne Rooney
34. Jay Jay Okocha
35. Juan Roman Riquelme
36. Alex
37. Diego Forlan
38. Thierry Henry
39. Rivaldo
40. Robin van Persie
41. Memphis Depay
42. Ryan Giggs
43. Wesley Sneijder
44. Juan Arango
45. Zico
46. Shunsuke Nakamura
47. Gheorghe Hagi
48. Pierre van Hooijdonk
49. Steven Gerrard
50. Alessandro del Piero
51. Sinisa Mihajlovic
52. Lionel Messi
53. Andrea Pirlo
54. Ronaldinho
55. Diego Maradona
56. Roberto Carlos
57. Cristiano Ronaldo
58. David Beckham
59. Juninho Pernambucano