Besik Makharadze

This humble Georgian maestro glides across the pitch with otherworldly tactical intelligence and a velvet-soft first touch that defies physics, even if he occasionally forgets to test the goalkeeper with real force. Legend has it he once skipped a local village festival just to practice his ball control on uneven mountain stones until he could outmaneuver a roaming mountain goat. He plays with the quiet elegance of a chess grandmaster trapped in a footballer's body.