8 players who never use their weaker foot

Captain Obvious alert: football is a game played by the feet. It’s the legs that do the magic that mesmerise so many people. While some players are adept at the wizardry of using both their feet, some others are so one-footed that they wouldn’t use it even if their lives depend on it.While a player like Santi Cazorla has been in the game for over a decade now – fans still can’t make out which foot is his stronger one – there are some players who make the fans believe that their weaker foot is only there for running and balancing purposes.Before starting the list, let it be clear that it includes players that are extremely one-footed. Even though Lionel Messi and Gareth Bale have been labelled one-footed players, they have scored some genuinely good goals using their weaker foot and are quite good at using them once in a while; hence they have been excluded from this list.

#1 Angel Di Maria

Angel Di Maria is so one-footed that he prefers to execute a rabona with his left foot instead of making a simple right-footed cross – and that is because he is more comfortable with the former than with the latter.

The Argentine forward is one of the best players in the world and he was tactically the most influential player in Real Madrid’s best season post-del Bosque. And almost every moment of brilliance was the child of that glorious left foot.

However, the problem with being so one footed is that when he is played on the right, he gets cramped for space and hence his movements become very predictable. When played in the middle, he has a lot of space on the left to run in and get out of trouble. On the wings, that is not an option.