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Seven free-kick goals spread over spells at Inter, Liverpool and Barcelona.

=10. Philippe Coutinho

Seven free-kick goals spread over spells at&nbsp;Bochum, Mainz, Schalke and Leicester.

=10. Christian Fuchs

Seven free-kick goals spread over spells at Manchester United and Everton.

=10. Wayne Rooney

Seven free-kick goals spread over spells at Lazio, Manchester City and Roma.

=10. Aleksandar Kolarov

Seven free-kick goals spread over spells at&nbsp;Mallorca, Alaves, Monaco, Celta Vigo, Espanyol, ​​Paris-Saint Germain and West Ham.

=10. Nene

Seven free-kick goals spread over spells at&nbsp;Nantes, St Etienne, Lille, Marseille and West Ham.

=10. Dimitri Payet

Seven free-kick goals spread over spells at Nurnberg and Hertha Berlin.

=10. Marvin Plattenhardt

=10. Francesco Totti

Seven free-kick goals spread over spellls at&nbsp;Livorno, West Ham, Brescia, Bologna, Fiorentina, Watford, Atalanta and Palermo.

=10. Alessandro Diamanti

Eight free-kick goals spread over spells at Palermo and Juventus.

=9. Paulo Dybala

Eight free-kick goals spread over spells at&nbsp;Real Madrid, Getafe and Valencia.

=9. Dani Parejo

Eight free-kick goals spread over spells at&nbsp;Inter, Manchester City, AC Milan, Liverpool and Nice.

=9. Mario Balotelli

=9. Alessandro Del Piero

Eight free-kick goals spread over spells at&nbsp;Werder Bremen, Juventus, Wolfsburg and Atletico Madrid.

=9. Diego

Eight free-kick goals spread over spells at&nbsp;Arsenal, Birmingham, Sunderland and Hull City.

=9. Sebastian Larsson

Eight free-kick goals spread over spells at Valencia, Chelsea and Manchester United.

=9. Juan Mata

Nine free-kick goals spread over spells at Roma and Cagliari.

=8. Daniele Conti

Nine free-kick goals spread over spells at&nbsp;Hoffenheim, Swansea, Tottenham and Everton.

=8. Gylfi Sigurdsson

Ten free-kick goals spread over spells at Athletic Bilbao and Sevilla.

=7. Benat Etxebarria

Ten free-kick goals spread over spells at&nbsp;Lille, Lyon, Schalke and Roma.

=7. Michel Bastos

=7. Antonio Di Natale

Ten free-kick goals spread over spells at Evian and Celta Vigo.

=7. Daniel Wass

Ten free-kick goals spread over spells at&nbsp;Hertha Berlin, Hoffenheim and Hamburg.

=7. Sejad Salihovic

Eleven free-kick goals spread over spells at&nbsp;Juventus, Inter, Barcelona, ​​AC Milan, Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester United.

=6. Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Eleven free-kick goals spread over spells at&nbsp;Hamburg, Bayer Leverkusen and AC Milan.

=6. Hakan Calhanoglu

Twelve free-kick goals spread over spells at Inter, AC Milan and Juventus.

5. Andrea Pirlo

Thirteen free-kick goals spread over spells at Mallorca and Borussia Monchengladbach.

=4. Juan Arango

Thirteen free-kick goals spread over spells at&nbsp;Empoli, Udinese, Catania, Genoa and Parma.

=4. Francesco Lodi

Fourteen free-kick goals spread over spells at Metz, Lyon, Rome and Juventus.

3. Miralem Pjanic

Twenty-one free-kick goals for Barcelona.

2. Lionel Messi

Twenty-four free-kick goals spread over spells at Manchester United and Real Madrid.

1. Cristiano Ronaldo

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