The reason that in the past players could take on a whole team was very much to do with the player themselves, although it is mainly to do with a lack of organisation of the teams and very poor defending.
If you compare any footage of pele, maradonna or eusebio to the highlights of zinedine zedane for example, you will find in terms of skill power and direction zidane will be far superior.(there are a number of factors involved in this though.)
The organisation of the teams is the reason why for instance in the EPL, you will not really see players scoring silly amounts of goals, and also the increase of use of the through ball.
so really over all out of the three id say pele! Although i do not consider him to be the greatest ever.
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