hi its me with another thread about football (yes im calling it football now). anyways pele or maradona?who is better? this question has been asked quite frequently over the past 20 years. but this is what i think. PELE ftw!
pele is a brazilian footballer rated as the best footballer EVER. he started playing for santos at teh age of 15, and scored 122 goals in his first season. Pele was an amazing player ( lack of video footage weakens my argument), he could kick with both feet, head the ball, and dribble through defenders like it was nothing. just check out this video, http://youtube.com/watch?v=vy2LI6y5rDI. He played for brazil at the age of 16 and played at the world cup in sweden in 1958. he scored a hat trick vs france and scored 2 goals in teh final to lead brazil to their 1st wc title win. HE WAS ONLY 17!. he continued to play for santos average close to 100 goals per season. then came the 1962 world cup. unfortunatly, he didnt play due to inuries butbrasil went on to win anayways.
Pele could give the step over to any1. just look at what happend at the 1966 world cup. players had to trip him and hurt him (no red cards at teh time), to stop him, which was prolyl the main reason for brazil not winning the 1966 world cup. pele was even considered a national treasure to brazil to prevent him from being transfered to another team!
anyways at the 1970 world cup he led brazil to a 3rd world cup title. he retired after that but came back to play for the NY Cosmos. some interesting facts about pele:
scored 1087 goals (according to wikipedia)
athlete of the century
FIFA footballer of teh century
top scorer for brazil 77 goals
won 3 world cups
12 world cup goals (4th overall)
dont get me wrong, i dont hate argentines ( i love tevez)
Maradona on the other hand was a great player with incredible dribbling abilities and had the skill to take on a whole team of players. maradona started playing for boca juniors at the age of 16 i think, and played in the 1982 1990 1986 and 94 world cup. he scoired 4 ggoals at the 82 world cup and led argentina to a 2nd wc title in 86. he scored this sexy goal vs england http://youtube.com/watch?v=-rW-lK9F6TU. in the 1990 world cup, he didnt do so well. he was marked tightly by guldo buchwald in teh final and argentina lost 0-1. he joined napoli, an italian soccer team, and almost single handedly led them to 2 italian championships, a coppa italia, and a UEFA cup. but maradona was also a very controversial player. over his playing years he was addicted to cocaine, which lead him to being banned from the 1994 world cup. he also scored this ggoal vs england
http://youtube.com/watch?v=AJZtivkagAw, in which he BLATENTLY used his hand to win vs england. in my opinion england shulda won that match. btw maradonas goal vs england, the one where he ran the field, was voted the goal of teh century.
all in all, i think pele was the most complete ever. the video explains that. he could do everything. maradona was an incredible player, but you have to say, he ruined his own career. btw maradona was one footed (left).
what do u think?
