Johan Cruijff!!!!

Pele.
I don't vote for crackheads.

 you obviously havent atched ANY videos of pele.

what players did pele have to support him? the brazil 1958 team was basically only pele and garrincha, and santos had maybe only 1 or 2 players that were even close to pele.

what u have to remeber is, pele had to play with players literally trying to kill him, and he had to play with the rough and ugly south american pitches. he still scored over 600 goals, and you say that maradona had better technique and skill with the ball? most of those stepovers and 360 turns w/e he does are done with his LEFT foot. ask anyone, 

My list is:

1.-Pele

2.- Zinedine Zidane

3.- Johan cruyff

I won't pick maradona anyday because he used drugs to buff up his skills, what a shame.

Right now:

1.-Kaka

2.- C. Ronaldo

3.- Robinho and Messi

OK here's a Video of Pele enjoy.

^ yes ty!

thats y maradona got banned from the 94 world cup. drug enhancing skills.

i guess he realized he had to do something after he realized he didnt do shit in the 1990 world cup.

I agree and I'm not argentinian. Between Pele and Maradona, I will always choose the latter.

I think that Van Basten and Baggio were also great attacker ( exist this term ? )

However I think that it is sad that in this type of soccer contest who do not play in a role that permit to score gaols are always excluded ... I mean a player like Maldini is a living legend of soccer world.

It's because it's much harder to tell when someone like a defensive midfielder is having a great match. You don't notice when someone is good at holding the ball, making tackles, passing to other players to make runs. But you will notice lots of tricks and goals. People enjoy talking about and watching attacking football more than they like defensive football.

Pele better than Maradona? Are you guys serious? You must be using the same stuff Maradona was...

Check it, sure Maradona was one foot but he lead a team, with no relevance before to a bunch of titles in a short span. He probably score the best goal ever, and even when he became fat and past his prime, he still worked everyone in Europe big time.

Pele, well, when his career started to slide, he could not take the high level of play anymore so he skipped out in his later years and went to America to play the game. Without doubt, this was the best move of his career as most Americans are now very familiar with him but have absolutely no idea who Maradona is.

Pele was scoring goals in a league that I am fairly sure my three year old daughter could have scored in. Meanwhile, Maradona is single handedly taking a club that will never be significant (as if they really were before) to big cup titles in Europe. You know, where the big boys play?

Maradona gets a bad reputation because of his abuse of drugs and some controversial statements he has made in the past. But to deny his footballing ability as anything less than the best is confusing. Pele could never have done what Maradona did and that is what makes Maradona better.

And if you can score a blatant handball goal in a huge World Cup game like that, you deserve to be praised. It was poor officiating that allowed the play to stand. All Maradona can do from there is celebrate.

Maradona

Another underrated player: Jorge "Magico" Gonzales

He is from my country: El Salvador

The best football player EVER!

Some of his skills.

He made that to the FC Barcelona of Maradona

Had to post that since you mentioned Bergkamp! One of the best goals I've ever seen.

And back OT, Pele definitely. I've watched WC final matches from 1958 onwards and will take that view. Maradona was a great, great player and deserves a lot of consideration, even if he is an idiot off the field and a cheat on it.