Comments on: Maradona vs. Pelé: the Hand of God vs. the Right Hand of God

By: cableguy

cableguy — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:22:33 +0000

sorry the comment 36

By: cableguy

cableguy — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:20:34 +0000

Re. comment #29 ..I saw the video but I prefer to look at 10,000 times the England goal by maradona at all which made the Brazilian in the video, really dull to all, thanks

By: J Kop Jansen

J Kop Jansen — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:35:32 +0000

Must’ve been written by an English or Brazilian bloke who never played football himself,if you’d ask me..
Someone here said it right when he said that this isn’t an article about comparing two players,but to bash one of the two.(and the writer picked the wrong one,if you’d ask me.)

I feel sorry for the people who bash Maradona out of jealousy or whatever kind of reason..yep,Diego took drugs,yep he scored with his hand (and aparently it still hurts some people so much,that they are unable to remember the second goal in that match,or the rest of that tournament for that matter.) and probably did a lot more stupid things..Wasn’t Pele accused for child molesting once?ahh,of course that can never be true,the guy’s such a saint!!

Think about the time they both played football in and which players were surrounding them on the pitch at the time and you can only come up with one conlusion..
The answer is:Maradona DUH!!

By: Bauti

Bauti — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:03:44 +0000

This is the most biased article i’ve ever read,
I can’t argue that Pele was a bad player, in fact, he’s in my Top 5 haha. But you said that the scored +1200 goals, remember that the usual lineup on those times was a 3-2-5 and a usual match could finish 4-0. In Brasil there is a cup wich name i ignore that is similar to the FA but, with ALL the teams from division 4 to 1. So it was pretty easy to score, don’t you think?

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:27:42 +0000

‘Garrincha was every bit as good as Pele, from what I have seen. Just not as charismatic or pretty, and he liked the booze’
Garrincha was a specialist ‘dribbler’- perhaps the greatest in that discipline. Pele had an all round game, he could do the difficult things and the simple equally well. He would probably have been outstanding in any outfield position. Pele was also brilliant at doing something Maradona was reluctant to do, namely passing the ball to his team mates. Bearing in mind how selfish Maradona was it’s actually surptising he didn’t score more goals.

By: Fredorrarci

Fredorrarci — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:43:32 +0000

@Ahmed

I have it on good authority that God is a Monica Bellucci man…

By: fubob

fubob — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:09:38 +0000

@BD that’s a nice compilation, but you can find just as many (more actually) about Maradona. It’s impossible to compare the two because they never played against each other or in the same era. Without Maradona, Argentina doesn’t win a second world cup, in all likelihood. Without Pele, Brazil maybe wins the same amount. Garrincha was every bit as good as Pele, from what I have seen. Just not as charismatic or pretty, and he liked the booze. That’s why I use a top three instead of the best one, since it’s impossible to tell who really is the greatest of all time. For the record, my top three includes one Argentine, two Brazilians, and one Hungarian.

By: BD Condell

BD Condell — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:35:02 +0000

ibrahim sana: Watch the video link I posted and accept that just because it wasn’t in your lifetime doesn’t detract from its genius!

Watch the video and tell me that Pele wasn’t a dribbler! Watch the video and tell me that Pele was only good because he had good players around him!

As for Maradona single handedly winning a World Cup. If you’d ever played football at any level or understood the game you’d understand that that is not actually possible.

By: ibrahim sana

ibrahim sana — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:43:27 +0000

i think the one who wrote this article is not comparing the two players but rather criticizing one.i think is from england so he hates maradona and also jealous of him that is why he is accusing maradona instead oc comparing what they did on the pitch.let me also tell u this is not about thier life style,this is what they did in football.and also comparing the two maradona was dribler he single handedly won the world cup but with pele when he was around he was not brazil’s best player because they had very good players like him could play like him and also who could score like him.ask your self they say pele scored more goals than every player how many goals has he scored in the world cup?

By: BD Condell

BD Condell — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:45:41 +0000

I afraid Fred is way to subtle for me if this was the intention! Anyway, what a reaction!

For all the post Pele spotty faced Maradonna fans why not educate youself by watchiing the following:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2u9r0_pele-best-soccer-player-ever-pele_sport