Who singlehandedly led his country to World Cup Glory?

Who scored the greatest goal the world has witnessed at the business end of a World Cup (for the record he repeated the feat in the Semi as well just to prove it was no fluke)!

Who was a success and won trophies at 3 major clubs on 2 different continents?

In doing so, who didn`t have the luxury of playing in a team full of a generation of naturally talented footballers of which there is unlikely to be another?

Who played some of the most sublime football that modern day Ronaldo`s can only dream about even with so much referee protection whilst he did it whilst being kicked from post to post by the likes of Claudio Gentile and the Butcher of Bilbao to name a couple?

This is not my opinion….they are facts!

After all the debate the answer is quite simple……Diego, Diego, Diego !!!

Pele the Great

truly the best……

Ohh and on the solo run that Maradona did when he took on the whole English team was brilliant but did you know that Pele took on a whole team and scored too only it was deleted from the archives decades ago, the good news is that it is still in the records so it is a known fact. But still none of this matters the official FIFA award for player of the century was given to Pele so this debate was actually over before it started.

During Pele’s time, there was limited tv coverage. Many teams and players (including Boca Juniors against Santos during the Libertadors finals in La Bombonera) tried to break Pele’s legs many times. To say that things were easier during Pele’s time;it is a joke. When Maradona played the TV was there to protect him and to make sure that other players did not break his legs. When Pele played, there was no mercy even during the 1966 World Cup when the entire world was watching. If you had the same kind of pressure/violence applied to Maradona, he would not had survived and his performance would had been significantly impacted. Now, tell Maradona to try to score hundreds of goals when he has defenders trying to break his legs specially when they are comming from behind. Pele played many times with his back against the defense. Maradona neve did that he always carried the ball and then faced the defenders.

If Pele and Maradona were to play today, Pele would have won every competition with Santos and Brazil. By the way, Pele did not score nearly fourteen hundred goals and won the World Cup three times and the Libertadores Cups twice because Pele had very good players around him. He made average players to become great players. Who do you remember that played with Maradona? unless if you a Maradona and Argentina fan. Now ask those that knew Pele, they also new Garrincha, Edu, Zito, Carlos Alberto Torres, Tostao, Rivelino etc… The list goes on and on