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It doesn’t even compare. Pele played in a primitive era of the sport where the existing rules (or lack of them) helped him thrive. Maradona played in an era th
by whoisjuan 6y ago
It doesn’t even compare. Pele played in a primitive era of the sport where the existing rules (or lack of them) helped him thrive.
Maradona played in an era that is more akin to modern football with stricter rules.
Don’t get me wrong. Pele was great, but I doubt he would have been that great in modern football.
- triceratops 6y ago> Pele was great, but I doubt he would have been that great in modern football. This argument has never made any sense to me, in any sport or discipline. If you directly bring a 25-year old Pele or Michael Jordan or Wayne Gretzky to 2020 using a time machine, they won't measure up to their peers. If you send an average math professor from a mid-tier college back to 1680s England, they'd dazzle Newton. Because standards and the base level of skill have gone up across the board since then. That doesn't mean average math professors today are smarter than Newton. And it doesn't mean the average professional footballer today is actually better than Pele or any of the other greats of the past. Bring baby Pele (or Jordan or Gretzky) to 2020 and (barring injuries) he'd be a world-beater in 20 years.
- prmph 6y agoI really don’t think you know what you are talking about. Pele played at a time when football was even tougher and harder tackling than in Maradona’s time. The fouling of Pele is what caused yellow/red cards to be introduced