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But Pele played at a time where football was not as polished as today. That also includes Maradona. Messi, Ronaldo are much much better football players than th
by olavgg 6y ago
But Pele played at a time where football was not as polished as today. That also includes Maradona. Messi, Ronaldo are much much better football players than them both. But of course with the strong competition today it is a lot harder to accomplish what Pele and Maradona did.
Football is a team game, and that is a lot more true today than three, four decades ago.
- pelasaco 6y agoyou are comparing apples with oranges. You cannot compare football from the 50s,70s with football from today, simply because the whole society changed. If football wasn't as polished as today, to out stand in this environment is even harder. Every injury could mean the end of your career. Pele was raised poor, served the army, played professionally from 1950 - 1977(!!) Messi in another hand is "professional" since he was 6. He moved to Barcelona at age of 10 to go through an hormonal treatment and since then he is exposed to professional football. Such chance was impossible back in the 50s for a black kid in Brazil or anyone else actually.
- fzil 6y ago> But Pele played at a time where football was not as polished as today Football wouldn't be as polished today had it not been for players like Pele and Maradona. Pele is GOAT and nobody comes even close.