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If you want to do Pelé any favours, I would stick with the ball carrying. Outside ball carrying, at least to me, Maradona was much more admirable because he re
by m000 4y ago
If you want to do Pelé any favours, I would stick with the ball carrying.
Outside ball carrying, at least to me, Maradona was much more admirable because he remained unapologetically himself. Pelé on the other hand, eventually became a salesman of his own image: a permanent smile on his face, always talking in platitudes to keep everyone happy, fully aligned with his (not so innocent) FIFA bosses.
- boredemployee 4y agoImho that's not entirely true. Pelé used his own image to try to make Brazil a better place to his people and to contribute to the sport, sometimes even in a naive and childish way. He certainly wasn't a perfect person, with controversial attitudes throughout his life, but let's remember that he had humble beginnings like many black poor boys in Brazil whose destiny was to starve and, at least publicly, he always acted as a citizen of the world trying to sell a good image from Brazil. he was never involved in drugs.