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Author Topic: 0% Villa: Maradona or Pele?  (Read 13286 times)

Offline Legion

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0% Villa: Maradona or Pele?
« on: October 22, 2010, 12:12:01 PM »

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Re: 0% Villa: Maradona or Pele?
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2010, 12:21:18 PM »
Pele.

You can draw a direct line back from Wayne Rooney (and all the crap surrounding him) to Maradona.

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Re: 0% Villa: Maradona or Pele?
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2010, 12:22:57 PM »
Maradona for me. Purely because he proved himself to be brilliant at every level. Pele loses points for staying at Santos.

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Re: 0% Villa: Maradona or Pele?
« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2010, 12:24:15 PM »
I always used to think Pele, but his big fault is never playing in Europe.

Offline BILL DE VALL

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Re: 0% Villa: Maradona or Pele?
« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2010, 12:27:29 PM »
Pele scored over 1000 goals with no cocaine/Mafia fixed games to help him
OK sometimes the opposition wasn't the best
But still if your playing against pele-don't you try your hardest and hope to have one of the best games of your career?


Please bear in mind if you met pele you would want to shake his hand
If you met maradona you might just feel the urge to punch him

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Re: 0% Villa: Maradona or Pele?
« Reply #5 on: October 22, 2010, 12:31:34 PM »
Maradona for me.  Despite his well publicised issues, won Argentina the WC almost single handedly, and did the same with Napoli and the Italian League.  Pele was another exceptional player in a brilliant Brazil team of the time.

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Re: 0% Villa: Maradona or Pele?
« Reply #6 on: October 22, 2010, 12:31:49 PM »
Pele scored over 1000 goals with no cocaine/Mafia fixed games to help him
OK sometimes the opposition wasn't the best
But still if your playing against pele-don't you try your hardest and hope to have one of the best games of your career?


Please bear in mind if you met pele you would want to shake his hand
If you met maradona you might just feel the urge to punch him

I'd want to shake both their hands. They are both genius football players. Not sure how Cocaine inproves you as a football player, other than your abilty to talk absolute shite.

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Re: 0% Villa: Maradona or Pele?
« Reply #7 on: October 22, 2010, 12:33:28 PM »

I was also thinking the same thing.

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Re: 0% Villa: Maradona or Pele?
« Reply #8 on: October 22, 2010, 12:38:08 PM »
Cruyff.

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Re: 0% Villa: Maradona or Pele?
« Reply #9 on: October 22, 2010, 12:38:44 PM »
As good a player Maradona was, It's Pele for me-good in the air, inventive on the ground , fast and could shoot with both feet - I still think to promote Erectile problems takes some guts too  :-[

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Re: 0% Villa: Maradona or Pele?
« Reply #10 on: October 22, 2010, 12:42:28 PM »
Pele.

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Re: 0% Villa: Maradona or Pele?
« Reply #11 on: October 22, 2010, 12:52:44 PM »
Maradona. Won the World Cup with an average Argentina side and the Scudetto with Napoli (twice I think).

Pele won the World Cup with brilliant Brazil sides and stayed in a mickey-mouse league.

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Re: 0% Villa: Maradona or Pele?
« Reply #12 on: October 22, 2010, 01:04:23 PM »
I always used to think Pele, but his big fault is never playing in Europe.
Sure but how many South American players at the time were playing in Europe? You can hardly put that down as a fault. At every level he played, he was the best. You can't do much more than that and his goals scored record still stands today.

Maradonna was a superbly gifted player but Pele was the exception.

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Re: 0% Villa: Maradona or Pele?
« Reply #13 on: October 22, 2010, 01:06:55 PM »
see, it would be a different answer for me if we were looking at the best volleyball player.  But we are not.  So Pele wins by not being a cheating bastard.

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Re: 0% Villa: Maradona or Pele?
« Reply #14 on: October 22, 2010, 01:07:14 PM »
Maradona. On the international stage Pele was surrounded by excellent players, Maradona wasn’t.

 


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