QuadroK4000
Elder Lister
Good.
I have those videos, and comparatively there are lots of footballers who should be deemed as goats. Lakini sasa everyone seems to think Pelé (MHRIP) is the only one.
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I have those videos, and comparatively there are lots of footballers who should be deemed as goats. Lakini sasa everyone seems to think Pelé (MHRIP) is the only one.
upepo
Elder Lister
You must be crazy to attempt to judge a 20-year career from a few minutes of footage. Again, you are forgetting that those who saw him play and have seen other stars emerge up to this day place him at the top. You are basing your assessments on ignorance, which is quite deep.
QuadroK4000
Elder Lister
What's your point Awa?
upepo
Elder Lister
A player is judged from his overall performance not from the spectacular moves he pulls. You could be an acrobat on the field but that does not make you the greatest. I know it is sad to miss out but we don't have to understand everything. Just sit quiet at the corner with your videos.
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mzeiya
Elder Lister
I'm completely taking it eazzy bro.
What I can't stand is unmerited slander. Sports and not just football, are about respect.
Let us not lose that as we cheer on our heroes and boo down our perceived villains.
QuadroK4000
Elder Lister
What is that overall performance? As I sit quiet at the corner with my videos?
upepo
Elder Lister
Drop the habit of trashing anything you do not understand or agree with.
So hakuna footage ya the GOAT? You want me to say Pele is the GOAT because other players said the same? Like I said, criticising Pele is an unpopular thing because the media has made him a GOAT. But when we analyse critically, we'll see Pele was a very good player but not a GOAT
QuadroK4000
Elder Lister
Wagwaaaan pastor.
QuadroK4000
Elder Lister
Fair enough.
I ain't trashing, but if I seem to, I will work on that.
However, what was your point?
upepo
Elder Lister
'Greatest of all time': Pelé as described by his peers
By Associated Press
December 29, 2022 at 6:26 p.m. EST
FILE - In this May 23, 1998 file photo, soccer stars Argentina’s Diego Maradona, left, Pele of Brazil, center, and France’s Michel Platini pose shaking hands during Platini’s jubilee at Nancy stadium, eastern France. Former France great Michel Platini, one of Diego Maradona’s fiercest rivals when they both played in the Italian league during the 1980’s, said the late Argentine soccer star was “the greatest football lover there was.” Maradona died on Wednesday from a heart attack, aged 60. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)
Pele has been praised over the decades by everyone from world leaders to artists. Here are superlatives from over the years about Pele, who died Thursday in Brazil at age 82:
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“To watch him play was to watch the delight of a child combined with the extraordinary grace of a man in full.” — Nelson Mandela.
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“I told myself before the game, he’s made of skin and bones just like everyone else — but I was wrong.” — Italy’s Tarcisio Burgnich, after playing against Pele in the 1970 World Cup Final.
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“Pelé was one of the few who contradicted my theory: Instead of 15 minutes of fame, he will have 15 centuries.” — Andy Warhol.
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“I sometimes feel as though football was invented for this magical player.” — Sir Bobby Charlton, retired England great who won 1966 World Cup and Ballon d’Or in same year.
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“Pelé was the only footballer who surpassed the boundaries of logic.” — Johan Cruyff, the late Dutch star and standout manager who won the Ballon d’Or three times.
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“He is the most complete player I ever saw.” — Retired German great Franz Beckenbauer.
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“If you take the qualities of Cristiano Ronaldo and (Lionel) Messi, put them together, then you’d have a player to compare to Pelé!” — Retired Brazil forward Tostao.
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“The best player ever? Pelé. (Lionel) Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are both great players with specific qualities, but Pelé was better.” — Alfredo Di Stefano, the late Argentine star for Real Madrid.
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“His great secret was improvisation. Those things he did were in one moment. He had an extraordinary perception of the game.” — Brazil defender Carlos Alberto Torres.
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“This debate about the player of the century is absurd. There’s only one possible answer: Pelé. He’s the greatest player of all time, and by some distance, I might add.” — Retired Brazil star Zico.
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“The greatest player in history was Di Stefano. I refuse to classify Pelé as a player. He was above that.” — Hungary star Ferenc Puskas.
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“We went up together to head a ball. I was taller, had a better impulse. When I came back down, I looked up in astonishment. Pelé was still there, in the air, heading that ball. It was like he could stay suspended for as long as he wanted to.” — Italy defender Giacinto Facchetti.
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“When I saw Pelé play, it made me feel I should hang up my boots.” — Just Fontaine, the Morocco-born French star who scored 13 goals in six games in the 1958 World Cup.
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“The moment the ball arrived at Pelé’s feet, football transformed into poetry.” — Italian poet Pier Paolo Pasolini.
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“The difficulty, the extraordinary, is not to score 1,000 goals like Pelé — it’s to score one goal like Pelé.” — Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet.
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“Pelé was the most complete player I’ve ever seen. Two good feet. Magic in the air. Quick. Powerful. Could beat people with skill. Could outrun people. Only 5-feet-8 inches tall, yet he seemed a giant of an athlete on the pitch. Perfect balance and impossible vision.” — Bobby Moore, captain of the 1966 World Cup champion team from England.
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“I arrived hoping to stop a great man, but I went away convinced I had been undone by someone who was not born on the same planet as the rest of us.” — Benfica goalkeeper Costa Pereira after 5-2 loss to Santos.
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“There’s Pelé the man, and then Pelé the player. And to play like Pelé is to play like God.” — Retired France star and three-time Ballon d’Or winner Michel Platini.
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“Pelé is the greatest player in football history, and there will only be one Pelé in the world.” — Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal star forward.
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Sources: Goal.com, FIFA.com, AP research.
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QuadroK4000
Elder Lister
Ok
mzeiya
Elder Lister
No wonder! Pretty sure you're also an Andrew Tate beta male fanatic
What a twatorous view. In order to stand out, woke peeps would rather trash facts to appear clever. Sad little life.
I've known Andrew Tate for just a few hours after his drama with the climate change teenager. But the fact that you've known him longer tells something.No wonder! Pretty sure you're also an Andrew Tate beta male fanatic
What a twatorous view. In order to stand out, woke peeps would rather trash facts to appear clever. Sad little life.
I'd rather appear clever than be brainwashed by the media that will say things like Pele is a Goat, Kobe is a goat and just believe them blindly for fear of being unpopular.
Anyway, wacha Pele apumzike mahali pema peponi.
mzeiya
Elder Lister
Sorry bas