Base on skills, tactics, motivation to other team mates & number of goals scored. Maradona & Pele who is best?
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Maradona, because compared to Pele when Maradona played he was surrounded by pants players whereas Pele was surrounded with great players.  This shows that Maradona won his world cups basically single handed.
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Someone with tactical knowledge. The most important thing in managing is to be able to control the egos and make the team play as a 'team' as opposed to be beckham, ronaldinho or henry's team.\nUnfortunately, the ones able to do such a thing out there these days are few, and I would name Scolari, Parreira and Mourinho, for example.\nBut for my national team, if I didnt have Parreira already, I'd pick Scolari.
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Too many to mention. And which position? Pele many would say as well as me only for the fact that he changed the game to what it should really be. As for all the new guys, they are just adding tricks and skills to it. More of a show for the fans. Ronaldinho i would say is the best of the best. Everyone right now is learning from him and he has the best ball control you'll see in awhile.
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1 Maradona\n2 Pele\n3 Ronaldinho
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You fellaz who believe Pele played in a shit league must be mad. Pele is the only football legend that no one will ever be like him. I dont deny Maradona was good but not as good as Pele
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Maradona was the best football player, but Pele was the best professional football player.
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i agree. pele was absolutely incredible. he didnt just have the skill but he had the brains and vision of a world class footballer. but for me at the moment it has to be thierry henry closely followed by ronaldinho, then kaka, then steven gerrard
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MARADONA ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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PELE;MARADONA;BECKENBAUER
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I don't like either, but I would say Pele, just because he didn't score with his hand to win the world cup. And he didn't have drug problems like Maradona had.
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Pele is the best, he is an amazing performer, and helped lead Brazil to 3 of its 5(soon to be 6) world cup victories. He is also one of the most influencial players to play the game. And the comment about Maradona not being considered an athlete is disrespectful to the game. Maradona was a great player, and drugs had nothing to do with that, if you wanna bet, why dont you go take some steroids or something and see if you become the next Maradona
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PELE EXCLUSIVE: Fantastic football so far\n22 June 2006\nby FIFAworldcup.com\n\nO Rei Pele is a man who needs no introduction. FIFA’s universally accepted choice as the greatest player of the 20th century, Pele makes headlines wherever he goes. The media hang on his every word, particularly when the great man offers his view on a topic as weighty as the FIFA World Cup™. \nThe Brazilian legend is well aware of the impact his words have, as he made clear to FIFAworldcup.com. “I’m not afraid of speaking my mind. A few World Cups ago, I said that Colombia were playing very well, and that they could end up doing better than Brazil and Argentina. Even though they did play well in their first two games, they went out in the first round, and plenty of people took pleasure in the fact that I got it wrong. \n\n“Before this particular tournament, nobody even mentioned Ecuador. People were only talking about Brazil and Argentina and I said that I had seen Ecuador play, that they were very good, and that they could get through the first phrase. And Ecuador are through! A lot of journalists stop making comments once things happen. That way it’s easy.” \n\nIn this exclusive interview, Pele gives a candid assessment of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and runs the rule over Brazil’s performances so far. The Canarinho legend also reveals which players and teams have caught his eye, and much more besides.
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i'd go with maradona\n\nRight.. he won 3 world cups... but.. in 58 played only the last games, and in 62 played only one game. Brasil had a GREAT team(garrincha, Gerson, etc).. it wasn't just PELE (Maradona won the 86 cup almost alone, HE was the team.. right they were good, but not THAT good)\n\n\nAnd as someone else said.. winning that FIFA's award is as meaningful as winning Employee of the Month at McDonald's.\n\n\nit's very difficult to compare... it's two different times... a LOT of different circunstances(compare time, opponents, marking, TV presence, media/fan pressure, teams/co-players, etc)... that's why these discussions never get to an end... because it's all about opinions...
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Pele was the one.\nafter him Ronaldinho, them Maradona and who the hell was Wayne Rooney?
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PELE top scorer 1281 goals, top WORLD CUP WINNER 3 times.\nMany. many, many championships with santos, Copa Libertadores (several) and Intercontinental Cups (several).\n\n2 \nMaradona WORLD CUP WINNER, UEFA Champions WINNER. \nExtremly famous for his jumping, dribbling and 1 on 1 ability against the keepers. He was so talented for using la rabona, (not the cocaine, la rabona is a way to hit the ball while you cross the hitting leg behind the support leg and then hit the ball at the same time). Too bad he was a DRUG ADDICT and that is the reason why I do not believe he was the greatest!!!. Drugs like cocaine that DIEGO ARMANDO MARADONA used, gave him the ability to see everybody else in slow motion, that is the reason why he was so fast and almost never was tackled down because he could resist constant kicks from the defenders, his balance was unbelieveable, totally out of this world for a man his height, only 5 feet 5 inches 1 meter 65 centimeters. \n\n3 \nRoberto Baggio UEFA Champions WINNER HypermegaUltra dribbling ability, fainting, middle and long distance shooting, free kicks and penalty kicks, middle height volleys, too. I never saw him lost on a 1 on 1 against the keeper during this career in the Calcio Italiano. This guy had it all. He was a mini version PELE. \nToo bad he never won a WORLD CUP because he played with an injured leg the final match of the WORLD CUP of USA in 1994.\n\n4 \nJohann Cruyff 2 WORLD CUP SUBCHAMPION \nI have nothing much to say about this demigod of soccer. No WORLD CUPs but the best in his position during the 70s. Not even the brazilian Zico was as good as this guy.\nWith Ajax he was at this top game, and then the injuries never left him alone. Too bad Johann, you were a diabolo.\n\n5 \nMichelle Platini what to say about this master of the ball.\nIntercontinental Cups, Squdettos with La Juve (Squdetto means Local League Championship Winner)\n\n6 \nRonaldo WORLD CUP WINNER (1 time) excessively ball controller, so good so effective, he is almost unstoppable. Too bad he got injured in the top of this game. Now he is fat, kind of slow and can not take on defenders as well as he used to. \n7 \nRonaldinho WORLD CUP WINNER (1 time) haha, splinter the rat from TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is the brother of this BOY. The fastest dribbler nowadays. He can create a scoring play from nowhere. He will win another WORLD CUP, you all will see.\n\n7 Rivaldo WORLD CUP WINNER (1 time) excellent striking ability as well as bicycle kick ability. Dribbling talent, no doubt about it. Curling the ball was his special trick, he would put excessive power as well as curl in his shots, which made them extremelly difficult for the goalkeepers to retain, as a prove of that just watch his shot against OLIVER KAHN (germany's goal keeper in the final match of KOREA JAPAN 2002) it created the first goal for the Brazilians.\n\n8 \nRomario over 900 goals scored WORLD CUP WINNER (1 time)\nextreme accuracy and usage of the outside part of his right boot, he could score goals crossing the ball in the keepers area from side to side at ground level.\n\n9 \nHugo Sanchez over 400 goals scored Ultra aerial game !! This guy was a F1 airplane (the soccer ball were his missiles)scissors kicks, bicycle kicks, dive heading, over heading, besides of his great accuracy for free kick shoots, dribbling.\n\n10 \nFranz Beckenbauer, DAS KAISER, WORLD CUP WINNER (1 time) the best German player ever, over Matthaus, Klinsmann, Bierhoff, Sammer and many other German mann (not bad spelled this is the way Germans use plurar for man in Germany).\n\n11 and on ? I'll let this one at your choice, Puskas, Alfredo Di Stefano, David Beckham, Luis Figo, Ryan Giggs, Manuel Rui Costa, Gabiel Omar Batistuta, Ortega, Luis Hernandez, Cuauhtemoc Blanco. They did not nor will ever win a WORLD CUP. Too bad for them, what a shame.
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Maradona, plain and simple.  He really made a difference on the teams he pleyed on.  he made Napoli Italian League champ, after him, they have floundered.  In 1986, he almost single- handedly got Argentina to the World Cup championship.  His two goals against England in that World Cup are memorable.  The first one because of his savvy at using his hand and fooling the referee and the second one because of his mastery to get past so many players.\nComparable, his teammates were weaker than say Pele's or Beckenbauer's or today's Ronaldo's and Ronaldinho's when they achieved their highest points.
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Rooney, Ronaldinho, Maradona and Pele