How can people compare Diego Maradona to Pele?
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Yes, how can they? Maradona's hability is way better nad nicer, it looks like magic what he does with a football, or tennis ball or golf ball or even an orange.... hve you ever seen him playing with those??\nPele was very good and also intelligent for playing with his team, and scored lot of goals with his head (he is taller).\nMaradona is now a drug adict trying hard to recover, he still likes night and girls alot.\nPele is involved on dirty politics and his son is a drug dealer...
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Maradona all the way.
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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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PELE THE GREAT,THE KING .PELE WIN  3 WORLD CUP\n\n 2 RONALDO OR RONALDHINO SHE WIN A 3 CUP\n\n MARADONNA IS A LOSER ,I\nA DRUG USED BY HIM\n\n HE WAS NO A BETTER IS A BAD PLAYER
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Maradona was great but Pele has no equal. Pele led Brazil to a World Cup title when he was 17, that is amazing and will never be equalled. There may be other young players to play in the World Cup but to lead the team to a title is another thing altogether. Pele won three World Cups and Maradona only one.The only thing Maradona had over Pele was that he played in Europe for 12 years.
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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.
194650
u can not say so.....\nPele and Maradona r far better than him...i believe...\nLionel Messi may take that position i think...
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the current crop of football viewers has seen Maradona producing magic with football for Argentina, Naples, etc. He played when the world was in the verge of integration by media and football got the attention of media a lot. \n\nOn the other hand, Pale's dream football was displayed in an era where football was televised to a limited number of viewers, and hence, Pele's magic with football was viewed by only a handful. \n\nAs such, maximum of the current crop of viewers got the opportunity watching Maradona. They have read about Pele, know that Pele was a great player, but never seen him play football.\n\nPeople believe what they see. They saw only Maradona. with footbal. That is why Maradona become better for them than Pele.
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i think that only maradona cruyf and pele could compare due to titles and skills. Ronaldinhio is great but too young, and best didnt won so many titles. between them i choose maradona. he was skillfull we has always played in hard leagues and he won titles without having good players at his side like pele or cruyf.
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Pele of course\nbecause pele his dream fantastic time is more than 15 years, but maradona only some years after world cup 1986.
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I think he is already better. In Maradonna`s time other players were to weak. Today competition is much better and that is why Ronaldinho is better.
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In a poll conducted a couple of years ago by FIFA, audience the world over rated Diego Maradona (Argentina) as the best player ever by giving him the maximum votes. On the other hand, critics rated Pele (Brazil) as the best.\n\nWhereas there exists some element of doubt, Pele is often considered as the best player by players and critics alike.
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Pele was completely dominant on the field. He played for a longer amount of time at a high level. He had field vision, ball skills that make you sick, a shot, and was the vision of excellence. He is the picture perfect poster boy for soccer. \nMaradona on the other hand was a extremely talented player. His ball skill was awesome. Have you watched any of the 1982 or 1986 world cup games. He could single handedly dribble through half of the opposing team and tap it in the net. He could have rivaled Pele for the "title" best ever...but as we all know he let it slip. Drugs and obesity did not fair well for him. \nPele will forever be the epitome of football! Viva Pele!
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They were both brilliant players, but I think that PELE was better!
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RONALDIHO MARADONA PELE
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Pele actually retired in 1977. That was a little longer than 25 years ago. Best player since then A) Maradona or B) Zidane...followed up by C)Romario
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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