you can buy DVD of pele goals & his playing days (showed on TV before). oen can also do with DVD of maradona (i have one)

both are equally gifted.

the thing that separates gifted & immortal, pele had very much good skillful team mates in club & esp in the great "Brazilian national team". In some WC, brazil probably could win without Pele. thats how gifted the brazilian team was. So discount the total amount of of WC wins as a yardstick.

for maradona, sure there were talented teammates with the argentine national team but he almost single handily brought mediocre "napoli fc" success.

dont need to even he carried the weight of argentina's world cup win singlehandily.

close call in skill but for all the deficiency maradona had to face, it makes him in my books

maradona (as the greatest footballer) > pele

This post has been edited by koolspyda: Jun 1 2009, 03:42 PM

both are gifted enough to excel. there were clips & full matches shown of both players. Dont underestimate the 1970s, 80s,90s football as technically naive.

In maradonas playing days the only way to stop him was to hack him down. being smaller (oppose to clumsy tall) but his upper built helped him with a perfect agility. He wasnt a slouch in sprint also. he neednt stepovers all the time to get away from his markers. he has much trickery (as does now both CR7 & ronaldino)

the biggest X factor, between pele / maradona is the ability to live up in BIG matches, not fade into obscurity in these games; not because of being marked out/or out of position.

it a joy to watch old world cup games & big big matches.

didnt bother with video links (as sometimes it doesnt show as much)

what i have is ori DVDs. bought them from video shop some time back.

great thought of a quote. its true no one (1) person makekh a team; but he sure as hell makes the differences in big, huge games when it counts. surely given the weight maradona carries with napoli & with argentina; he nudges over pele (again no disrespect to pele, he is a super talent probably the greatest brazilian footballer to this day the world has ever seen).

I watch my DVD of life & times of "Maradona"

He said in an post match interview
(in the height of the triumphant Napoli clinching the italian championship title)
"Maradona is maradona, Pele is the greatest; I'm just a Normal player"

for a great player to exhibit such humility (some say arrogance/some say he's beyond such trivial) of "who is the greatest"

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Added on July 15, 2009, 10:26 amthose earlier days TV1 or was it TV2 (maybe one of the malaysian local channel) use to run BBC documentaries of "world cup" games leading to the next FIFA world cup tournaments

I also watched docu of life & times "pele" (in his younger days /short BW clips to his NY cosmos & his 1,000 goal (penalty); you know the latin type of of celebration when a goal is scored " GGGOOOOOOOOOOOAOAAAAAAAAALLL, GGOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALXXXXXXXXXX!" (cough cough)

yeah i admit, i'm not that young like some younglings here, i seen those bits on pele.



pele CAN dribble, juggle, head & score from freekicks (maybe not as stylishly as his brazilian compariots)
if my memory serves me right on pele clips. if i'm not mistaken there was one (local brazilian league game) where he (pele) took the ball from his teams goalkeeper/defence dribbled all the way & passed the opposition keeper but missed the goal as it went narrowly past the post. that how brilliant dribber he is.

if the version of not so good dribbler as in "ronaldo step overs" then yeah, he's more purposeful on that But still a typical brazilian showboat at times. which is why many still adores brazilian flair

BBC has a tonsfull of such anology /docu views of many players, watching them & listening to those great BBC commentaries is something to treasure. wish someone can get hold of such

This post has been edited by koolspyda: Jul 15 2009, 11:04 AM