Best (true) football player of all time...

[Soulforged]

This opinion has been asked to the world audience already and we all know who was elected (Maradona, if you didn't know it ), but a little fight is always good to warm up...

To me it's between di Stefano and Maradona, but Maradona gave us one world cup and that beatiful goal, the best of all times, an acronic space in time that will stay forever like a piece of the most precious art...

Let's here it.

[Strike For The South]

joe montana

[Soulforged]

joe montana

Who????

[Strike For The South]

Who????

played quarterback for the 49ers

[dessa14]

i really thought zidane was good.
anyway, SFS, he said real football, not crappy american sport.
it was heaps funny the other day, i was playing futsal and some american jokes thought that american football required more balls, so we took them on at futsal.
half of them were bitching about how dirty we were and calling for penalties, when we were just playing normally.
thanks,
dizzy

[TheSilverKnight]

played quarterback for the 49ers

Wrong thread man...we're not talking about American football...

For me it's Maradona!

[Craterus]

Keegan.

What?

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Wheres George Best, Moore, Zico?

Maradonna in his youth, Cruyff, Hagi, Zoff , Basten, Gullit, Zidane, Rooney( come on he will be), Pele, Eusebio, Dino Baggio, Matthias(sp), Socrates, Romario all greats. Theres too many to put down

[Mount Suribachi]

Much as I despise the little coke-snorting, gangster befriending, cheeseburger munching, obese, arrogant little cheat, I have to say Diego Maradonna.

His play in the 86 world cup was the best I have ever seen from a footballer, like he was from a different planet. Bobby Robson said something to the effect of "you could have taken Maradonna, and put him on any of the other 8 quarter finalists and they would have won the world cup" and he was right.

Arroyo, what Maradona did is something common, all sports have dirty playing, but you know Maradona because he's overly to famous, there're worst things, please come on....

Something common???? Please, list for me these common examples of players scoring goals in the World Cup quarter finals with their hands and claiming it was "The hand of God".

[Soulforged]

Something common???? Please, list for me these common examples of players scoring goals in the World Cup quarter finals with their hands and claiming it was "The hand of God".

I don't have an specific example, but there's lots of goals with hands, in offside, faults that are simulated, that's what am talking about. It seems that the british have a lot of hate , Maradona instead has lots of love. And he didn't claim that the goal was "The hand of God", it was some periodist, from here i think. Though some nutters here still call him God, i really don't care because i don't believe.

[Fabolous]

Tom Brady
For real Pele, he was incredible.

[Del Arroyo]

I don't have an specific example, but there's lots of goals with hands, in offside, faults that are simulated, that's what am talking about. It seems that the british have a lot of hate , Maradona instead has lots of love. And he didn't claim that the goal was "The hand of God", it was some periodist, from here i think. Though some nutters here still call him God, i really don't care because i don't believe.

It was right after the game he won with that goal. He had an interview on Mexican television. The interviewer was asking him-- "So, that goal you scored, that was a hand-goal, right? I mean, we all saw the replays, and you clearly punched it into the net."

Maradona said-- "No, no creo que lo meti con la mano. Pero, si fuera gol de mano, fue la mano de Dios."

Or-- "No, I don't believe I put it in with my hand. But, if it was a hand-goal, it was the hand of God."

Direct Maradona quote. So you really think this guy isn't an a-hole?

DA

[caesar44]

joe montana

Football , not "catch the ball , run and jump on people"

[caesar44]

Btw - PELE !!!

More than 1,200 goals in the highest levels of copetition
At the age of 18 , took 1st world cup with 2 goals in the final
At the age of 30 , took 2nd world cup with 1 goal in the final
Played in 4 world cups , 12 goals
Took his team , Santos to heaven - 6 Brazilian championships , 2 Libertadores and 1 Intercontinental cup
The King of football by any standard
A Genius in Blue and Yellow uinform
The first and the last
Did not left his team for Europan money
Was , and is , a great person

Maradona - second
The Dutch - third
Di stphano - 4th
Pushcash - 5th
The kizer - 6th
Platini - 7th
Massasa - 12,854,562th

[Oaty]

John Elway

As far as Euoropean football, no idea I don't keep up to date on that.

[Meneldil]

I faithfully hate football, but I have to admit that watching Zidane playing with a ball is really enjoyable.

[Soulforged]

[QUOTE]

Btw - PELE !!!

More than 1,200 goals in the highest levels of copetition
At the age of 18 , took 1st world cup with 2 goals in the final
At the age of 30 , took 2nd world cup with 1 goal in the final
Played in 4 world cups , 12 goals
Took his team , Santos to heaven - 6 Brazilian championships , 2 Libertadores and 1 Intercontinental cup
The King of football by any standard
A Genius in Blue and Yellow uinform
The first and the last
Did not left his team for Europan money
Was , and is , a great person

Non of this makes him the best and the 1200 goals is something invented, i think that he's counting the goals since he was 5 ,*cough* no is serious.

Maradona could do with the ball things that are beyond any real standard.

PS: I've notice that many of you've hatred towards him... i really don't know why, he rose from poberty helped others and never said i'm the best player of the world, in any case Pele is arrogant (i remember him here in the tribute to Maradona saluting all the people with that condencedent actitude).

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Well I dont see any "true" football players on that list So Ill go with Joe Montana on offense and Lawerence Taylor on Defence.

[caesar44]

[QUOTE=Soulforged]

Non of this makes him the best and the 1200 goals is something invented, i think that he's counting the goals since he was 5 ,*cough* no is serious.

Maradona could do with the ball things that are beyond any real standard.

PS: I've notice that many of you've hatred towards him... i really don't know why, he rose from poberty helped others and never said i'm the best player of the world, in any case Pele is arrogant (i remember him here in the tribute to Maradona saluting all the people with that condencedent actitude).

I would not expect from an Argentinian to say something else
Hey , Maradona is no. 2 , you should be happy

[Kaiser of Arabia]

joe montana

Never. John Elway.

[Big_John]

there is no question. pele is the correct answer.

[Soulforged]

there is no question. pele is the correct answer.

Jajaja...yes there's a question that question is called Maradona.

[Del Arroyo]

If you ask me Maradona must be disqualified for sheer ass-monkeydom. Punching a World-Cup-winning goal in with your fist and then saying it was the hand of god is a little too much IMO.

That said I don't know that much about futbol except that Maradona is an ass and people throughout much of the world are NUTS over it (futbol).

DA

[Soulforged]

If you ask me Maradona must be disqualified for sheer ass-monkeydom. Punching a World-Cup-winning goal in with your fist and then saying it was the hand of god is a little too much IMO.

That said I don't know that much about futbol except that Maradona is an ass and people throughout much of the world are NUTS over it (futbol).

DA

Well it would be very good if you create a thread called rant against Maradona. Seriously Arroyo, what Maradona did is something common, all sports have dirty playing, but you know Maradona because he's overly to famous, there're worst things, please come on....

[Del Arroyo]

Well it would be very good if you create a thread called rant against Maradona. Seriously Arroyo, what Maradona did is something common, all sports have dirty playing, but you know Maradona because he's overly to famous, there're worst things, please come on....

Everything I know about futbol I learned from Mexicans, therefore I am biased and in the end I don't really care anyway

I might create a separate thread called "rant against Maradona" if (a) I knew enough about Maradona to rant about him and (b) there were enough people in this forum who'd know what the hell I was talking about.

But I think there's about enough exposure here to Maradona-dom to support just about 1 thread for all Maradona-istic issues.

DA

[ah_dut]

there is no question. pele is the correct answer.

what he said

[Taurus]

Pele

[Louis VI the Fat]

Diego and Zizou.

With the narrowest of margins, I had to vote for El Diego.

[Mouzafphaerre]

there is no question. pele is the correct answer.

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[Mouzafphaerre]

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A correct poll, according the orgiquette, would be:

Pele
GAH!
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