Greatest footballer ever?

[Jack of Arcades]

I take it those new kneepads are comfortable?

[Hasso]

just for the pain he's caused the english he'd get my vote.

[Skjonne]

To answer the question in the title: No.

[jedi]

I don't even follow "futbol" and I know the answer is Pele.

Edit: I don't even think Maradona is close.

[Chairman Wood]

On all of Pele's WC winning teams he was supported all around by a very good team. There is no performance in a championship/playoff of all of sports that compares with what Maradona did in the World Cup in 86'. He won a world championship by himself. Also, I would guess that even if you asked everyone in Brazil who the greatest footballer was ever that less than half of them would answer Pele.

[ToneLoc]

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Correct, but just because the other half would answer Ronaldo...

[Chairman Wood]

I don't really think that's true. He is a great player but I don't think he has really achieved the level of greatness of a Pele/Maradona/Cruyff/Beckenbauer/ just yet (Not that I don't think that he will). The reason I say that is Pele just isn't all that beloved and respected in his home country.

[cockandbull]

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Correct, but just because the other half would answer Ronaldo...

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i'd guess pele would get 50% of the votes, the rest wouldn't go to ronaldo. Read about garrincha...

[jdl22]

I may have asked this before, but something I don't understand is why so many people decide to get clever and say "futbol." It's related to the thread awhile back on overpronouncing Spanish words when speaking English, makes no sense.

Basically everyone in the world says their version of football, either a translation or simply a word that sounds like the word football in English (this included futbol, which is at times referred to in Spanish as Balompie a direct translation). So why do you say it in Spanish?

[Chairman Wood]

This man is the epitome of everything that can go bad with fame/money etc. I was in Argentina a little over a year ago. A man about the age of 20 told me that when he was in school most students had to go by their middle name because over half the kids in the class were named Diego. It is very different than even the hoopla that was around Michael Jordan in his prime. Even in his present state, he is still worshipped like a God.