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The best three footballers ever were

1, Maradona
2, Pele
3, Zidane

in that order

There's no argument surely?

pele
maradona
archibald

surely no arguement

1. Maradona
2. Pele

3. The rest including Zidane, Cruyff, Beckenbaeur, Platini etc.

hum i might have made a mistake

pele
archibald
gemmil
maradonna

Maradonna
Jinky
Pele

come on jimky aint even top 5 might make top 10

But Gemmel and Archibald do?  ;sleep;

oh i forgot strachan and miller

ironside wtf are you on about?




























you forgot hewitt, rougvie !!!! >:?

Pele

Maradona

Platini

is my top 3 in order


4th is Cruyff

what he said

and black

and the best goalie lieghton

now we are getting somewhere

peter weir too. What a team they were eh?

1) Maradona - mainly because of the extra he use to get out of his fellow team-mates

2) Zidane - the most complete footballer ever

3) Cruyff

4) Pele

5) Best

Rest...

Pele =1

Best =1

Crryuff =3

How can Platini be anywhere near Zidane?

Even Platini admits that he was NO WHERE NEAR AS GOOD AS ZIDANE IN HIS PRIME!!!!!11111111111111111

;)

1. Zola

2. Petrescu

3. Poyet

O rly?

Them 3 use to own my beloved Spurs in the early 00's SO HARD

my personal opinion

 ;nana;

lol
i can carry the list on if you want? lol

 :redcard:

Pele

Zidane

quite a bit of a distance.......

Maradona

even bigger distance....................

everyone else.

Zidane, simply beacuse I never saw the others at their best...

are you high?

On football talent....Maradonna for me

As fantastic players and great ambassadors for the game:

Pele - 1
Beckenbauer/Cruyff - 2
Platini - 3

Zidane in 2nd bracket but obv drops in the ambassador dept.

Geo.

No mentions of Di Stephano or Pushkas?

Unfortunately never seen them.

I watched a prog last week on the different paths taken by Pele and Garrincha (sp?)

Whilst Pele played the footie and then led a bit of a stylish lifestyle and became the big media star, Garrincha preferred to go back to the beach and his mates and have a good drink and a smoke. Yet playing wise their careers where quite similar. And all this with gammy legs!!

From the footage shown throughout the prog, Garrincha looked every bit as good, again I didn't see much of him.

Geo

Di Stephano won:

1 World Club Cup
15 National Championships
5 European Cups
1 European Cup Winners' Cup
1 South American Championship
1 Domestic cup
2 International club competition champions
2 European Footballer awards
1 All-time European Footballer award
6 League top scorer awards
5 National Athlete of the Year awards
2 International club-competition scorer awards


That alone is worth consideration - the fact that he was the main man when Real won 5 European Cups is a big sign he's got to be up there.

I get what you mean though - I've only seen film of a few of his games - including the 7-3 final at hampden.

if you watch footage of pele his dribbling skills are no where near maradona or zidane.

Pele can still get it up though.  Although he does have tablets for that, as part of his advertising deal.  Maradona gets his drugs elsewhere.


As to who's the best, impossible to say really.  On another forum I'm on there's a heated debate about Kobe Bryant being as good as Michael Jordan at basketball.  I'd always side on the Jordan camp, but that's because he was the player I grew up watching when I played.  The same is often the case.  I remember Maradona in his pomp.  Pele was before my time, but my Dad and others from the previous generation have told me about how great he was (and of course I've seen the videos).  Younger people might argue in favour of Zidane - as he's the only one they've really seen much of.

1. Filipe Da Costa
2. Rui Marques
3. Jermaine Beckford

Carlton Palmer


 ;kneelsucker;

i agree

Was it not one of his managers who said in an interview "He covers every blade of grass on the pitch, but you have to when your first touch is so bad" ?

Always loved that quote.

lol.

for me nr 1's, Abe Lenstra (MUCH better than Cruyff who barely makes the dutch top 3), Maradona and Pele/Garrincha (I still haven't decided whether I think Pele or Garrincha is better but I'm almost tempted to say Garrincha)

Unfortunately not. lol

Not many people are up there with those two, but Pele could still stroll past most of the players he played against. Not to mention that being in a time where you'd get hacked to pieces.