settle an argument

[Nem]

Pele

Maradona

Platini

is my top 3 in order


4th is Cruyff

How can Platini be anywhere near Zidane?

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

[Rookie (Rodney)]

1. Zola

2. Petrescu

3. Poyet

[Nem]

1. Zola

2. Petrescu

3. Poyet

O rly?

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

[TightEnd]

Pele

Maradona

Platini

is my top 3 in order


4th is Cruyff

How can Platini be anywhere near Zidane?

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

my personal opinion

 

[Rookie (Rodney)]

1. Zola

2. Petrescu

3. Poyet

O rly?

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

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

[Nem]

1. Zola

2. Petrescu

3. Poyet

O rly?

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

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

 

[The Baron]

Pele

Zidane

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

Maradona

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

everyone else.

[TheChipPrince]

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

[ACE2M]

Pele

Zidane

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

Maradona

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

everyone else.

are you high?

[Geo the Sarge]

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.

[Rod Paradise]

No mentions of Di Stephano or Pushkas?

[Geo the Sarge]

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

[Rod Paradise]

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.

[ACE2M]

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

[kinboshi]

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.