Why cant the likes of Beckenbauer, Maldini, Baresi and so on be GOATs?
They were so dominant in their own area and time that i certainly think you can make a case for them
Kaiser Franz won 2 ballons, Maldini and Baresi also came close if Im not mistaken
That said i agree with the other guy saying this GOAT debate is rather pointless for numerous reasons
I think that because people playing football to win, if you cannot create goal then maximum you can only get is draw
So for a player to be a GOAT, he must have high participated rating in creating goals (that means numbers of goals and assists combine)
These will take significant part in judgement, then how much trophy they won, and how significant that throphy
Let me take you to an extreme perspective, if there is a Goalkeeper that played 500 games in his career and only conceded 10 goals
Would you consider him as GOAT (greatest footballer of all time) ? Probably no, because there are another players that played 500 games and created more than 500 goals. But people will surely pick that goalkeeper as the greatest goalie of all time
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well look at it this way.
imagine we clone chiellini, but give him handsome dna from DS and ronaldo. imagine how awesome that would be.
we would dominate the handsome market, the instagram market, most sold shirts market, gay market. we would be gods. and then we seal messi dna but fuse it with dybala genetics to create the ultimate forvet
With our imagination, we should make a tv series about a developing country who farming top players DNA trail (sperm)
Pay some fertile woman as surrogate womb, this done around 1995-2000 (milenia). Take care of the kids development (find a family for them), nutrition, hire the trainers, coaches, prepare the infrastructure etc. And give the only purpose of their life is to play football for their country and with ultimate target to win the world cup
We can make the title The 111 (total numbers of the kid that their raise)
11 Goalkeepers,40 Defenders,35 Midfielders,25 Attackers
We can put how the parents love affect their development, as they put in some family. Some parents love their child, some just do their job to raise them etc
And how women (girlfriend) affect their development etc2
And let's start they do this to generate 250 childs, but only 111 born as boy and 139 born as girl
Then the girl is raise to becoming celebrity for their country, some athletes in any kind of sports
With final purpose for them to rebreeding, to keep the genetic