I have been priviledged to see a lot of great players in my time, and i have read about how great some players were like John Charles, Puskas, Di stefano, and some others i have seen like pele, Cruyff, eusebio, Platini, zico, Beckenbauer, Mattheus, Didi, Best, Zidane etc
But the best is without any doubt in my mind was Maradona. I have watched him on videos, watched him live on Tv in the world cup and i have never seen any player bar none play the game like he did. He could dribble for fun, go past players, destroy teams sometimes by himself and he won things for both clubs and country and not just small cups the big ones.
For Argentina he won the wc, i don't think that should be underestimated the amount of pressure he was under to do that, as Argentina need to win wc, to alleviate the state of the country and he brought so much joy to that country by virtually doing it by himself sure he had team mates but none of real geniune quality.
Pele was the most successful player in the wc and the politically correct person will tell you he was the best as he was never caught using cocaine or other drugs as well as didnt handle the ball against of all teams England, who have made an excuse of losing the wc that year to being cheated out of it. You still hear the hand of God till today in England. But Pele had world class players to share the pressures with eg after winning the wc in 58, Brazil won it without him in 62 proving they could and 1970 had rivelino, carlos alberto, tostao, Jairzinho and others who will make most peoples best ever squad.
Cruyff was probably the most tactically astute player but he won nothing with Holland and they were a fantastic team with fantastic players, while Platini the best passer of the ball i have seen, never won the world cup either in a fantastic France team
Maradona was the inspiration of Argentina, could pass the ball, short or long better than anyone, play free kicks as good as anyone. What he does on the field, others do on the training field and would dare not try on the field but Maradona would not even think twice about doing it.
With Napoli he won the scudetto twice, the double once and the Uefa once and they were not big at all before he joined them or had not won anything big anyway. While he was there , they never finished lower than 2nd
If you wanna know his true worth, look at Argentian post Maradona, wc98 1/4s, wc2002 1st round and i talked about pressure, the pressure that was put on this Argentina team to win was enormous but it was shared between so called world class players like Veron. Aimar, Bati, Crespo, Lopez and they could not handle it. Something Maradona did by himself in 86 and in 90 took a very very poor team to the final were they lost to a dubious penalty
Where is Napoli now, in serie B, its not just his team achivements, as a player i see Zz as the best right now, but even he cannot go past 4 or 5 players.
I have been priviledged to watch this guy and nobody comes close to natural talent while his charcter has always been questioned, how many geniuses are normal
But the best is without any doubt in my mind was Maradona. I have watched him on videos, watched him live on Tv in the world cup and i have never seen any player bar none play the game like he did. He could dribble for fun, go past players, destroy teams sometimes by himself and he won things for both clubs and country and not just small cups the big ones.
For Argentina he won the wc, i don't think that should be underestimated the amount of pressure he was under to do that, as Argentina need to win wc, to alleviate the state of the country and he brought so much joy to that country by virtually doing it by himself sure he had team mates but none of real geniune quality.
Pele was the most successful player in the wc and the politically correct person will tell you he was the best as he was never caught using cocaine or other drugs as well as didnt handle the ball against of all teams England, who have made an excuse of losing the wc that year to being cheated out of it. You still hear the hand of God till today in England. But Pele had world class players to share the pressures with eg after winning the wc in 58, Brazil won it without him in 62 proving they could and 1970 had rivelino, carlos alberto, tostao, Jairzinho and others who will make most peoples best ever squad.
Cruyff was probably the most tactically astute player but he won nothing with Holland and they were a fantastic team with fantastic players, while Platini the best passer of the ball i have seen, never won the world cup either in a fantastic France team
Maradona was the inspiration of Argentina, could pass the ball, short or long better than anyone, play free kicks as good as anyone. What he does on the field, others do on the training field and would dare not try on the field but Maradona would not even think twice about doing it.
With Napoli he won the scudetto twice, the double once and the Uefa once and they were not big at all before he joined them or had not won anything big anyway. While he was there , they never finished lower than 2nd
If you wanna know his true worth, look at Argentian post Maradona, wc98 1/4s, wc2002 1st round and i talked about pressure, the pressure that was put on this Argentina team to win was enormous but it was shared between so called world class players like Veron. Aimar, Bati, Crespo, Lopez and they could not handle it. Something Maradona did by himself in 86 and in 90 took a very very poor team to the final were they lost to a dubious penalty
Where is Napoli now, in serie B, its not just his team achivements, as a player i see Zz as the best right now, but even he cannot go past 4 or 5 players.
I have been priviledged to watch this guy and nobody comes close to natural talent while his charcter has always been questioned, how many geniuses are normal
