Best Soccer Player Ever

 

in 2006/07 Ronaldhino was sublime best player for many seasons, but lost it when all the camera lences was focuesd on him in World Cup Germany,

 

but I like del Piero the most

 

 

 

For importance to his team, I think it's Maradona. He was the leader and did too magical stuff, making goals AND assistance to his team mates.

 

Stoichov was impressive and Zidane was the master in the recent days. But as Platini said once: "Zidane can do with the ball what Maradona could do with a golf ball" and he was right. Maradona was impressive, just a pleasure to watch. Messi is still not there, though he plays great, but I think football nowadays is completely lost of character... they are more worry to be on public anounces than playing football. CR7 wuld quit before he plays like in the 80's with that so many kicks and stuff...

 

Ignoring that little blooper in the 2006 World Cup, are we?

 

Probably Pele ... although I can not compare many of the others and their achievements when they were younger.

 

I got to see him in Araraquara (state of Sao Paolo, Brazil), who was, at the time a part of the same league that Santos was in ... I am not sure that a small town like Araraquara is still involved in stuff like that since Santos and many other teams are major money investments and there is no money in small towns.

 

In one game alone, and this was before the Cup in '68, Pele has scored 2 goals in the first half hour and they took him off the field ... and he was lustily booed and half the crowd left the stadium at that point. I don't think that the Maradona's and many of the others after, ever got to see stuff like that in their earlier days ... being that th egame is so commercial now ... and then there is the injury brigade, whose job is make sure that some of the greats ended up with damaged knees or ankles the rest of their life ... what they did to Ronaldinho in Europe should have gotten about 10 different players banned for several years to stop that stuff on the spot!

 

I'm not sure that we can see another figure that big, good or wonderful to watch ... the game has gotten so brutal and physical, that the chance to see someone graceful and clean and sliding around like a gazelle are probably over ... they will get killed and run over by all the tanks out there ... guess what's happening to all the forests around the world? .... same thing!