wtf you guyz saying.most of those heroic goals pele scored for brazil.who created and gave the assist for pele have a simple finish.i thought it was garrincha.i think messi in sum ways has a unique ability(solo run) which is far better than anything pele did.just that messi  has to show d extraordinary @ wc2010.

honeric01:

@semid4lyfe
Messi is gud, don't argue that, he's the world best and yes he deserves it but a legend? That i won't but sayin messi is ordinary outside barcelona's wrong. What has c. Ronaldo also achieve for his country?nutting. I think the problem with messi and argentina is the clueless coach called maradona, get them a good coach and u'd see what messi can do.

u know he scored "two" goals in the finals against sweden, right? and he was just SEVENTEEN years old. maradona as an U-21 still couldn't make argentina 1st team for 1978 WC n flopped bad 4 yrs later in 82"

you know maradona was marked out of the final game against germany right? so, if players like burrachager n valdano didn't rise up to the occassion they would probably have lost 2-0 to germany, or wats your definition of "single handedly

So, I don't get what Pele hopes to achieve with his statement.

shadrach77:

i opened a thread specifically for this. five reasons why maradona is better than pele

(1) maradona single handedly won the world cup for argentina - without him there was no argentina - pele however was a star in the middle of a star studded team - his absence was never felt.

(2) football was easier during pele's playing days - it was much tougher when maradona was playing. Maradona even played in Italy which is reknowned for tough defenders yet he made his mark

(3) all pele's goals were either tap-ins or team goals. he never scored individual effort goals like maradona - e.g. england vs argentina 1986.

(4) pele never played in a major european league like premiership or la liga.

(5) pele was given so much space to operate whenever he played. Maradona never enjoyed such luxury. He was always fully marked,

If you don't win laurels,you can't be great.It's a fact in life,not just in sports.
If Messi likes,let him run rings round Europe.He's yet to convince anybody while wearing the blue-and-white of Argentina

smile4kenn:

He deserve more than the award right? 

@deb

  Football in the old days was harder than what we have now, then there was no referees shielding strikers against dangerous tackles, you could get tackled once and that might end your career as a footballer, do you know how many players broke their legs at an early age playing football in the old days?

  Stop comparing the old time way of playing football with now because now's very easy compared to the old age. (if you doubt me, try watching classic football dated from 1960s to 1990s.