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maidaboi:
ask yourself

how many of such players did we see at the just concluded world cup?

modern football has fade them away

all we care now is results, nobody wants to be entertained again

you can dribble from earth to moon and nobody will care if you are not scoring or providing assist

TheSuperNerd:
There is no resistance or struggle. I am not brainwashed. I have seen every available and possible clips/videos/reels of Pele, Maradona, Eusebio, Garrincha, Didi and several other greats... and ofcos I witnessed Messi and C.Ronaldo from A-Z.
One cant have the perspective I have as one who has carefully and unbiasedly studied all and say anything different than the Truth.

And the truth is Pele is the Greatest Footballer that the beautiful game has ever seen. Every perspective truly and factually supports this. So let it rest. Not all will fall for these messi delusions.

TheSuperNerd:
Away from Football for a bit... our athletes are gearing up for action.

100m star, Kayinsola Ajayi at Commonwealth 2026

The calm before the storm

Lawag3:
I too can say I have seen clips, videos and reels of most of the people you mentioned and I came to the conclusion that Messi better I base my conclusions on the achievement of Messi himself how he achieved these things against who he achieved his achievement( because I believe footballers now are generally better than their counterparts who pioneered the sport) I also base it on the development of the sport it self. I know you said to rest it but am curious but I'm not trying to argue nor change your mind I'm just curious as to what are the perspective and facts that truly and factually support Pele being the goat as the Truth.

I just want you to show them.

Mujtahida:
Gaurdiola has killed them off.

No where is this tragedy writ large than Brazilian football. They just can't cope. They have become like Malawi. They can't produce Ronaldinho, Zico kind of players. It's really sad.

Brazil will not win the world cup again. They won't. I say this because that way of playing is so ingrained in them. Truth is that samba is a way of life, a sweeping culture which expressed itself through football as one of its mode of expression.

Yes Brazil moved away from pure samba after the loss in 82 but that was not a total abandonment of the essentials of samba - flair, rhythm, skillful movement with the ball. They only toned it down and added more pragmatism to it.

But now football has moved away totally with this emphasis on positional play, low block and rigid tactical discipline. This caught Brazil off guard and now Brazil is suffering from a deep identity crisis.

Even if you have a Ronaldinho, positional play and low block will render him useless because such players need you to move so that they can dribble you and create space. Such players have been rendered redundant. For instance tango is a dance in which two people tangle together. Okay you are a good tango dancer but nobody comes and gets tangled with you in the dance. No matter how skilled you are, your skill has been rendered irrelevant.

Now na Rodri be the kind players wey dey thrive in modern football. Stand - in -the- middle -of -pitch- kind- of players and be spraying passes like sprinkler in the middle of a garden.

That kind of deadness is alien to samba. Samba is still alive in music, in art, in the throbbing vivacity of Brazilian urban culture but as far as football is concerned - it is dead. It has become anachronistic. Unfit for the times. I pity Brazil.

Gaurdiola is a plague. He brought the architectural style called brutalism - functional, cold, dead, ugly - into football. May tiki taka perish!

TheSuperNerd:
You have not seen all or studied all to the extent I have done. So dont come to my mention and lie that you have seen this or that to score cheap points. I am 100% sure you did not watch even more than 2 clips of Didi.

Also, You in particular seem hell bent on derailing this thread with your messi delusions. I told you before to rest it and not bring your zombie-fandom to my mentions again. Let this end here. You messi fanatics will not forcefully brainwash another.

If you push further, I block you... it is that simple.

AndSunGorilla:
Ikenna Eneh, John Aranka, Furo, Chukwu Ndukwe, ifeanyi Ekwueme, Azubuike Oliseh, Peter Utaka, Kevin Amuneke, Ogbonna Kanu, Justice Christopher etc real ballers o.

TheSuperNerd:
On Arokodare's Ajax Move...

🚨🇳🇬 JUST IN: Toluwalase Arokodare earned more than four and a half million euros at Wolverhampton Wanderers last season.

However, after Wolves got relegated, Tolu is earning 2,3 million euros a year. Ajax will cover his full salary.

🇳🇱 Ajax

TheSuperNerd:
You have not seen all or studied all to the extent I have done. So dont come to my mention and lie that you have seen this or that to score cheap points.

Also, You in particular seem hell bent on derailing this thread with your messi delusions. I told you before to rest it and not bring your zombie-fandom to my mentions again. Let this end here. You messi fanatics will not forcefully brainwash another.

If you push further, I block you... it is that simple.

MetalJigsaw:
Osimhen could be heading to EPL as Brentford is interested. Nice one.

MetalJigsaw:
Osimhen could be heading to EPL as Brentford is interested. Nice one.

TheSuperNerd:
And into the 100m Final he goes. Won his Semifinals with ease. Only Naija man in the 100m men final too at the Common wealth Games as the other 2 lads (Ashe and Fakorede) finished outside the qualifying positions.

MetalJigsaw:
Osimhen could be heading to EPL as Brentford is interested. Nice one.

Lawag3:
No don't do this I really do enjoy your takes on many things especially on this thread even when they are not popular because I always see the sense I what you say but this? i could also call you a liar and say all you've said concerning this GOAT issue is because you're delusional but I won't say that because I don't know you I have no way of verifying that you're lying.

I wasn't trying to score cheap points the videos of past footballers are not accessible to exclusively you and I wasn't trying to argue knowing you on this thread I was trying to pick your brain on this issues since most of what you say to me holds substance.

On me derailing the thread with Messi delusions I rarely post on here I have mentioned you less than five times on Messi Pele goat status you told me to rest it and I did until today I saw your post about that I was like let me just ask why and how you came to see Pele as your goat I was civil and I have been civil on this thread. It is your prerogative to ignore or answer but the way you did disappointed me you choose to slander me and for what ?
I'll give this a rest

You can go ahead and block me. you're inconsequential where I'm concerned so your blocking neither adds or takes from me

TheSuperNerd:
Kayinsola Ajayi... Hopefully to become our first ever 100m Men's Commonwealth Games Champion? Time will tell.

Kingjite1:
Please does anyone has the link to watch our women game

Kingjite1:
Please does anyone has the link to watch our women game

SymphonyRad:
Source?

TheSuperNerd:
You hardly post here yet the only thing you majorly wanna yap about when you come to my mention is your messi delusions. I find that very disturbing.

And you and I know you are lying about seeing enough clips and videos of all the Greats I mentioned and didnt mention. You cant even tell me offhand now and without consulting any clips or internet search about Garrincha's profile in detail. Or about Didi. Ofcos you saw some clips... only few clips but you never saw enough.

And no you cant dare call me a liar because I have the track record here of always meaning what I say. If I can consistently follow and talk confidently about Nigerians footballers all across the globe, locally and abroad so easily and dig up any info on them past, present and beyond, why would I have to lie about watching and analysing all available clips and videos of the greats in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s eras?

Look, it is obvious you are just a messi delusionist and Messi zombie fan who cant stand my posts everytime I happen to discuss who the GOAT of GOATs or True GOAT of Football is.

So I will gladly block you now because I dont want any more of your derailing intrusions as the only thing you discuss in my mentions is Messi and hardly anything on Nigerian football.

Napoleon55:
All these names wey una dey bring out eh.

But Ogbonna Kanu and Justice Christopher were decent.

MetalJigsaw:
Na yam I get, sauce no dey 😂