Why discounting those ''friendly games'' ? During Pele's time those games had much more significance/importance than they are having today. For...
Both were instrumental in leading their national teams troughout the competition and getting them a medal. The difference is that they had...
http://pele.m-qp-m.us/english/pele_statistics.shtml Here is a link that lists EVERY GAME Pele played on a PROFESSIONAL SENIOR level. There are...
Agreed. The thread question is a joke. Messi 2014 was good, one of the three best players in Brazil, but his overall performance... Not even...
-----------------------------------------Zenga 1990 Paulo Ferreira 2006--------Tresor 1982--------Šimić 1998---------Tarantini 1978...
Agreed. It was Maradona's best WC match ever. Definitely a 6+.
Weird. I always thought differently. I'm not sure, but El Grafico rated his performance pretty well. Here are some Diego's plays against them in...
Agreed completely. These are really special posts on Di Stefano. Just continue on, Vegan.
Nice. :) I remember him playing very well against Belgium too. It was a performance similar to the one against Hungary. And btw, surprised to...
Happy to get Stoichkov instead of Bellone. My team looks like this: -----------------------------------------Zenga 1990 Paulo Ferreira...
Agree with you here. Honestly, while watching Brazil's games against France and Sweden, while Pele actually scored a fair amount of goals (a few...
This is great. Hopefully, a thread for Pele and one for Maradona will open soon too.
I understand you. My personal opinion is different: I think his overall impact and performance in 1970 is in a Top 5 or at least close to it. He...
If so, then it's a shame really. Every forum, no matter to what is related, has a sort of ''agenda'' though, so what you are saying is inevitable.
I already explained my reasons. Btw, Puck, thanks for the videos. It's a privilege to be able to watch these games.
Ok. Btw, in my opinion Jairzinho 1970 is the best pick of the previous round. One of the all-time top performers in WC history. My Tarantini 1978...
I wanted Thuram 1998 on that position... :( But ok, if there are no other suggestions (left winger perhaps ?).
Obviously it seems like it. But only a ''handful of games'' actually can be found during that period. We don't have a profound corpus of Pele's...
Sent my last attempt (pretty risky, but whatever).
He seems to be a really great goalkeeper.
The posters who picked the players I tried to get are lucky bastards. :p
You can compare his game during the early 60s with his performances after the world cup too - the conclusion would be the same. And as I said in...
From the games I've seen of Pele, I was most impressed with his performances during the early 60s. His goal ratio confirms that too. Later on, he...
Sorry, have been very busy and also was without internet connection for a couple of days. Will send you two picks then in one hour.
WTF !? :) Now I'm thinking I could have gone with some better players, but it's fine.