Imagine Pele in todays limited contact game. All records would be broken.
View Poll Results: Greatest male footballer of all time
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Pele
45 20.64% -
Maradona
38 17.43% -
Ronaldhino
2 0.92% -
Ronaldo (Brazil)
5 2.29% -
Messi
57 26.15% -
Ronaldo (Portugal)
35 16.06% -
Maldini
1 0.46% -
Zidane
6 2.75% -
Cruyff
14 6.42% -
Beckenbauer
0 0% -
Di Stefano
3 1.38% -
Someone not listed above
12 5.50%
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16-06-2018 10:13 AM #32
Greatest!
Always very subjective, but in my humble Pele is the most complete football player I have seen in way over 50 years of watching the game. Best I ever seen playing in a game that I was at would have to be Maradona.
The 2 tax dodgers of todays game are both fantastic players and we are lucky to be able to be entertained by them.
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16-06-2018 10:28 AM #34This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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16-06-2018 10:32 AM #36This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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16-06-2018 10:39 AM #37
Lionel Messi is the best footballer of all time.
I think people are being caught up in the moment with Ronaldo's free kick last night.
Barcelona don't have anywhere near as cohesive a side as Real Madrid these days yet Messi still drags Barca to league titles which for me is a bigger achievement than Ronaldo playing in a Champions League winning side.
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16-06-2018 10:43 AM #38
George Best for me. Pele though so too.
Every gimmick hungry yob,
Digging gold from rock and roll
Grabs the mic to tell us,
He'll die before he's sold.
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16-06-2018 10:46 AM #39
Pele for me every time. His performances in the 1970 WC in Mexico as part of that legendary Brazilian team were outstanding and probably get better with time.
We are particularly lucky to have 2 of the greatest ever in Messi and Ronaldo playing right now. I would also say even that though he is a footballing genius, I just can’t warm to Ronaldo. He comes across as an arrogant bawbag. I doubt he’ll lose any sleep over that though and I’d definitely take him at ER if he ever gets bored at Real Madrid 😉
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16-06-2018 10:49 AM #40
In the interests of gender equality why bother adding greatest male footballer of all time to the question? Surely greatest footballercovers all bases and if anyone wants to argue the case for a woman then fine? It’s all PC gone daft these days
FWIW, Ronaldo and Messi are both awesome footballing machines. Pleased to be able to say that I saw the wee fellae in action live.
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16-06-2018 10:54 AM #42
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"Greatest Male Footballer"
Lol.
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16-06-2018 11:03 AM #43
Bit of a thread hijack but who do people consider the best Scottish player of all time? Dalglish? Law?
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16-06-2018 11:22 AM #44This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Best to do it by decades to save to many silly results.
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16-06-2018 11:25 AM #45This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
True but scoring goals is the hardest and most important aspect of the game. It makes sense.
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16-06-2018 11:26 AM #46
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Between Christino Ronaldo and Maradonna for me.
Messi doesn't produce at international level like those 2.
If you consider Ronaldo is still that good at 33 he edges it for me over Madonna who wasn't having g the same impact and went a bit off the rails.
Honourable mentions to pele and zidane
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16-06-2018 11:31 AM #47This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Last edited by calumhibee1; 16-06-2018 at 11:34 AM.
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16-06-2018 11:41 AM #48
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Controversial that messi won that award at the last world cup.
Ronaldo is miles ahead in international goals and led Portugal to the euros 2 years ago.
Messi decided to give up at the last copa America and retired!!
I'm not saying Messi doesn't play well at international level. I just feel Ronaldo performs internationally at a higher level.
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16-06-2018 11:45 AM #49This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Ronaldo has scored 84 in 151 caps and Messi ha scored 64 in 124 caps. Not bad for someone who's never really played as a centre forward and probably created a barrel load from the number 10 position.
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16-06-2018 12:01 PM #52
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1.Messi
2.Cristiano
3.Ronaldo
4.Ronaldinho.
The Ronaldo and Ronaldinho's peak was no where near the other 2 but as far as talent they were right up there.
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16-06-2018 12:07 PM #53
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Let's see how Messi gets on this tournament but overall I still think Ronaldo is better. Done it in 2 different leagues too. Doubt Messi will leave Barca so hard to know how he would do outside Spain.
Think we might have to agree to disagree on this one.
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16-06-2018 12:09 PM #54
Maradona for me. That season at Napoli and the World Cup in '86 were something else. What i would also say is that players from those days had nowhere near the protection that Messi and Ronaldo get. Back then a defender could quite literally mark you out the game. The Italian defender Gentille has the football boots he wore when he put Maradona out the 82 world cup in a glass case on his matlepiece!!
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16-06-2018 12:11 PM #55This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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16-06-2018 12:12 PM #56
George Best for me. Genius is a much overused word but he certainly was one.
I don't see that his lack of a World Cup Winner's medal is relevant. If he'd been born Brazilian etc. he'd have had more than one of those tucked away.
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16-06-2018 12:13 PM #57This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I think you could be pretty confident that Messi would do great in another league.
He’s bossed a number of English sides during his career, for example.
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16-06-2018 12:27 PM #59This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Flip side of that argument is that the game was so much slower and attacking players had a lot more time.
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16-06-2018 12:57 PM #60
As great and talented player that he was, Best had far too short a career to be considered among the greatest players ever. At the peak of his career he was undoubtedly one of the world's top players, maybe even the greatest at the time. If he had not self destructed at such a young age and been able to continue at the top level well into his 30s as so many do nowadays then I'm sure he would be in the top 10 greatest players ever at the very least. Unfortunately he never realised the limits of what his talents could achieve after winning the European Cup at a young age. That was part of his downfall as he saw that as the most he could ever achieve in the game.
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