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Old 12-02-2008, 03:37 PM #5
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Originally posted by GiRTh
I think Maradona was better too. Much of the hype surrounding Pele is a bit of a sham. Take his 1000 goals for instance. To score 1000 goals he had to be banging 40 goals a season for about 15 season. Not a chance.
The proper figure is something like 600 goals but he includes so many goals scored in meaningless games to bump it up.

Both of them were obviously excellent players, to say one is 100 times better than the other is foolish.
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