[Dan_]

Originally posted by farhad

Sorry Dan but I'd go with Maradona. He played in a time when the game was much more competitive and the defenders were actually quality. He took a nobody team like Napoli to win the best cups, and serie A before Premiership was known to be the hardest league in the world, and basically won the world cup for an average Argentina, almost won it in Italia90. Mrradona's goals were more created himself, but Pele's goals were more assisted than created. Pele came at a time where Brazil were already the best team sarrounded by players and legends as good as him. pele never came to europe to test himself, he played in a least competitive league games where goals he scroed against were very average teams.

I'd possibly go with Maradona too but it's obviously a close call.I only disagreed with the assertion that Diego was 100 times the player that Pele was.You don't get the type of reputation that Pele's got without being a very complete player, he was so much more than just a goalscorer.