odessasteps Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 (edited) RIP Pele Edited December 29, 2022 by odessasteps 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 (edited) The best to ever to it. RIP. Edited December 29, 2022 by J.T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Believe it or not, my folks saw Pele live in his prime when his old club Santos played Napoli at Yankee Stadium in 1968. To hear her describe the atmosphere, they had almost 50,000 people and the whole place lost their collective minds when he scored off a header. I can't even imagine what that must've been like. All sports have spirited debates over who the best player in history was. Soccer - none whatsoever. Said debate begins and ends at the magical feet of Pele. Descanse em paz. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubbymark Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 The reason it's a debate for some is because Pele didn't play any club football in Europe. What we do have of Pele is pretty special, especially since football was much more physical and violent than it is now with all the diving and flopping. RIP Pele- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert S Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 2 hours ago, Pete said: (...) All sports have spirited debates over who the best player in history was. Soccer - none whatsoever. Said debate begins and ends at the magical feet of Pele. (...) To be honest, I have rarely have seen the term "best of all time" used in regards to football at all. For one, there are too many position that are not comparable (I mean how can you even try to compare Pelé with Lev Yashin or Paolo Maldini, I suppose you run into the same issues in all team sports), plus the game has changed so much over the last century (to start with, an average professional player (depending on the position, of course) nowadays covers something like 11 to 12 km per game, in the 1960ies that number was in the 7 to 8 km range, IIRC) that I would not dare to compare a player of the same position of lets say the 1930s (it's even hard to define what a defender, a midfielder or a forward was back than considering that in current terms the teams used strategic lineups like 2-3-5) with a player of the 1960s with a player of the 1990s with a current player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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odessasteps Posted December 30, 2022 Author Share Posted December 30, 2022 This took me like 30 minutes of looking through mid 1970s DC books to find finally. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuerrillaMonsoon Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 I really got confused when I saw Pete post in this thread having already misread the thread title. But yes, RIP Pele, that guy had a top 3 all time erectile dysfunction ad 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 RIP Pele. Thoughts with his family and friends at this difficult time xxx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Always loved this iconic picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted January 4, 2023 Author Share Posted January 4, 2023 Quote FIFA President Gianni Infantino has clarified his reasons for taking a 'selfie' in front of Pelé's coffin at the Brazilian legend's wake. Who'd have thought we'd long for Sepp Blatter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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