Pele or Maradona?

Question

Which one do you consider to be the true king of football? Why?

Answer 1

Pele!

International Caps  92  

International Goals  77  

Teams  Santos, New York Cosmos  

Team Honours  World Cup (1958, 62, 70)

World Club Championship (1962, 63)

Sao Paulo State Championship (1956, 58, 60, 61, 62, 64, 56, 67, 68)  

Individual Honours  South American Player of the Year (1973)  

His astonishing skill, sheer power and speed on the ball are legendary.  His ‘football-brain’ was as keen as any ever seen and his ability to find the ball, use every yard of space and very quickly find weaknesses in any defensive system is unmatched.  

Combine those attributes with his great sense of ethics and unwavering good sportsmanship over two decades and one has to ask, how can you even dare to ask such a question?

A better question would have been Maradona-v-Best, then you can way up two players who spent most of their careers off their faces on drugs.

Answer 2

Pele without a doubt. Pele never tested positive for drugs, his football game was clean and he did scored all those goals without any substance in his body. Maradona was like a god inside the stadium but he tested so many times for drugs that we really dont know now if all those wonderful moves he did (and his stamina!) were due to his football abilities or due to the amount of drugs in his system. They were role models for kids, only Pele continues to be one and he works with Unicef and is still a healthy man while Maradona has abandoned himself to a life of alcohol and drugs. It's a pity as he was a great player. But the king was, is and will always be PELE.