Brazil football legend Pele has slammed Barcelona's main man, Lionel
Messi, claiming he is too one-footed to be regarded as the best footballer of
all time. The Brazil legend, Pele, has scored more than 1,000 goals in his
remarkable career, and believes other players than Messi should be
compared to him in terms of greatness. He told Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao
Paulo, “How can you make a comparison between a guy who heads the ball well,
shoots with the left, shoots with the right and another who only shoots with
one leg, only has one skill and doesn’t head the ball well?”
“How can you
compare? To compare with Pele, it has to be someone who shoots well with the
left, shoots well with the right, and scores headers.” "As far as I’m concerned,
[Diego] Maradona was one of the best players ever. If you ask me, 'Was he
better than Messi?' Yes, he was. Much better. “[Franz] Beckenbauer, [Johan] Cruyff were also
excellent players."
Earlier this year, Pele said he believes Neymar is a
better player than both Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
For the first time since 2006, Messi was excluded from
the Ballon d'Or top three, and came fifth. Nonetheless, Messi detains the
record for most goals in a calendar year when he scored 90 goals in 2012, and
he is a five-time Ballon d'Or winner.
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