Greatest footballer of all time?

**R4ge** · 06-20-2011, 01:13 AM

Who was the greatest football of all time? In my opinion Maradona had the most pure skills, but Cruyff had better vision, intelligence, passing ability and he was also much classier overall in terms of his attitude. Other than that, Zidane was the best player I ever saw (live) in my lifetime. Cruyff is the best overall for me.

**Lars** · 06-20-2011, 01:42 AM

I picked Johan Cruyff as well. Just an incredible player. Maradona and Laudrup on the following places.

**~~GeistFaust~~** · 06-20-2011, 03:13 AM

Beckenbauer or Cyuff both were masters of the game. I think Beckenbauer was a very intelligent observer of the game. While Cyuff was an artist with the ball played brilliantly with almost like he was doing art work with the ball out on the field.

**Svipdag** · 06-20-2011, 03:19 AM

Pele

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**Debaser11** · 06-20-2011, 03:19 AM

A lot of people are torn between the negro from Brazil and the mestizo cokehead from Argentina.

**Rainraven** · 06-20-2011, 03:20 AM

The first football game I ever watched was the 2006 World Cup final, I'm sure Zidane had something to do with me then starting to play myself

**~~Riki~~** · 06-20-2011, 03:23 AM

Luis Figo

**Lars** · 06-20-2011, 04:05 AM

Originally Posted by Riki

Luis Figo

The thread is about who you think is the greatest football player of all time. Not the guy with the greasiest hair.

**antonio** · 06-20-2011, 09:43 AM

I voted for Di Stefano because:

1) Cruyff was more genial but more disolute and irregular and with less identification for its colours.

2) Skilled Negroes lack the tactical intelligence that Don Alfredo mastered for decades. Even today, national teams like Cameroon or Nigeria are marred by a lack of collective intelligence very evident at their midfield game.

3) Maradona is not a true sportman but mainly a cocaine addict.

**perikolez** · 06-20-2011, 10:59 AM

Between players I have seen playing , the highest football level was got by Ronaldo when he was in Barcelona, after being dopated in PSV

. But in my opinion the best player is clearly the actual Lionel Messi.He is only 24, and he still have time to win something with Argentina. Maradona was great in Mexico 86, but he only was succesful in Naples, and failed in Barcelona or Sevilla, and Pele only played in Brasil, and even Garricha was better than him.
Di Estefano was great in Madrid , but was a mercenary playing with spanish natonal team , and failed with Spain.