Comments on: Great And…Not Great – Pele

By: Great And…Not Great – Eric Cantona

Great And…Not Great – Eric Cantona — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:24:11 +0000

[...] Eric’s strongest trait was an acute awareness of the opposing goalkeeper. Unlike Best or Pele, Cantona rarely daringly dribbled into a bee’s hive, but his calculated chips from distance [...]

By: Great And…Not Great – Alfredo Di Stefano

Great And…Not Great – Alfredo Di Stefano — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:23:13 +0000

[...] I was a better player than Pelé, but I can say without any doubt that di Stéfano was better than Pelé.” I place Pele and Diego above Di Stefano, but he and George Best occupy a second pedestal [...]

By: Great And…Not Great – George Best

Great And…Not Great – George Best — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:04:29 +0000

[...] trove for all futfanaticos, a chest unfortunately kept under lock and key in comparison with other [...]

By: Great And…Not Great – Maradona

Great And…Not Great – Maradona — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:17:50 +0000

[...] el pibe diez, Dieguito, the undisputed greatest footballer of all time…from Argentina. I once again refrain from wading into the Diego-Pele debate, but whom did I write about first? Hint. But now [...]

By: Elliott

Elliott — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:41:17 +0000

Penultimate pass, pre-assist, the important thing is that I totally blew it…Pele actually had the assist to the onrushing rightback. Whoops.

And yes Pele did a great job of bringing glamour and glizz to the NASL and the NY Cosmos, but aren´t viagra commercials much more interesting?

By: Red Ranter

Red Ranter — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:33:13 +0000

Penultimate pass, eh? That would make it the pre-assist, as some would call it.

You should touch upon the role he played Stateside. For a while people had heard of Pele, but they hadn’t heard of soccer.