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Originally Posted by denphone
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Both him and Ronaldo are the two greatest players to ever play the game.
Pele scored about 600 competitive goals in Brazil, less than half of what he's claiming, noting he for whatever reason decided to add the other 600 goals from non competitive football (Wish I could do that, I've scored quite a few in 5-Aside)
International wise, you can yell Pele but he had the greatest Brazillian team of all time around him. Note that Ronaldo & Messi's International teams whilst good are both somewhat off the mark. It's like blasting Zlatan Ibrahimovic for being Swedish.
Both Messi and Ronaldo are faster, more accurate, more skillful and just all round better players than Pele.
Maybe it is unfair to compare them and judge like this giving the Era's of all these great players and because the likes of Pele never got a chance in today's game but it's simply the way it is. In 20 years there will likely be another bunch of players twice as good as Messi.