Football icon Diego Maradona dies at 60 following heart attack

[X]

I've never seen a better dribbler and passer of the ball in my lifetime - and in an era of brutal brutal defending.

The other players who are in the 'who is the greatest' debate - Pele, Messi, Cryuff, di Stefano etc - were all playing with and surrounded by teammates of real quality .... Maradona was the only elite player I have seen who single handedly carried fairly mediocre teams all the way to the very top.

It's a shame, for him, that his personality and lifestyle off the pitch was Mike Tyson-esqu!

[Master]

I've never seen a better dribbler and passer of the ball in my lifetime - and in an era of brutal brutal defending.

The other players who are in the 'who is the greatest' debate - Pele, Messi, Cryuff, di Stefano etc - were all playing with and surrounded by teammates of real quality .... Maradona was the only elite player I have seen who single handedly carried fairly mediocre teams all the way to the very top.

It's a shame, for him, that his personality and lifestyle off the pitch was Mike Tyson-esqu!

The only one close in terms of dribbling, hard tackles and muddy pitches but still great was George Best.

Maradona, past his best, still got Argentina to 1990 final. He was high as a kite for the 1994 world cup, you could tell from the way he ran to the TV camera and celebrated that goal.

Pele would be the only one higher because he was involved in 4 world cups winning 3 of them but he had great players in his team.

[Jambo]

Maradona was the best I’ve ever seen. My Dad used to say Pele, but he played in amazing teams.

[Denilson3.0]

Fate whispers to the warrior, 'You can not withstand the storm.'

The warrior whispers back, 'I am the storm"

Diego was the storm.

Kobe at the start of the year
Diego at the end

Probably the two best to ever do it

[X]

It has been a strange month, hasn't it?

First Peter Sutcliffe and then Diego Maradona - that's two world class attackers gone in two weeks.

[Memphis]

Maradona. Genius with a ball. Sutcliffe. Lethal with a ball peen hammer.

[Dark Lord Al]

A great footballer and Wildman, people don't realise his problem with his weight was caused caused by a unique gland in his body.
Doctors had never seen this before, medically it was unique in a person they named it - The Gland Of God.


R.I.P.

[TitoFan]

Competition and team support notwithstanding, here is a statistical comparison of Maradona vs. Pele.




Still... Maradona was one of the ATG's, alongside the likes of Pele, and current stars Messi and Ronaldo.

[Primo Carnera]

Competition and team support notwithstanding, here is a statistical comparison of Maradona vs. Pele.




Still... Maradona was one of the ATG's, alongside the likes of Pele, and current stars Messi and Ronaldo.

There was a time when I put Pele above Maradona, but I’ve changed over the years. And I don’t think the stats are comparable , simply because Maradona wasn’t really a striker as such. His game was so much more than that.

[Master]

Watched the BBC Lineker documentary filmed 2006 and it was a good watch. I forgot he knocked Italy out of the world cup in 1990 with the penalty. Many hated him for that.

Also forgot the fight he had on the pitch with Barcelona and had to leave to Naples.

Isn't his daughter married to Agüero?