Messi Vs Pele

"I could score headers and kick with both feet, while Messi tends to use his left much more. He also needs to score a thousand goals," Pele told me in London.

'He wasn't like a celebrity'​

Brazilian football journalist Fernando Duarte, speaking to BBC Breakfast:
"He was a very simple man, but a man aware of his role as an ambassador and diplomat for the game.

"He was very careful and very proud of his legacy, but he wasn't like a celebrity.
"You never saw minders around him, he was always very unguarded. That was perhaps something that exposed him sometimes; he would say something out of context and the press would make a meal out of it."

Warnock :

When you look around world football everyone wants to wear the number 10 because of him.

Clive Toye, general manager of New York Cosmos, was instrumental in convincing Pele to play football in the United States.

He told BBC World Service's Sporting Witness programme how he managed to persuade the greatest player in the world to end his career playing "soccer".

"It took four years," he explains. "My strategy was to tell him he was the person who could break through the crust of indifference in the US - nobody else could do it.

"I knew Juventus and Real Madrid wanted him so I said: 'If you go there, you can win a championship, if you come to America, you can win a country.' I liked that line then and I like it now."
“The impact was absolutely immediate,” he explained to BBC World Service’s Sporting Witness programme.

“It was not just in New York where we went from 5,000 a game to 28,000, then moved to the Yankee Stadium and had 48,000 and then the Giants Stadium and were getting 80,000.

“Everyone suddenly wanted to televise the games and on a Tuesday, every school in the area would close to come and see him training. That was the impact he had.

“He changed the whole thing!”

vibesen xxx said:

Messi ni mchezaji bora kuliko wote hata pele mwenyewe

Pele alikuwa bora kwenye ufungaji tu tena mpira wa zamani haukuwa na offside

Messi anavyo vyote

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Pele ana WC Tatu... Na zote alikuwa anatupia.. huyo Messi ndo kwanza anayo moja ... Na yenyewe kachukua through penalty shootout....[emoji38][emoji38][emoji38]

Sporting greats have posted messages on social media to pay their respects to Pele, who died at the age of 82 yesterday.

Argentina captain Lionel Messi posted several photos of the pair on Instagram and wrote: "Rest in peace, Pele."

Tennis great Rafael Nadal posted on Instagram: "Today a world sport great is leaving again. A sad day for the world of football, for the world of sports. His legacy will always be with us.

"I didn't watch him play, I wasn't that lucky, but I was always taught and told that he was the King of football. Rest in Peace! The King!"

World snooker champion Ronnie O'Sullivan said: "A footballing legend but most of all what a man. Genuinely a lovely person I was honoured to meet. Remember, everything you see now in football, Pele did it first! RIP."

Henry Winter
There will be so many tributes for what a magnificent footballer he was on the field. But he will also be remembered for what he did off the field. For poor children in Brazil, for kids with cancer working as an ambassador for Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. And those stories will echo around the world.

Pele didn't just belong to Brazil. He belonged to the world, to so many countries, to sport, to football, to anyone who loved self-expression in a sporting setting that he did so brilliantly.

Tim Vickery

Pele was so far ahead of his time. He was a global icon of the game before the game went truly global. The undoubted king of it.

It’s also probably true that the World Cup didn’t quite see him at his best. He was at the peak of his powers in 1962 when he got injured in the second game.

He said the greatest game of his career was later that year when the champions of South America, Santos, played the champions of Europe, Benfica. The first leg in Brazil was 3-2 to Santos and Benfica were favourites for the second. Pele ran riot and put them 5-0 up in against a fantastic opponent.

He was like someone from a different species - the most perfect football machine there has ever been.

If I had to choose one player in the history of the game to play for my life, it would be Pele.

A sporting icon who made football beautiful​

Bobby Charlton said that football might have been "invented for him".
Certainly, most commentators regard him as the finest exponent of the beautiful game.
Pele's skill and electrifying speed were coupled with a deadly accuracy in front of goal.
A national hero in his native Brazil, he became a global sporting icon.
And, off the field, he campaigned tirelessly to improve conditions for the most deprived people in society.

Buenos Aires said:

Messi ndie the G.O.A.T

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Everything you see any player do pele did it First.

'The reason so many of us love football'​

Wales captain Gareth Bale posted this message on Twitter following the death of Brazil legend Pele at the age of 82...

Costa Pereira.

In 1962, there was a famous win against European champions Benfica.
Pele's hat-trick in Lisbon sank the Portuguese side and earned the respect of their goalkeeper Costa Pereira.

"I arrived hoping to stop a great man," he said. "But I went away convinced I had been undone by someone who was not born on the same planet as the rest of us."

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Ndio ule msemo old is gold, ni maneno ya vijiweni..kwa mwanamichezo na anaejua mpira hawezi kuamini hichi


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2 Diego

Pele akasome, na uzuri statistics zinaonyesha

Kapumpuli said:

Pele ana WC Tatu... Na zote alikuwa anatupia.. huyo Messi ndo kwanza anayo moja ... Na yenyewe kachukua through penalty shootout....[emoji38][emoji38][emoji38]

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Maneno ya mkosaji, hata mchanga ni mwingi zaidi ya almasi lakini almasi ina thamani kubwa.. so, Messi and Diego ni zaidi ya Pele..

Buenos Aires said:

Ndio ule msemo old is gold, ni maneno ya vijiweni..kwa mwanamichezo na anaejua mpira hawezi kuamini hichi


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2 Diego

Pele akasome, na uzuri statistics zinaonyesha

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The great Hungarian striker Ferenc Puskas refused even to classify Pele as merely a player. "Pele was above that," he said.

But it was Nelson Mandela who probably best summed up what made Pele such a star.
"To watch him play was to watch the delight of a child combined with the extraordinary grace of a man."

Garly Linekar

Unquestionably he is one of the greatest football players that ever lived. He could do everything.

For me, it's difficult to separate Pele, Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi. All of them do things mere mortals cannot.

He was also hugely significant in the development and enjoyment of football, which is the most important thing, and was one of football's great entertainers through pure skill, talent and ability.

The name Pele is synonymous with football.

Pele alikua na mpira wa kawaida sana hizo WC 3 ya 2 alikua majeraha garincha akiwa kwenye ubora wake wanachukua ndoo. Pele ana mpira wa kawaida labda ndugu zetu mna clip zingine nje na za youtube mtupe tuone.

Mara 10 Maradona alikua na mpira mzuri ila pele alikua wa kawaida tu.

1. Messi
2. Maradona
3. C Ronaldo
4. Pele

Herbert Nkuluzi said:

Naunga mkono hoja

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Bora huo mkono ungeutumia kuunga mboga

Former England captain Alan Mullery says Pele inspired him to become a better footballer and revealed his unusual tactic to try and stop the Brazilian superstar in a 1967 friendly match.

"Alf Ramsey asked me to follow him everywhere to try and stop him, to be in his shorts," Mullery told BBC Radio 5 Live's Football Daily podcast. "It was 0-0 at half-time and I followed him into the dressing room at half-time!

"He asked me what I was doing and then Alf asked why I was late!

"That was how Pele was, he had a lovely attitude to people. Nobody could copy him and he scored goals for fun. I have never seen a better player in all my years following football."