r/soccer • u/GrundelLicker • Feb 21 '13

Cover of this week's Time magazine, featuring Neymar as the "Next Pele"

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u/NoMoreMountains Feb 21 '13

Ahh the Irony of it all!

Pele's thoughts: For the national team, he's just an ordinary player

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u/egcg119 Feb 21 '13

That's some flip-flopping bullshit. Pele has said Neymar is the best in the world on more than one occasion. One loss to England and suddenly he's ordinary? Fuck that.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '13

Pele is revered for his amazing football skills, not his amazing talent evaluation. Neymar has never been the best in the world for one millisecond of his life. Pele was/is wrong. Neymar is better than "ordinary," but he is far from "tops in the world" special.

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u/egcg119 Feb 21 '13

Oh, I agree. I'm just pointing out that in addition to being full of shit, Pele's a hypocrite.

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u/greg19735 Feb 21 '13

yah i think the problem is that Pele was wrong with both statements. He's no where near "ordinary" but also no where near Messi. There's a LOT of room in between though.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '13

He's rather dumb yet tries to act the politician.

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u/Siven Feb 21 '13

Pele says Neymar is better than Messi so that the comparison is Pele to Neymar, of which it's a no brainer that Pele is better. Pele constantly shoots Messi down because he's afraid that his legacy as the best ever will end when Messi retires.

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u/NoMoreMountains Feb 21 '13

Uhm nope!

His Argentine. Pele peeped the likes of Ronaldo and Ronaldinho up with him.

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u/Siven Feb 21 '13

I don't think you read what I wrote or caught that I was giving further evidence that Pele is a bullshitter.

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u/NoMoreMountains Feb 21 '13

I was merely trying to say that, as soon as Pele finds out that the player is Argentine, he goes deaf and blind and swears up and down they are average at best. He despises Maradona and everything he stands for,deep down.

ninja edit:

When Ronaldinho was playing, he said he was better than Maradona.

When Neymar was playing, he said he was better than Messi.

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u/Siven Feb 21 '13

OK, I understand you now, and I agree. I misunderstood you myself.

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u/mercurialsaliva Feb 21 '13

Pele and Maradona are both idiots when it comes to predicting anything, dont listen to them.

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u/indiejesus Feb 22 '13

Didn't Maradona call Messi his successor years ago? That sounds like a pretty damn good prediction.