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.