The debate on whether Pele or Maradona is the best footballer in the world has always been heated in the world of football. The fan debate often led to a war of words between the two.
The question of whether Pele or Maradona is smarter in world football is still unanswered. Small passes and big moves made Pele a football wizard. Argentina’s god-man is a player who was good at scoring goals by hitting the ball from one corner of the field to the other. Pele fans said that there is no comparison between Pele who won the World Cup three times and Maradona who won the World Cup once. But the other side argued that it was Maradona who single-handedly changed the course of the game.
Pele scored 12 goals from 14 matches in World Cup football and Maradona scored eight goals from 21 matches. At the height of the debate, an online poll was conducted in 2000 to determine who was the best footballer. Maradona became the winner. But when the other side took the position that those who took part in the vote did not see Pele’s game and did not accept this election, the vote was conducted again through FIFA magazine. Pele won this. But FIFA announced that both are good enough to end the dispute. But Maradona boycotted the FIFA award ceremony saying that he is from Cayman.
Maradona will be a good player. But he doesn’t know how to bowl with his right foot. Another controversy was sparked by Pele’s claim that a header in an important game was handballed. Pele would have won World Cups. But Maradona replied that he did not know what lay beyond South America in club football. Maradona once even said that Pele was responsible for the death of Brazilian star Garincha. Pele replied that he was mad. Once during a friendly football match in Paris, the two held hands and became a spectacle of the football world.