France Football: Messi vs. Pelé, Who is the Greatest of All Time?

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Messi bigger than Pele?

For almost fifty years apart, Pele and Messi stacked goals and often crushed the competition. Hence the idea of ??comparing this Wednesday in France Football, the two superstars.

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Compare two athletes from two different eras is a favorite assumptions of the modern world. It is also one of the most illusory. Take Pele and Leo Messi, our topic of discussion in the France Football dated Wednesday, June 3 The gap between the beginning of one of those and the other is more or less half a century: 1956 for the King, 2004 for the chip. Since then, the physical, physiological, game speed, tactical changes, those rules also have transformed football, its culture, its modes.
Level charisma, no possible match
Why would you want to compare two legends whose only common, apart from the small size, is the genius? Do we do with politicians, say Blum Hollande? With talented musicians, genre Mozart and Louis Armstrong? With popular singers, sculptors, film actors? Cloclo was it more prominent than Bruel? Gabin more moving than Lindon? Sport in general and football in particular, is unique in that it is quantifiable. The personal performance is encrypted when the other artists is only in terms of their audience or sales of their albums. Although an advocate of yesterday will never resemble its modern successor, the goal remains a goal in popular imagery. And Messi, Pele, has scored memorable.
Yet it is an area where the parallel may make sense. It is in the human and the charisma. I personally interviewed Pelé twice. I also talked with Messi and even walked the marbles from his home in the suburbs of Barcelona, ??on hills in a remote frame that correspond to him. See and hear Pele will always remain a special moment. Beyond his talent on a lawn, which I enjoyed during my early childhood, particularly during the 1970 World Cup, Pele exudes generosity, benevolence, ecumenism. There is in him something that is mystical, and it is probably no coincidence that he often invokes in his speeches, and love God, as he did one evening in October 1977 at the micro the New York Giants Stadium to bid farewell to the competition.
The light against the taciturn
Unlike Messi, Pele far beyond his sport. It is a myth, a legend, allegory comparable to that of Mohamed Ali. His goals, many (1281), do not have the mark of fitness. They bear the scars of a childhood scarred by a sports drama, ie the defeat of Brazil in the World Cup final in 1950, in its Maracana stadium.

Last year, when I saw Pelé in Zurich as part of his Golden Ball of honor, he told me how to see his father cry on this occasion had marked him forever. And he had promised, in that moment, to bring one day the World Cup in Brazil. For his father.

Messi never admit no such thing. First, because it has never won any title, it was continental, with Argentina A. Then because Argentina is a taciturn, introverted, who was his feelings, moods . When Pelé is a spot light on its own, Messi looks like the pilot of a child's room. The light, in contrast to that of the King, never springs than her feet ...