-Andriy Shevchenko- said:He would have been way too fast for them.🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Since his era, players have become 1500 times faster, stronger, and more explosive. Don't try telling me they used to be tougher or more physical back then.
Ever since Pelé, there’s been a massive pile of better, more complete athletes who simply outclass him because they grew up in a much more advanced era. He was treated like a god back in his miserable day just because he was slightly quicker than some sluggish defenders and had an ego the size of a stadium. He was famous, sure, but he was overrated.
As for whether he was actually an athlete? Nobody can honestly claim that.
Look, you're talking nonsense. If you don't know what you're talking about, just stay quiet.
Do you even know who Franco Baresi is? Of course you do. For me, he's easily been the best defender on the planet for the last twenty years, and yet Diego played him like a joke. He was basically dancing around him.
Or look at when he tore through that entire English squad in Mexico—ten different players, and get this, he went from his own goal all the way to theirs, dribbling past the keeper too. That's eleven people. Go find the footage if you don't believe me. Or when half the Belgian team was tasked with marking him during the same tournament; I don't even need specifics, there were constantly at least five guys swarming him, and he still sliced through them like they were training cones.
And yeah, sure, John Doe and John Doe were absolute bruisers, but they weren't real players. John Doe😁—if anyone even remembers him—wasn't it either.
But the only player who truly put Diego in his place was John Doe.
🙏 🙏But hey, even he caught a red card halfway through the match, because let's face it, nobody can man-mark Pelé for a full ninety minutes.
