Best soccer player ever?

[Batu7]

It's one thing that you can't spell his name right, but honestly, have you ever seen Puskás play?

Yeah, I was gonna say that.

[lobishome]

The most talented player ever was George Best, but he couldn't play in a good national team and played few years.

[Slava]

If Georgie Best played in today's world people wouldn't care about Beckham and Ronaldo. The man cared about 3 things cars, women and booze. Sometimes he spared a thought for football.

[sergiio_88]

Where is Di Stefano??

[KING JAMES1978]

Here some quotes from players on who is the Greatest player ever.A lot of different opinions.

"Pele is the greatest player of all time. He reigned supreme for 20 years. All the others - Diego Maradona, Johan Cruyff, Michel Platini - rank beneath him. There's no one to compare with Pele."-Franz Beckenbauer

“For me Zidane is the greatest player of all time,”.-David Beckham

"Maradona is my No.1. A phenomenon. Who cares if he’s Argentinian? "- Roberto Carlos

"Some say Pele was the greatest player of all time, but not me. Maradona will always be the greatest. He won World Cup in 1986, narrowly lost in the final in 1990 and then in 1994 maybe would have won it again had he not been banned. The crucial difference with Pele is that Maradona wasn’t surrounded by great players; he had to carry the team himself. If you took Maradona out of Argentina they would not win the World Cup, but I think Brazil without Pele would still have won"-Eric Cantona.

"This debate about the player of the century is absurd. There's only one possible answer: Pele. He's the greatest player of all time, and by some distance I might add."-Zico

"For me, Ronaldo(Fenomeno) is the greatest. Over the past ten years, he was as Pelé. There was nobody like him. No one has influenced both the football and the players who emerged as Ronaldo. When he stopped, it will be great as Pele."-Zlatan Ibrahimovic

"Maradona is the best player there has ever been, better than Pele. I watched him closely in Italy every week and he was at a different level to everyone else. Some of the things he did were unbelievable. He could control the ball without looking, which meant if the pass was on, he would take it."- Ruud Gullit

And some quotes on Messi who has a chance to be the Greatest.

“We saw the Messi we all know and love. He’s on his way to becoming the best player in history,” - Batista.

"A player like him only comes around once every 50 years. The only reason the rest of us have any chance of winning this year is because the World Cup didn’t turn out too well for Argentina, because if it had, then it (the FIFA Ballon d’Or) would be no contest. In my view, Leo is now even better than [Diego] Maradona was. He’s going to be at the very top for many years to come, there’s nobody like him."-Xavi

"He is unique and everybody is talking about to compare him with Maradona or with Pelé.If he continues to do what he have been doing and he will probably be the greatest player there ever been” - Sir Bobby Charlton

“I think there is only one player you can compare with Messi, and that is Maradona, and in many ways they are very similar
But for some time I have thought that Diego could never be surpassed, and nor could Pele, but no longer.
I would now say that Lionel Messi will go down in history as the No1 player of all time, the best that there ever was.”-Ossie Ardiles

[JAIL BLAZER]

How is Beckenbauer not in this conversation. Clearly at least the best all-rounder in the game.

[cgf]

How is Beckenbauer not in this conversation. Clearly at least the best all-rounder in the game.

Because people see defender next to his name and forget that he would regularly bring the ball up from the back and create chances on offense because of his sublime abilities.