who is the best soccer player of all time and who did he play for?
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Geroge Hagi from team Romania.  This guy was AWESOME!  When the World Cup came to America in '94, he tore it up out there!  I went to a World Cup game and saw Romania play, and it was GREAT!  Chances are, those who say Pele, are saying him because that's the only soccer person they actually know.  I'm not saying Pele is bad at all....he's great.  I just think Hagi really played the sport in no other way than anyone else.
1028099
Pele` without a doubt was THE BEST. Following hin very, very far one from Eusebio - George Best - Sivori: it only depends from personal opinion.
1011788
Pele was possibly the best soccer player ever.  When someone refers to a "White Pele" they are referring to a phenomenal white soccer player.
562499
Maradona, plain and simple.  He really made a difference on the teams he pleyed on.  he made Napoli Italian League champ, after him, they have floundered.  In 1986, he almost single- handedly got Argentina to the World Cup championship.  His two goals against England in that World Cup are memorable.  The first one because of his savvy at using his hand and fooling the referee and the second one because of his mastery to get past so many players.\nComparable, his teammates were weaker than say Pele's or Beckenbauer's or today's Ronaldo's and Ronaldinho's when they achieved their highest points.
539046
everyone says pele but the people who know football they know its diego. Pele never played outside the americas Maradona done it in the hardest leagues in the world Italy and Spain. Pele was in a team full of brilliant players. Maradona was in a team of average players. Maradona won the world cup by himself.  And in the 2 seasons he was at Napoli they won the italian league those two years the only time in their history.
434136
Pele. He is being regarded as the Legend in football/soccer game. You can't complete the history of football without mentioning his name. He is all time hero.
606448
He is the best of the current players. For mine, Pele is probably the best ever. Pele is often considered the complete midfield and attacking player, he was completely two-footed, a clinical finisher, exceptionally skilled at dribbling and passing, and a remarkably good tackler for a forward. He was famed for his speed and kicking strength and scored 1,281 goals over the course of his career. Along with Maradona, he was FIFA player of the century but Pele was the better sportsman for mine.
319660
Ronaldhino who plays for Brazil and currently for the Barcelona club in Spain is the best player in the world
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pele was one of the greatest football players of all time. to find his like you would need to look at the entire history of the sport and bring in players like puskas, stanley matthews, or alec james.\n\nmaradonna wasn't a football player at all. he was just a cheat.
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It is Franz Beckenbauer. I wonder what's going on with him at this moment. I saw him playing with with his arm tied by bandages to his body after breaking his collar bone because he refused to be taken out of the game in the finals during the world championship of 1974 (correct me if I'm wrong).\nThose were the days of good soccer!\nHail to him.
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Santos, then Cosmos of NY. He never played for another country. Only his native country of Brasil.
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Pele (Edson Arantes do Nascimento)\nBrazil\nYears Played: 1956 - 1977\n\nWhy he's one of the greatest: At the age of 17, Pel scored six goals in the 1958 World Cup, inspiring Brazil to its first title.\n\nThroughout his illustrious career both on and off the pitch, Pele has remained a true ambassador of the game. Making his club debut for Santos at the age of 15 in 1956, he remained with the club until 1974. Although facts and figures could never do justice to the majesty that was Pele, his 1,281 goals in all competitions certainly serve to prove the point. He helped lead Santos to nine State Championships, and claimed two consecutive World Club Championships in 1962 and 1963.\n\nThere is no player who can claim greater success on the world stage. Pele made his international debut at the tender age of 16. A year later and his teammates pressured the national coaching staff to include the 17-year-old in the 1958 World Cup squad. Kept out of the majority of the tournament due to injury, Pele came on in Brazil's pool match against the Soviet Union. In the quarterfinals, Pele scored the winner against Wales, a hat trick in the semifinals against France, and two in the final against Sweden, Brazil won the 1958 World Cup... and a star was born. Out with injury for the 1962 World Cup, Pele returned to the national squad and claimed one more World Cup title in 1970. Voted the Century's Greatest Footballer along with Diego Maradona, Pele has continued to be an inspiration to the "the beautiful game."
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Best: Ronaldinho... as he goes for beatiful game\n\nsecond best: Lampard, Pirlo, Gerrard, 30 something yrs ols Zizou
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(FIFA.com) 19 Dec 2005\n\nBest soccer player in the world is Ronaldinho!\n\nBrazil's Ronaldinho dedicated his second consecutive FIFA Player of the Year to, "his team mates, his family and God" at tonight's prize ceremony at Zurich Opera House while the two players who had been shortlisted for the first time, Frank Lampard and Samuel Eto'o, were both gracious in defeat - considering it almost a victory to lose to the Barcelona-based magician. \nRonaldinho:\nI would like to dedicate this award to all my team mates at my club, my family - who have always stuck by me during the difficult times and to God for given me the health to do what I enjoy doing which is playing football. Any one of us could have won the award, it's a dream come true for all of us.\n\nAfter winning this award I want to help my team by producing my best form. I want to go on helping my team mates and be worthy of representing the team. I'm getting ready for the World Cup - I want to go back to Brazil with another title.\n\nI'm the happiest man on earth - I play for a great team, I have lots of friends, people appreciate the way I play, they appreciate my club and I want to continue to give happiness.
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Goerge Hagi, probably. He was insane;y good, and he played for huge clubs like Real Madrid, Barcelona Galatasary. Also he had a wicked freekick.
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Pele was the one.\nafter him Ronaldinho, them Maradona and who the hell was Wayne Rooney?
388367
was...Ronaldhino Gaúcho!!! Great Brazilian soccer player.