Some people here think this guy wouldn't have the fitness required to play nowadays

>some people here think this guy wouldn't have the fitness required to play nowadays
Are they crazy?

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nobody gives a shit, monkey eater

Why did you reply?

that's because they are idiotically talking about taking 1950s Pele and dropping him into the middle of today's game, instead of imagining if Pele grew up and developed with the current training and fitness regimens of our era's athletes

They're dumb.

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>wearing a hat during the game
based Wakabayashi

Kek. You could be elite while smoking and drinking all day back then. What makes you think Pele has the work ethic to train like people do today>

>While other kids were running around the playground, Pelé was working on his craft. By the time he was 14, he was already participating in major tournaments and would turn pro just a year later.

By 17 he was scoring in World cup finals

>Athletes didn't train back then
Maybe in Australia, but we've had training equipment and sciences for a while in the developed world.

Huebro, you are trying to argue with kids.
Personally, Maradona is the GOAT. But thats just my bias. Pelé, is obviously the greatest player ever.
If Pelé were to reappear, he would be literally unstoppable. He was superbly technically and he was tough as all hell. He played in southamerica, against the toughest defenders of all time. Playing blow for blow against literal murderers. I remember copalib matches against mu side, Peñarol, in wich he traded blows against one of the most vicious players like Sasia, a player famously notorious because he liked to fight more than anything.
Also, 1970s semifinal. That was a slaughter, and Pelé was never intimidated.

Are you retarded? That's not what I said

>You could be elite while smoking and drinking all day back then.
Really gonna need a source on that.

Read biographies of any sports star from back then and pretty much all of them were like that.

Cruyff

If they did all that and still drank and smoked, all credit to them.
It's better to be a normal person and excel at something than to be a fucking monk.

Nacka Skoglund

During his whole life, Skoglund suffered from severe alcoholism.[14] In Italy, "Nacka" also developed a pill abuse.[14] Even before his arrival in Milan, the club's board had started raising questions about his lifestyle, and his quick rise to stardom appeared to exacerbate the problem. Skoglund reportedly began to keep a bottle of whisky in his locker at Internazionale to ensure he could drink during the day.[5] Francesco Morini, his teammate at Sampdoria, also discovered that Skoglund kept a small bottle of whisky by the corner flag. When "Nacka" took a corner he would, according to Morini, kneel down as though tying his shoelace and have a drink.[5]

>in every picture he's using another player for support
>dude so fit lmao

Prosinecki smoked 40 a day.

Socrates smoked a pack a day. Garincha literally died of scirosis

*gets carried to a WC title as a minor player by an absolutely dominant Brazil team*
*rides the bench and takes credit for a WC title won by Garrincha*
*gets knocked out in group stage when Brazil counts on him to be their best player*
*beats up on literal malnourished favelaniggers for 20 years on the club level*
*rests up for NT games while other stars have to prove themselves weekly in elite European leagues*


hehhh...nothing personnel, Diego

That's a foul

Dobrin was really a friend of alcohol.

What the fuck are you on nigger? players still smoke and drink today, even elite ones?

>What makes you think Pele has the work ethic to train like people do today
because he would have grown up with that mindset like most of today's other professionals, you stupid ass

he scored 6 goals in the first WC including the sole goal in the quarter-finals that made us win.

Our leagues were better when he was playing. You even said yourself that the Brazil team was dominant. Where did they play? Look at pic related.

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meant it for the hungarian hater here

just watch a game from the 70s and 80s, it's obvious

Socrates would chain smoke as many cigarettes as possible during halftime, even at the world cup