22 Reasons Why PELE is The Greatest Footballer ever !

Pele is the King of Soccer!
I'm taking you on a journey of "22 reasons why PELE is the greatest footballer of all times" With the 2014 World cup a few days away,the world holds its breath and wonders if there will be a magical force that takes over the World Cup the way Maradona single handedly won the world cup for Argentina in 1986,the way Ronaldo won it for Brazil in 2002,the way Paolo Rossi came from nowhere to win it for Italy in 1982 and the way Gerd Muller stole the show for Germany in 1974.

There has always been heated discussions amongst fans about who was or is the best footballer of all times..for a long time it was undisputedly Pele,till Maradona came along..then Messi came along,and then Cristiano Ronaldo..personally for me i think as an all round player,as well as longevity,and the way the game was played back in the days with no protection for players,Pele was and is the best of all times! Messi,Ronaldo,Cryuff,George Best,Di Stefano,Zico,Platini,Puskas are all great players and come veery close..but i think Pele just shades it.

There are 22 players on a football field in a match,so i am giving you 22 reasons why Pele was and is the greatest football or soccer player ever!
Below are some of the most influential players ever to play the game and they have all agreed on one thing as well as giving their reasons why they think Pele is the best of all times!

Happy reading...after the cut

Pele has been married 3 times.First wife was  Rosemeri dos Reis Cholbi  1966-1978 ,2nd wife was Assíria Nascimento 1994-2008 ,who was a dancer and the last and current wife who is a business woman,is  Marcia Aoki 2016-.

 Assíria Nascimento 2nd wife.

Rosemeri dos Reis Cholbi 1st wife.

Marcia Aoki ,last wife.

- Johan Cruyff: "Pele was the only footballer who surpassed the boundaries of logic."

- Bobby Moore: "Pele was the most complete player I've ever seen, he had everything. Two good feet. Magic in the air. Quick. Powerful. Could beat people with skill. Could outrun people. Only 5ft 8in tall, yet he seemed a giant of an athlete on the pitch. Perfect balance and impossible vision. He was the greatest because he could do anything and everything on a football pitch. I remember Saldhana the coach being asked by a Brazilian journalist who was the best goalkeeper in his squad. He said Pele. The man could play in any position."

- Ferenc Puskas: "The greatest player in history was Di Stefano. I refuse to classify Pele as a player. He was above that."

-Sir Alex Ferguson: "Question: Best player you ever saw? -AF: Pelé, di Stefano, Maradona, Cruyff. -Q:In that order? -AF: Yes, I think so."

-Romario: "Messi has all the conditions to be the best, but first he has to beat Maradona, Romario and then eventually Pele."
-Romario "I was never one for idols. That said, I'm a good Brazilian and so it's only inevitable I look up to Pele. He's like a God to us - well, he is to me anyway. I think instead of calling the game football, we should call it Pele.

-Costa Pereira: "I arrived hoping to stop a great man, but I went away convinced I had been

undone by someone who was not born on the same planet as the rest of us."

And for those who thought all he did was score goals..just check out this video

-Michel Platini: "There's Pele the man, and then Pele the player. And to play like Pele is to play like God."

-Alfredo Di Stefano: "The best player ever? Pele. Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are both great players with specific qualities, but Pele was better."

-Sir Bobby Charlton: "I sometimes feel as though football was invented for this magical player."

-Tostao: "Pele was the greatest -- he was simply flawless. And off the pitch he is always smiling and upbeat. You never see him bad-tempered. He loves being Pele."

King of Soccer-Pele!

-Zico: "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."

-Franz Beckenbauer: "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." -

-Tarcisio Burgnich: "Before the match, I told myself that Pele was just flesh and bones like the rest of us. Later I realised I'd been wrong."

-Cesar Luis Menotti: "The best of all was Pele, who is a mixture of Di Stefano, Maradona, Cruyff and Leo Messi."

-Cesar Luis Menotti: "It's ugly to compare but the greatest was Pele. If we believe that God made ​​man, the "black" Pelé he made him perfect. He gave him everything. He lacked nothing, header, physical power, dribbling, finishing, inspiration, genius, temper, vision, goal. Everything."¨

Pele after winning the world cup with Brazil.

-Gianni Rivera: "However, I do think there's someone who was even better(than Messi) and that's Pele. He used both feet on the pitch. He was as dangerous with his right as he was with his left. He was strong in the air as well, and created a lot of chances."

-Hugo Gatti: "Pelé had the skin of a player, head, pace, everything. He was a panther dressed in white, I played with him. He entered to play in the last minute and he could turn the match. And the big difference is that Pelé on the field created fear, Maradona not...For me, it is Pelé, Alfredo Di Stefano and Maradona, in that order. I appreciate Diego, he is a great player. But from another planet was Pelé, not him."

-Teófilo Cubillas: "I confronted him several times on the pitch and I think there will be noone like him."

-Mario Zagallo: "Pele represented everything in soccer because of what he has done on the pitch."

-Cristiano Ronaldo: "Pele is the greatest player in football history, and there would only be one Pele in the world."

Pele the greatest player ever!

-Maradona "It's too bad we never got along, but he was an awesome player. That said, I must repeat that I don't like to compare myself to him."