The King of Soccer

Time has led to the emergence of several other great soccer players in addition to the legendry Pele and George Best. But who is it that is hailed as the best football player in the world?

If we start with Pele, he is definitely a great inspiration to many soccer fans. Everyone wants to be like Pele. His records of more than 1200 goals has not been easy to beat. Then are other legendry soccer players such as Diego Maradona. This Argentinean player is no doubt a star that left many people astounded by his onfield performance. He also began his career at a young age and is equally a great inspiration for soccer fans.

Next is David Beckham, the media magnet. He has combined his looks and talent to be one of the most expensive sportsmen of the century. Some of the things that all the above players share in common are hard work, patience, dedicated training, and discipline. They also had to go to the field in the right frame of mind, and maintain a positive attitude.

Despite these shared traits, Pele stands out as different and therefore still deserves to be called the number one player in the world of soccer. He was extremely talented and skilled at soccer. Even when his team were facing defeat, he did not give up. Pele to date has retained his disciplined life and it is he who is considered to be the greatest football player of all time.

Maradona and Guardiola

Rarely do the club managers meet to discuss their players, not that there is anything wrong with such a meeting. But is surely more than a visit when Diego Maradona, the national team manager of Argentina meets with Pep Guardiola, the coach of Barcelona.  Later, it was reported that the discussions were about protecting Messi from injuries at the crucial time of the World Cup qualifiers. The two managers took note of the fact that Barca was launching an onslaught in the next season including playing a number of friendly matches in preparation. It is also feared that a good player such as Messi may be injured in such friendly matches and miss out on the real World Cup matches.

Therefore after watching the Barca players train, Diego had a private meeting with Guardiola and Messsi. This meeting was different from other club agreements with AFA in the past. It was agreed that Messi be limited in his participation in the international friendly. This is a problem that Maradona understands all too well given that he himself once played for Barca.

Quite often, the players return from such friendly matches tired and possibly injured.  This was actually what was behind the meeting between Maradona and Guardiola. This agreement may guarantee Messi an opportunity to leave a good record in Barca just as was the case with Maradona who played for the same team.  Messi needs to continue in the same steps and leave an impressive record in Barca.