The world champion coach with the Argentine National Team assured that Pelé is one step above everyone. “He surpasses all ages, from my point of view,” he stated.
César Luis Menotti, historical world champion coach with the Argentine National Team in 1978, was surprised when he was asked who was the best player in the history of football: chose Pelé over Diego Armando Maradona or Lionel Messi.
“Pelé is the best of all, it was supernatural, it was impossible”, launched, without filter, the current Director General of Selections of the AFA. And he added: “Any match for Pelé was the world final. You played a training session and it was the world final.”
Menotti shared a squad with Pelé at Santos, in 1968. “For me it was a pleasure to be on a pitch and see him. He did things that one didn’t understand. He liked to play goalkeeper and not use his hands, he took them out of Chilean, popcorn “, he stated in an interview in DSport Radio.
“Personally I can’t put it in any comparison because it is far from everyone, absolutely far,” Skinny said. And he sentenced: “Then, I think, that each one in his time. The skinny Cruyff, Di Stefano, Maradona, MesYes. But Pele surpasses all eras from my point of view.”
Menotti and the role of Riquelme as manager of Boca
“Football needs prepared leaders. You don’t have to think that because you hit the ball well you have to be a good leader”, Menotti stated in the first instance in dialogue as the program How’s it going?.
Then, when expressing himself about the hot internal institutional conflict that Boca is experiencing after Hugo Ibarra’s decision to remove Carlos Izquierdoz from the starting eleven, which caused the rest of the team to stand up in front of the Football Council, El Flaco was forceful with the vice-president of the Ribera entity: “I didn’t imagine Riquelme in the role of manager. As he learned to be a footballer, he will have to learn to be a manager”.
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