We showed 1978 FIFA World Cup Champion Mario Kempes five pictures and asked him to tell us what he thinks of the images. See yourself what the former Argentinian striker told us.
This is all you need to know about "El Matador", Mario Kempes: In THE most important match of his country's futbol history--again, in a time before Maradona and decades before Messi, when Argentina took a huge backseat to Brazil in regards to South American futbol--Kempes scored twice against perhaps the greatest World Cup runner-up team, including the game-winner, and assisted on the final goal to secure the 1978 World cup.
Mario Kempes had such a graceful running style with the ball, but he was deceptively fast and had a powerful shot. He used to scatter everybody, ride over desperate challenges ready to launch a rocket towards goal, a very underrated maestro of the old school.
Amazing interview, amazing player and mos important, amazing person. LOve from Brazil.. triste pela eliminação...sem chiste...abraço do hermano de sulamerica. estamos juntos.
Maradona didn't play with an average team in 1986, He played with below the average team in 1986 and the only World Cup in the history which won by a Player not a team, In 1990 we can say Argentina had an average team & in 1994 Argentina had really a squad (BIG team). Napoli was below an average team in Seria A, Napoli was among the relegation teams when Maradona joined, Maradona took them to 1st place on his own, Careca, Alemao etc. joined the Champion Napoli not the relegation threatened Napoli, they joined in good times and was part of later glories UEFA Cup, Scudetto not the first Napoli glory (from Bottom to Top). You can't comparing Maradona with today's stars (players) because today's "STARS" can't win a LA LIGA with teams like Deportivo or Athletic Bilbao? they need one of the top 3 or 4 rank teams to win a league championship not an middle of bottom standing teams. 1974 Germany 1978 Argentina 1982 Italy 1986 MARADONA 1990 Germany 1994 Brazil
So he won La Liga with the mighty Barcelona with its 17 national players, didnt he? And he won 1982 World Cup playing alongside the greats that won the 1978 cup? Surely, he must won since he was so dominant. By the way, aint no close to relegation teams that go and do record breaking transfers to get the hottest footballer in the world. Napoli was a perennial 2-6 place team in Italy. And Hellas Verona won the scudetto a couple of years before Napoli, without any big name players. Talent was spread around. And sure as hell, aint no Argentinas ever in football history that were "below average". Nice story though
Diego played in the Argentine golden years, 3 WC finals in 12 years including 1990 when he didnt even score once the whole tournament. He also got a straight red vs Brazil in 82. If that was Messi he’d be slated for ‘bottling it’
1:45 "You can't compare them [...] To compare two stars would be a football sin." Thank you! That's why I ignore all these pointless "best player of the ..." celebrations. Who was better, Maradona or Pele? Who is better, Messi or Ronaldo? I don't care. They were/are all great.
How come nobody has ever talked about the best player before Pele's time, Larbi benbarek. A french national player of Moroccan decent. I think the whole world would talk about him now if he was European, or south American!!!
Mario comes across as a top bloke. Incidentally, his complete respect for Diego Maradona is starkly apparent. Notice he says Messi still has areas where he needs to improve. We all know who Argentinians rate as the finest player from their country.
Mario Kempes es esepcional indudablemente. Uno de los jugadores que vistio la comiseta con el mitico 10. Le dio la copa a la Argentina. Pero Maradona siempre sera el simbolo Argentino de futbol que tambien vistio la camiseta con el mitico 10... Jugadores Klasikos.. Esperamos que Messi les de la copa a la Argentina y pueda inmortalisar el mitico 10 de la comiseta Argentina...
Soy de costa rica , esa fue mi seleccion preferida en mi juventud , fillol,pasarella, ardiles, tarantini,luke , etcccc pero el primordial con estilo al correr , riblar con su surda, su melena larga,su bincha en el pie,medias bajas , El matador , mario alberto Kempes , el #10 goleador, ya despues le dejo el 10 al siguiente mostruo , Maradona, saludes pura vida
It seems to me that he didn't say "monster", like when people refers to someone extremely talented as an alien, even though it would fit the meaning. I think he said it the way they do it in Argentina, like a familiar form between friends. I wrote more about it somewhere in this comments section
or Is Kempes referring to Diego not yet as a friend, and not even as some metaphoric superhuman skill, but as a Monster because of something despicable that Diego did? Like drugs, handgoals, or kicking the ambassador's turtle. Diego was a monster, like hitler. Diego was a monster, he had three feet, twenty seven fingers, the tongue where an eye would be, and was angry all the time. (no era para menos)
Little did the maestro know that the little magician who was "yet to prove" himself, too possessed the ability to carry the entire team on his shoulders (like he did that very year). Sadly sometimes your best isn't just enough :)
Many people always said Pele did not play against Europeans. Well, 5-2 against Sweden, 3-1 against Czeckoslovakia and 4-1 against Italy. What more evidence do u want?
Diego Maradona played for an average Argentina team in 1986 and 1990 and took them to back-to-back WC final matches winning the former. He did the same with an average side like Napoli in Serie A - the strongest league at that time - against the star-studded line-ups of AC Milan, Inter and Juventus as well as several other serious challengers uncluding Roma, Sampdoria, Fiorentina, Lazio and Parma. Messi has already proved that he is inferior to Maradona and he is a champion playing for great sides only.
Look man, talk like this is for children that didnt watch football back then. I dont know if Messi is inferior to Maradona, but Napoli was not an average side. They had great players all around, and another two world stars in Careca and Alemao. A team like that was not a surprise to win the title a couple of times. Hellas Verona winning the title in 1985 was a surprise. Milinco Pantic led Atletico Madrid winning La Liga was a surprise. Leicester winning Premier League was a surprise. And if you wanna turn the argument completely around, Maradonas' stint with a 17 national players Barcelona team was not a success. Plus he never won the european champions cup, but things like that happen. In 1990 it wasnt Maradona who took Argentina to the Finals, it was a mixture of ref help in group stages (the obvious hand by Maradona against USSR), amazing defensive play, luck against Brazil and Goycochea going mental in consecutive penalty shootouts. Now in 1986 Maradona had a great tournament, but lets not act as if Argentina knocked out monster teams to win the cup. '80s Uruguay, England perrenial underachievers and Belgium were not teams that Argentina would face as the underdog even without Maradona. Two big favorites were Brazil and France, they got to play each other, and then Germany eliminated France. Plus Argentina got to have an extended period of intense training in Mexicos' high altitude and that gave'em an edge against most teams, especially European sides. These are one month tournaments where luck probably plays a 50% role in the outcome. Messi got to the Finals in 2014 up against a team that laid a 7-1 destruction against hosting BRAZIL of all sides. Any other era with less a profound favorite and he could have won a cup himself. Or Argentina getting matched up with Brazil or France in 1986 and who knows if they'd manage to go past them. 1982 mighty Brazil curbstomped Maradona and reigning champs Argentina. Plus, Argentina was not average in 1986, just not spectacular and offensive oriented. Billardo made a deliberate choice of leaving out of the team several offensive players, to have a more compact, discplined and athletic group around Maradona. If you wanna compare these two, true Maradona was a natural leader, a more competitive person overall, and probably a much better classical 10. But Messi is hands down a much better finisher and scorer and more consistent with his performances.
Maradona has skill a little higher than Messi. His leadership is far above Messi and CR7. His hungry for glory with Argentina jersey is slighly higher than CR7 with Portugal and Madrid. Maradona would do everything for Argentina...from kicking someone balls, to use god hand, use drugs, everything. Argentina with Maradona in football field was and still...the most dangerous team to ever existed in history of football ( Maradona was very good with Napoli, but when Argentina call him, he would pick Argentina first and then Napoli ).
He was referring to comparing two players from different eras. He believes one era had Di Stefano, then Pele followed, then Cruyff, then Maradona, then Zidane and Ronaldo and now Messi and CR7.
How would you string togethers an all-time Argentina team? My bid.. Sergio Goycochea - Javier Zanetti, Daniel Passarella, Javier Mascherano, Silvio Marzolini - Lionel Messi, Diego Maradona (C), Fernando Redondo, Angel Di Maria - Mario Kempes, Gabriel Batistuta
It seems to me that he didn't say "monster", like when people refers to someone extremely talented as an alien, even though it would fit the meaning. I think he said it the way they do it in Argentina, like a familiar form between friends. "what's up -friend-?" ===>aprox.===>"qué hacés mostro?" It worth mentioning that in Argentina, when it's used with friendly intentions, it's always accuratley misSpronounced. The word "monstruo" means - friend - if an argentine person enunciates "mostro" instead.
Or is Kempes refering to Diego not yet as a friend, and not even as some metaphoric superhuman skill, but as a Monster because of something despicable that Diego did? Like drugs, handgoals, or kicking the ambassador's turtle.
Maradona was a force of nature, unstoppable only by fouls. Lived and dominated the most brutal era of football with the most fearfull defenders ever. The only reason why I believe Messi is better than him, is that after Maradona's injury, Maradona became from a demigod to mear human. And obviously Messi is better than any human so he is better than Maradona in the long run. But I believe that Maradona before the injury was impossible to reach.
The fact that Pele did not play for a European club does not diminish his accomplishments. It elevates him to being the GOAT. 1. He was only 17 when he won Brazil's first world cup victory on European soil. No other non European team has ever won a world cup on European soil. 2. He won a total of 3 world cup titles in 3 different continents away from home! No other player in history has ever won 3 world cup titles (Ronaldo (R7) came close to doing that). 3. He has a record 14 top scoring titles in the Brazilian league. 4. He lead Santos F.C. to two world club titles, beating the best in Europe, and scoring several hat-tricks in the process. 5. When he retired from the Brazilian national team at the tender age of 29 at the Mexico 1970 world cup, it took Brazil a whopping 24 years to win their next world cup title in USA 1994.
Om 254 dude you are just looking at what's on paper.. I agree that Pele is one of the greatest ever but.. as I've said to many people.. no player, not even Pele could do what he did without a good team around them.. Pele was part of a great Brazil side throughout his career and honestly, it's different players in different eras, so for me he is one of the absolute best to ever do it like some of the other greats that have been.. I do agree however that alongside Messi, Maradona and Ronaldo fenomeno he was one of the most gifted..
Pele once said he is not arguing or getting anger with his fellows and argentinian' friends, of who is the best in football comparing to him. He just simply replied, when someone in Argentina scores 1000 + goals in one club or the sums in all clubs during a player' career, then he ( Pele ) will start to discuss who is the best in football.
batistuta was a great great player but he never lead his team anywhere? I could argue that batistuta had a better team in argentine in the 90's and early 2000's than Maradona had in the 80's yet Maradona took Argentina to two finals and won ane, while batistuta great over all player did very little, maybe he lacked leadership?? who knows, now Messi is another wonder he's taking Argentina back to finals proving he is a great player also he has a wonderful team, honestly very good team, but he cant win if Messi doesn't win a world cup before he retires he wont be remembered amongst the greatest like pele and Maradona, he will be one of the greats in the likes of di Stefano, cryuf, Rossi, Zico, Ronaldo, Zidane, Ronaldinho, etc. very great players legendary players messi and ce7 had done enough to be in this group if they retire, but if they wont take their team to cup title with memorable play throughout after they retire people will still say pele is the greatest and Maradona a contender.
I will chip in an opinion here, hope that OK with you. If Spain manage to win 2018 WC, will Iniesta and S Ramos be alongside the greatest group ? Very difficult to argue against. There had been only roughly 10-12 players who won WC twice in history. These exclusive few had been all Brazilians and Italians. If these two Spain players win 2 WC and 2 Euros, they should be high there.
fromhatyai hard to say because is not just getting a World Cup many good players had gotten a World Cup and don’t belong to this list, and many players on this list are not World Cup winners, their legendary status stems from their individual capacity and leadership. Great players are one thing, legendary players is another thing GOAT is only one which in this case would be Pele, I do respect the talent of the Spanish players though they are great players in this generation they’re not ranking as the world’s greatest those spots are occupied by Messi and CR7 those two are phenomena of this era, as Ronaldo and Zidane were of the past era. But time will only tell. Also charisma plays a good part how much attention they garner to themselves and the sport the hype they created and expectations in peoples hearts. Only the greatest of players reach this standing and if they can add up a World Cup or two to that inarguably the world will remember them as legendary.
My gut feeling is had Brazilian Ronaldo won the final in WC 1998 and/or ZZ had won the final in WC 2006 - each only one step short, then Ronaldo and/or ZZ would have been equal to Maradona and Pele now.
Ronaldo is undeniably one of the best. Messi is chosen cos he's argentinian *DUH*. He has had good times but isn't a legendary player. If Ronaldo was striker he would have more goals.
Brock Lesnar I'm argentinian and Maradona is better in skills and vision, Kempes was a great player but he was just a Big forward. Maradona was born in other context in a fight with england and was a revenge. Sorry for my english
Brock Lesnar is not only that , maradona is most bigger than kempes because still today Maradona is the best player in the all history of football with pele , together their are the eternal discussion about who is the best.
I agree that Ronaldo was the best ever as he's my favorite player of all time but Diego Maradona should get more respect. He's one of the greatest of all time maybe #2, the drugs weren't an issue when he was playing and even if he did it then it didn't matter because on the field he was amazing
So a player is the best ever because is your favorite?? If you can't be objective then you can't speak about football because if that's so, then Kaka should be the best ever because he is my all time favorite player.. He won WC, UCL (being the top scorer) (something that Nazario didn't), a bunch of leagues, cups, won Ballon D'or.. But he didn't make step on or elasticos, so he can't be considered because of that (not even to mentioning that Ronaldo was finished before he was 30 years old.).
I love how he exclaimed : Ah the greatest one ; the phenomenon. Indeed he knows his football.
This is all you need to know about "El Matador", Mario Kempes: In THE most important match of his country's futbol history--again, in a time before Maradona and decades before Messi, when Argentina took a huge backseat to Brazil in regards to South American futbol--Kempes scored twice against perhaps the greatest World Cup runner-up team, including the game-winner, and assisted on the final goal to secure the 1978 World cup.
One of the most honest interviews of all times
Mario is the only Argentine to win 2 world cups. Mores respected too.
@@antoniosilvestro2494 that's passarella not kempes, kempes didn't included in 86 squad
@@yasayasa97 I agree.
Mario Kempes had such a graceful running style with the ball, but he was deceptively fast and had a powerful shot. He used to scatter everybody, ride over desperate challenges ready to launch a rocket towards goal, a very underrated maestro of the old school.
Mario Kempes, un grande del futbol mundial, un senior dentro y fuera de la cancha. Gracias Mario!!!!
Very graceful and insightful
Bravo Mario Kempes 👏👏👏
Kempes was a phenomenon! I saw him with Rosario Central. Without him no Championship on 1978!
The best. Or almost...
Sou brasileiro e considero Mário Alberto Kempes, um dos grandes do futebol mundial. Tem todo meu respeito e admiração.
Don Mario kempes senoron muy querido y in ejemplo a seguir que siga viendo por mucho tiempo
Amazing interview, amazing player and mos important, amazing person. LOve from Brazil.. triste pela eliminação...sem chiste...abraço do hermano de sulamerica. estamos juntos.
Mario Kempes extraordinario ganador y goleador Mundial '78.🏆👏👏👏
El gran Kempes.... que jugador.
Great humble guy, obvious from one interview.👍👍👍
when i see maradona ,i cry ! thank you dieguito for 20 years of magic foot ball!!!!
colotschini agree he was amazing
colotschini hi noiyt?
Maradona didn't play with an average team in 1986, He played with below the average team in 1986 and the only World Cup in the history which won by a Player not a team, In 1990 we can say Argentina had an average team & in 1994 Argentina had really a squad (BIG team).
Napoli was below an average team in Seria A, Napoli was among the relegation teams when Maradona joined, Maradona took them to 1st place on his own, Careca, Alemao etc. joined the Champion Napoli not the relegation threatened Napoli, they joined in good times and was part of later glories UEFA Cup, Scudetto not the first Napoli glory (from Bottom to Top).
You can't comparing Maradona with today's stars (players) because today's "STARS" can't win a LA LIGA with teams like Deportivo or Athletic Bilbao? they need one of the top 3 or 4 rank teams to win a league championship not an middle of bottom standing teams.
1974 Germany
1978 Argentina
1982 Italy
1986 MARADONA
1990 Germany
1994 Brazil
So he won La Liga with the mighty Barcelona with its 17 national players, didnt he? And he won 1982 World Cup playing alongside the greats that won the 1978 cup? Surely, he must won since he was so dominant.
By the way, aint no close to relegation teams that go and do record breaking transfers to get the hottest footballer in the world. Napoli was a perennial 2-6 place team in Italy. And Hellas Verona won the scudetto a couple of years before Napoli, without any big name players. Talent was spread around. And sure as hell, aint no Argentinas ever in football history that were "below average". Nice story though
diego was below par in th 1986 finals...he had teammates that stepped up in big moments barrichuga,
@@ayodejifayemi3453 Who slided the ball in the gap to Burruchaga for being alone with goalkeeper to score the final touch
@@pakistanidirtypolitics7502 true...you are right but his teammates stepped up
Diego played in the Argentine golden years, 3 WC finals in 12 years including 1990 when he didnt even score once the whole tournament. He also got a straight red vs Brazil in 82. If that was Messi he’d be slated for ‘bottling it’
1:45 "You can't compare them [...] To compare two stars would be a football sin."
Thank you! That's why I ignore all these pointless "best player of the ..." celebrations. Who was better, Maradona or Pele? Who is better, Messi or Ronaldo? I don't care. They were/are all great.
Reinecke Fux Totally agree
ReminderMM👩👩👅 Fxxux
But let's face it, Maradonna is better than Pele.
@@TheRadFactor ikr
Mario Kempes también es uno de los mejores del mundo.
he was great forward in his age
Melhor do que o Zico e eu dou brasileiro.
How come nobody has ever talked about the best player before Pele's time, Larbi benbarek. A french national player of Moroccan decent. I think the whole world would talk about him now if he was European, or south American!!!
because he didn’t win 3 world cups…….
Mario Kempes,le ponia esa Energia a Argentina capaz de mover circunstancias Adversas,reivindicaron el futbol argentino para Siempre.
Mario comes across as a top bloke. Incidentally, his complete respect for Diego Maradona is starkly apparent. Notice he says Messi still has areas where he needs to improve. We all know who Argentinians rate as the finest player from their country.
He's talking about Messi's national team merits
Mario Kempes es esepcional indudablemente. Uno de los jugadores que vistio la comiseta con el mitico 10. Le dio la copa a la Argentina. Pero Maradona siempre sera el simbolo Argentino de futbol que tambien vistio la camiseta con el mitico 10... Jugadores Klasikos.. Esperamos que Messi les de la copa a la Argentina y pueda inmortalisar el mitico 10 de la comiseta Argentina...
Que tontos son los argentinos me parece que este señor debería ser la imagen y el verdadero icono del fútbol argentino.
Diego looked up to him..
@Critique Everything yes
el matador he is a true Hero of Argentina football
And a nightmare for every goal keeper what a man what a player Bravo amigo☝️
Y Kempes un super crack poco reconocido!
Never seen someone as handsome as he scoring so much goals😆
Did anyone catch that he wanted to call Pele the King and Diego by his name, then caught himself and called Diego the other King?
Mario what a cool fella 👍❤
¡Que lindo Kempes!
He is all time legend
Brilliant
LEGENDARY MARIO KEMPES!
Soy de costa rica , esa fue mi seleccion preferida en mi juventud , fillol,pasarella, ardiles, tarantini,luke , etcccc pero el primordial con estilo al correr , riblar con su surda, su melena larga,su bincha en el pie,medias bajas , El matador , mario alberto Kempes , el #10 goleador, ya despues le dejo el 10 al siguiente mostruo , Maradona, saludes pura vida
Maradona, Maradona, Maradona.
Kempes the best in 78.w.c.
You call monstruo in Argentina an AWESOME badass...title mislead me to think otherwise, Marito Kempes un crack, un monstruo el tambien.
It seems to me that he didn't say "monster", like when people refers to someone extremely talented as an alien, even though it would fit the meaning.
I think he said it the way they do it in Argentina, like a familiar form between friends.
I wrote more about it somewhere in this comments section
or Is Kempes referring to Diego not yet as a friend, and not even as some metaphoric superhuman skill, but as a Monster because of something despicable that Diego did? Like drugs, handgoals, or kicking the ambassador's turtle.
Diego was a monster, like hitler.
Diego was a monster, he had three feet, twenty seven fingers, the tongue where an eye would be, and was angry all the time. (no era para menos)
Kempes was the player who first put Argentina on the World Cup map. Since then, it has become a World Cup heavy weight.
Kempes était un super joueur.
Il avait fait sombrer le fc Nantes à lui tout seul en 80.
Kempes😀Great😆I💖you
Beauty and talent
Mário Kempes década de 90/00 ganharia 2 bolas de ouro sem dúvida !
Maradona e Zico garrincha maior d todos
Little did the maestro know that the little magician who was "yet to prove" himself, too possessed the ability to carry the entire team on his shoulders (like he did that very year). Sadly sometimes your best isn't just enough :)
I think the players he mentioned in interview were below him but he is very humble person he dowm himself to earth
Many people always said Pele did not play against Europeans. Well, 5-2 against Sweden, 3-1 against Czeckoslovakia and 4-1 against Italy. What more evidence do u want?
Grande Kempes.
Kempes the best in 78.w.c.
El futbolistas que ha jugado el fútbol más elegante de la historia, éste mundial 2018 fué el más incipido de la historia
Respect
Good reviews! Kempes, come to be the coach in Clube Náutico.
Diego Maradona played for an average Argentina team in 1986 and 1990 and took them to back-to-back WC final matches winning the former. He did the same with an average side like Napoli in Serie A - the strongest league at that time - against the star-studded line-ups of AC Milan, Inter and Juventus as well as several other serious challengers uncluding Roma, Sampdoria, Fiorentina, Lazio and Parma. Messi has already proved that he is inferior to Maradona and he is a champion playing for great sides only.
Look man, talk like this is for children that didnt watch football back then. I dont know if Messi is inferior to Maradona, but Napoli was not an average side. They had great players all around, and another two world stars in Careca and Alemao. A team like that was not a surprise to win the title a couple of times. Hellas Verona winning the title in 1985 was a surprise. Milinco Pantic led Atletico Madrid winning La Liga was a surprise. Leicester winning Premier League was a surprise. And if you wanna turn the argument completely around, Maradonas' stint with a 17 national players Barcelona team was not a success. Plus he never won the european champions cup, but things like that happen.
In 1990 it wasnt Maradona who took Argentina to the Finals, it was a mixture of ref help in group stages (the obvious hand by Maradona against USSR), amazing defensive play, luck against Brazil and Goycochea going mental in consecutive penalty shootouts. Now in 1986 Maradona had a great tournament, but lets not act as if Argentina knocked out monster teams to win the cup. '80s Uruguay, England perrenial underachievers and Belgium were not teams that Argentina would face as the underdog even without Maradona. Two big favorites were Brazil and France, they got to play each other, and then Germany eliminated France. Plus Argentina got to have an extended period of intense training in Mexicos' high altitude and that gave'em an edge against most teams, especially European sides. These are one month tournaments where luck probably plays a 50% role in the outcome. Messi got to the Finals in 2014 up against a team that laid a 7-1 destruction against hosting BRAZIL of all sides. Any other era with less a profound favorite and he could have won a cup himself. Or Argentina getting matched up with Brazil or France in 1986 and who knows if they'd manage to go past them. 1982 mighty Brazil curbstomped Maradona and reigning champs Argentina. Plus, Argentina was not average in 1986, just not spectacular and offensive oriented. Billardo made a deliberate choice of leaving out of the team several offensive players, to have a more compact, discplined and athletic group around Maradona.
If you wanna compare these two, true Maradona was a natural leader, a more competitive person overall, and probably a much better classical 10. But Messi is hands down a much better finisher and scorer and more consistent with his performances.
Messi can't win if you put him with Racing Santander
Napoli was at the bottom almost regulated when Maradona joined. Put Messi with a lower team in La Liga and see if he wins the league
Maradona has skill a little higher than Messi. His leadership is far above Messi and CR7. His hungry for glory with Argentina jersey is slighly higher than CR7 with Portugal and Madrid. Maradona would do everything for Argentina...from kicking someone balls, to use god hand, use drugs, everything. Argentina with Maradona in football field was and still...the most dangerous team to ever existed in history of football ( Maradona was very good with Napoli, but when Argentina call him, he would pick Argentina first and then Napoli ).
fearlesslegend @ wow nyc details.. Maradonaa is the best indeed.. wish TV channels and club matches were shown those days..
guys suffered winning it, and somebody still thanks THE US or the Peruviana Side
Os três maiores jogadores que jogaram na Argentina são: Maradona,Messi e kempes.
"To compare to stars is an football sin" Yet we compare Messi & Ronaldo
He was referring to comparing two players from different eras. He believes one era had Di Stefano, then Pele followed, then Cruyff, then Maradona, then Zidane and Ronaldo and now Messi and CR7.
Aziz ... those with a little mind compare...
Cause the play in the SAME ERA. DUUR
Aziz he is talking about different eras.. not two players from the same era..
How would you string togethers an all-time Argentina team?
My bid..
Sergio Goycochea - Javier Zanetti, Daniel Passarella, Javier Mascherano, Silvio Marzolini - Lionel Messi, Diego Maradona (C), Fernando Redondo, Angel Di Maria - Mario Kempes, Gabriel Batistuta
Kempes is the 1st star in argentina 💙💙💙💙⭐
genio
Que opina del Jorge El Magico?
name of the music?
Simple and exact in his answers.. all I can say. I wonder what he would say about Ibrahimović
A true gentleman
MARIO KEMPES EL MATADOR and THE GOD DON DIEGO ARMANDO MARADONA ARGENTINA PRIDE 😎😎😎
It seems to me that he didn't say "monster", like when people refers to someone extremely talented as an alien, even though it would fit the meaning.
I think he said it the way they do it in Argentina, like a familiar form between friends.
"what's up -friend-?" ===>aprox.===>"qué hacés mostro?"
It worth mentioning that in Argentina, when it's used with friendly intentions, it's always accuratley misSpronounced.
The word "monstruo" means - friend - if an argentine person enunciates "mostro" instead.
Or is Kempes refering to Diego not yet as a friend, and not even as some metaphoric superhuman skill, but as a Monster because of something despicable that Diego did? Like drugs, handgoals, or kicking the ambassador's turtle.
Kempes: Diego was a monster, he had three feet, twenty seven fingers, the tongue where an eye would be, and angry.
No es para menos
What about those with mean intentions but a speech impediment?
He serving for ESPN in Spanish
maradona is the legendary classic player,his fine touch of ball is so classy,no one can match maradona.let watch his videos.
pele sigue el numero uno de todos los tiempos y siguen...di stefano y cruiff
And the old version of him ever played with Pelita Jaya...
El matador
fifa world very good
Maradona was a force of nature, unstoppable only by fouls. Lived and dominated the most brutal era of football with the most fearfull defenders ever. The only reason why I believe Messi is better than him, is that after Maradona's injury, Maradona became from a demigod to mear human. And obviously Messi is better than any human so he is better than Maradona in the long run.
But I believe that Maradona before the injury was impossible to reach.
Kempes pelita jaya indonesia
The fact that Pele did not play for a European club does not diminish his accomplishments. It elevates him to being the GOAT.
1. He was only 17 when he won Brazil's first world cup victory on European soil. No other non European team has ever won a world cup on European soil.
2. He won a total of 3 world cup titles in 3 different continents away from home! No other player in history has ever won 3 world cup titles (Ronaldo (R7) came close to doing that).
3. He has a record 14 top scoring titles in the Brazilian league.
4. He lead Santos F.C. to two world club titles, beating the best in Europe, and scoring several hat-tricks in the process.
5. When he retired from the Brazilian national team at the tender age of 29 at the Mexico 1970 world cup, it took Brazil a whopping 24 years to win their next world cup title in USA 1994.
Om 254 dude you are just looking at what's on paper.. I agree that Pele is one of the greatest ever but.. as I've said to many people.. no player, not even Pele could do what he did without a good team around them.. Pele was part of a great Brazil side throughout his career and honestly, it's different players in different eras, so for me he is one of the absolute best to ever do it like some of the other greats that have been..
I do agree however that alongside Messi, Maradona and Ronaldo fenomeno he was one of the most gifted..
Pele once said he is not arguing or getting anger with his fellows and argentinian' friends, of who is the best in football comparing to him. He just simply replied, when someone in Argentina scores 1000 + goals in one club or the sums in all clubs during a player' career, then he ( Pele ) will start to discuss who is the best in football.
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Why no BATISTUTA?
batistuta was a great great player but he never lead his team anywhere? I could argue that batistuta had a better team in argentine in the 90's and early 2000's than Maradona had in the 80's yet Maradona took Argentina to two finals and won ane, while batistuta great over all player did very little, maybe he lacked leadership?? who knows, now Messi is another wonder he's taking Argentina back to finals proving he is a great player also he has a wonderful team, honestly very good team, but he cant win if Messi doesn't win a world cup before he retires he wont be remembered amongst the greatest like pele and Maradona, he will be one of the greats in the likes of di Stefano, cryuf, Rossi, Zico, Ronaldo, Zidane, Ronaldinho, etc. very great players legendary players messi and ce7 had done enough to be in this group if they retire, but if they wont take their team to cup title with memorable play throughout after they retire people will still say pele is the greatest and Maradona a contender.
I will chip in an opinion here, hope that OK with you. If Spain manage to win 2018 WC, will Iniesta and S Ramos be alongside the greatest group ? Very difficult to argue against. There had been only roughly 10-12 players who won WC twice in history. These exclusive few had been all Brazilians and Italians. If these two Spain players win 2 WC and 2 Euros, they should be high there.
fromhatyai hard to say because is not just getting a World Cup many good players had gotten a World Cup and don’t belong to this list, and many players on this list are not World Cup winners, their legendary status stems from their individual capacity and leadership. Great players are one thing, legendary players is another thing GOAT is only one which in this case would be Pele, I do respect the talent of the Spanish players though they are great players in this generation they’re not ranking as the world’s greatest those spots are occupied by Messi and CR7 those two are phenomena of this era, as Ronaldo and Zidane were of the past era. But time will only tell. Also charisma plays a good part how much attention they garner to themselves and the sport the hype they created and expectations in peoples hearts. Only the greatest of players reach this standing and if they can add up a World Cup or two to that inarguably the world will remember them as legendary.
My gut feeling is had Brazilian Ronaldo won the final in WC 1998 and/or ZZ had won the final in WC 2006 - each only one step short, then Ronaldo and/or ZZ would have been equal to Maradona and Pele now.
Batistuta and Ronaldinho
why no ibra?
Ronaldo is undeniably one of the best.
Messi is chosen cos he's argentinian *DUH*. He has had good times but isn't a legendary player. If Ronaldo was striker he would have more goals.
Because he's not at the same level as these players. He would tell you, of course, that, not only is he better, but that he invented football.
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Why is Maradona more popular to Argentinians compared to Kempes? I mean they both won the World Cup right?
Brock Lesnar I'm argentinian and Maradona is better in skills and vision, Kempes was a great player but he was just a Big forward. Maradona was born in other context in a fight with england and was a revenge. Sorry for my english
I see, now I understand. Thanks for your answer. That question has been on my mind since I started watching football
Brock Lesnar is not only that , maradona is most bigger than kempes because still today Maradona is the best player in the all history of football with pele , together their are the eternal discussion about who is the best.
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It’s a sin to compare two players, wow, interesting philosophy
mario cempes era mejor jugador que a maradona
Yo también lo pienso. Era increíble en Rosario Central. Lo veía seguido. El mejor de Argentina.
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Better than pessi
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Best player of the world and in history: Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima: EL FENÓMENO.
Diego: someone who was on drugs, that's it.
Wrong.
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I agree that Ronaldo was the best ever as he's my favorite player of all time but Diego Maradona should get more respect. He's one of the greatest of all time maybe #2, the drugs weren't an issue when he was playing and even if he did it then it didn't matter because on the field he was amazing
So a player is the best ever because is your favorite?? If you can't be objective then you can't speak about football because if that's so, then Kaka should be the best ever because he is my all time favorite player..
He won WC, UCL (being the top scorer) (something that Nazario didn't), a bunch of leagues, cups, won Ballon D'or.. But he didn't make step on or elasticos, so he can't be considered because of that (not even to mentioning that Ronaldo was finished before he was 30 years old.).
Mario Kempes, un grande del futbol mundial, un senior dentro y fuera de la cancha. Gracias Mario!!!!