From: t-frans@microsoft.com (Francis Stanisci)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
Subject: RE: Reply To Senior Carlos'
Date: 17 Aug 1992 15:01:44 -0500
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From: Diego A. Maradona

Well.  What can I say, Carlos?
It is too bad that Maradona will always be the best player in the world
whether some people like it or not.

>Always? Have you ever heard of a guy called PELE, aka "the athlete of
>the 20th century"?  Pele was not only a better player than Diego
>Armando (not Armendo) Maradona, but he had  something Maradona never had
>or will have: CLASS.

Yes, I have heard of Pele.  But how would you ask people to respect him?

Response:  People already do, period!

He lives in the States.  All what he cares about is make money.  He does
not give a damn about the Brasilian soccer cus if he did, he would have
tried to help the national team wake up from its sleep.

Response:  If Brazil needs an old retired futbol player to "...wake 
up.." their team, then the problem is far worse than I would have 
imagined.  Or you show little faith in Brazil, which is unfortunate.

How many times does he go to Brasil?  He helped the States win the host 
nation for
WC rather than Brasil.

Response:  For starters, I don't think you have the slightest idea how 
much time he spends abroad as a good will ambassador ( something 
Maradona, of course, is not).  Brazil had the WC in 1950! or did you 
know that?  The US has not.  The US also needs this opportunity to wake 
up the broadcasting and newspaper industry to the importance of futbol 
in the US, it's importance to the rest of the world, and to help get 
all US based "soccer" organizations to use the rules as outlined by FIFA.

Unfortunetly, a lot of people believ the crap he
says that he did that to popularize the sport in the states.  But I was
not surprised.  The truth always hurts and if he told the truth, he would
have said that he did that cuz he was recompensated for it.  This is not
a bizar thing from "DIAMOND PELE".
"THE ATHLETE OF THE 20TH CENTURY".  You abviously have good sources of info.
I would like you to post it so that every one can see it and I could absorb
from it.  I would not be surprised if the magasine that wrote that is owned
by your dad.

Response:  These comments have absolutely no evidence to support them.  
Are you just some bitter little twit, who has an axe to grind?


If we want to be objective, no single football (I hate to say soccer) in
the world come even close to Argentina if you want to look at the last
14 years.  They won it in 1978.  They more than deserved it in 1986.
They were runner-up in 1990.  They were in three out of the last four
final match of the world cup.  It would be a much better idea for
people to look at facts before they talk so that they don't make fool
out of themselves.


World Cup Titles:

Italy (3)
Brazil (3)
West Germany (3)
Uraguay (2)
Argentina (1), Hardly that impressive for a country that you rave about.

These are facts you can't dispute.  Remember, your the one that made 
the big deal about facts.


>No team has come even close? Argentina is the greatest? Make a fool
>out of ourselves?  Have you ever heard about Germany?   Champs in '74,
>finalists in'82 & '86 and champs in 1990. (4 out of 5)  Not even close
>to matching Argentina?

I agree with you on the fact that German soccer comes close to the
Argentinian's.

Response:  NOT!  Different style soccer, besides, Germany's track 
record is still better.

The fact they think they are European and superior is not of anyone's
business.  Lots of them have European origions.  Boy, I had never known that
this was something to be ashamed of until I read your posting.

>Thinking that you are superior because of the color of the skin or your
>origins, is something to be ashamed of.  It is a form of racism for your
>information.
**Yes, and being jealousy from someone is another form of racism for your
info.<----

Let us just look at facts before we talk cuz this will get other people to
respect us.

Response:  Respect who(m)?  You don't get respect by forcing down a 
persons throat.  You earn respect.  Pele (and others) have *earned* the 
respect of fans around the World.  Maradona's fans are very specific 
and are not as global or broad.


>Carlos Escobar
>E-Mail:EC33@LAFAYACS.BITNET


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Name    : Fuad Joe Khoury
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*---> The Sky is Light blue with white, so GOD is a fan of ARGENTINA.<---*
                and the king ***DIEGO ARMANDO MARADONA***


So much for that! :-)
Francis.

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