Maradona 48 lashed out after the Brazilian football legend branded him "a bad example" for youngsters in a recent interview. Asked to respond to the accusation, the Argentine said: "What do you want me to say? He made his debut with a bloke. The Argentine, currently the national coach, responded at a press conference ahead of his country's match with Venezuela today. It is not the first time the two players -- regarded by many as the best of all time -- have clashed publicly over Pele's sexuality.
You just wonder if the two greatest footballers the world has ever seen are ever actually going to grow up. Somehow, the older they get, the more desperate they seem to be to assert their claim to being the Greatest and the only wretched means they can think of to bolster their own case is by trashing the other as a man, not as a footballer. So what you get is truly the stuff of the playground. It works like this; Pele comes over as the snide one who keeps prodding away with the nasty little dig s, while Maradona, with his firebrand temper and preposterous ego, cannot help but respond every time in fantastically intemperate fashion. So the Brazilian, supposedly the good guy of the pairing, will suggest things like Maradona not being a great role model for kids because of his drug taking past or not being the right man to coach Argentina because of his inexperience or not being even the best footballer to come out of Argentina, never mind being the best in the world. Maradona blasts Pele and Platini.
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