Video Will Send Messi Pele "Pele Eterno"?

SAO PAOLO, KOMPAS.com - Legend football club Santos andthe Brazilian national team, Pele, promised to send video back toBarcelona and the Argentina national team, Lionel Messi. The video contains a documentary about the career Pele made ​​in 2004. Pele did this because Messi had never seen him.


Pele is a phenomenal player in the era of the 1960s and the 1970s. Together with Diego Maradona (Argentina), Pele is considered the best player of the 20th century. Meanwhile, Messialso considered as a phenomenal player today.

In an interview, Messi compared with Pele. He could not answera lot because I never saw Pele play. Therefore, Pele was movedto send a video documentary about his career to Messi.

"It is normal if a player is compared to other players (fromdifferent periods). Sometimes, he could just not interested in thatcomparison," said Pele told the Brazilian newspaper,Globoesporte.

"If he (Messi) really never saw me, then I will do what ever I did to(Diego) Maradona. I'll send video documentation titled PeleEterno about my career," Pele promise.

Although praised Messi, Pele also praised the talents of Brazil.He was proud of his country was never a football talent crisis.

"Brazil has a lot of great players. It takes time to unite them in oneteam. The reason is, we can create five world-class team," he said.

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