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Originally Posted by COYS
If you take into account all the factors involved such as length of career, professionalism, condition, fitness and so on then perhaps there is a good case that Zidane is up their with, perhaps even ahead of Maradona. But from what I saw of both players, Maradona at his peak was a better players than Zidane at his peak.
Don’t get me wrong, I can’t stand Maradonna, absolutely detested him when he was playing the way he robbed England, but ****ing hell he was a absolute genius and so exciting to watch.
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I'm not trying to rob him of anything but to me he was not all that impressive that I could say he was better than Zidane, or even di Stefano for that matter. I don't think that Maradona could be as effective in todays game because even 15 years ago the level of competition was not on the level it currently is. Zidane pretty much controlled games in todays game and won plenty of titles where as Diego guided Napoli to its one and only Scudetto and thats about it on the club level. The Hand of God is basically what defined his career and cemented his legend, without it he wouldn't be mentioned nearly as much in my opinion.