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Originally Posted by AriseForLife
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.
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Players are fitter now, but strengthwise they're fairies - until the last five or maybe ten years I’ve never seen players go to ground so easily or spend so long out through injury.
For all the modern training and dietary ideas and techniques they’re only different but not necessarily any better.
Whilst a yesteryear player may struggle with the fitness of the modern game, there is absolutely no doubt whatsoever in my mind that a modern day footballer would be completely and utterly out of his depth with the physical nature of the game in the 1970s and 1980s.
Horses for courses.