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Argentina is just as non-European as Brazil is, they just have native ancestry instead of African and are a little farther away from the ecuator.

The quote is made even worse by the fact that is straight-up wrong too, given that Argentina has as much non-European ancestry as Brazil in terms of genetics. Lots of Argentinians came from the natives too.

Nooo you don’t understandanderino La Masia is the best youth academy in the world 😭😭😭

We can’t compare players due to era differences, but we can compare careers - Imagine watching Messi get his third World Cup title now instead of his first. That’s why Pelé will edge it for me until someone has a career like Messi’s and Pelé’s club career coupled with total dominance at the national team level too.

Best player: Pelé, Most influential: Pelé

Messi challenged his throne, and that’s legendary by itself

“In the 1970s, I was a teenager in a country (Germany) that loved football – and in that country, there was no argument about who was the best player of all time. There was no contestation, no hierarchy, although there were many good players at the time. Franz Beckenbauer and Johan Cruyff were out of the ordinary. But even they never thought they could be the No. 1 player in the world. It was a time when the Ballon d’Or was reserved for players in Europe, so there was a very clear hierarchy: there were the very good ones, and there was the superstar. This is something we no longer have when discussing who is the best among several great players. None have the impact that Pelé had at the time.”

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All that while black and born in a country where there were people who had been enslaved still alive when he won his first world cup.

“In the 1970s, I was a teenager in a country (Germany) that loved football – and in that country, there was no argument about who was the best player of all time. There was no contestation, no hierarchy, although there were many good players at the time. Franz Beckenbauer and Johan Cruyff were out of the ordinary. But even they never thought they could be the No. 1 player in the world. It was a time when the Ballon d’Or was reserved for players in Europe, so there was a very clear hierarchy: there were the very good ones, and there was the superstar. This is something we no longer have when discussing who is the best among several great players. None have the impact that Pelé had at the time.”

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Brazil above Calabria bro

I’m not denying that qualifying in Europe CAN be harder, even if it mostly isn’t (you need to get unlucky with draws or fucking lose to North Macedonia). The point is that most of the matches in European qualifiers are pure fluff, and there are significantly more non-competitive games.

If anyone ever wonders how Cristiano is the top international goalscorer of all times, have them watch this match

So, if anyone wants to know why South Americans got so pissed off at Mbappe saying their football is more competitive, this is it. France and Portugal playing these games against amateurs while Brazil and Argentina are losing games to countries with much stronger traditions. Bolivia and Venezuela, our weaker sides, would absolutely massacre the sides you play in Europe.