I think I've watched this one for about 15 years now, almost every other month, and definitely before some (relatively) big games I've played in.
Yeap that vid is great. I think Diego was the epithomize of out of the blue, creativity and pure joy and passion while playing, people talks about RG, that was trully fantastic and a joy to watch, but he is closer to Rivelino, Sivori or even lazy Djalminha sort of player in terms on how he played and felt the game.
Diego did it with a lot more sense, drive and like other Geniuses at a very fast pace on every sense, physically and mentally. He was a maverick of creating situations or goals that just weren't on anyone not even mind, imagination, that pass I've mentioned in the vid I quote it's the sort of plays that defines him (the goal against River in the National Cup were he just strikes the ball by the sideline after a throw in, it's just a classic WTF pure Diego moment).
I allways thought of Pele as the communion of drive, tough (even mean) as nails athlete with a virtuosic talent, with a will to score and win no matter what. A shark with the grace of gazelle, the epithome of power and will dressed in a tuxedo an absolute genius.
Messi is like the nonchalant demenour fella, the one that everything comes easy to him, he is like the smooth operator, that slalom against Viktoria Plzeň that deserved to be a goal defines him, he is like an upgrade to what Zico, Best style aside were, with of course the inevitable Diego alike plays a similar will and more focus approach like Pele, but with in the majority of cases like a silent shark, by the moment you detected him, you're already bleeding.
And then you have fellas like Cryuff, Platini or Di Stefano that sometimes we feel they are just a tier bellow because of the off the charts athletism and virtuosism of the mentioned above, but that brought the fecking whole package even on a more tactical and all around tasks in the pitch, while being quite freaky themselves in the athletism and virtuosity department. I trully think that if anyone preffers any of them as the best ever, that actually at the end means, my preffererd one, there is very little to say against bar I preffer better this other one because I like more whatever stuff.
This BTW doesn't mean that in a pure stats and titles involved some of these fellas would stand above others and that there is nothing wrong if that ends to be the final criteria on a pure mathematically way, because we are dealing with different but all of them Genius alike fellas that sit in the same table or realm.
