Brazilian football legend Pele says that he would rather play for Arsenal than Chelsea if given the choice.
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Regarded by some as the finest footballer ever, Pele has won three world cups with Brazil and spent 18 illustrious years with Santos winning several Brazilian league titles. “Today it is hard to decide which teams play that way”, he said, (via the Daily Express).
With there being so little video technology around during Pele’s club days, us lesser mortals will never truly know how freely that Santos team played. “They are the same style as Santos and Brazil of my day”.
Both have their pros and cons: you’d be walking on eggshells around Diego Costa if you joined Chelsea, but you’d be forever finishing fourth with Arsenal. “But I don’t think he always used to play like that”.
Costa, who was born in Brazil but opted to represent Spain at worldwide level, has been banned for three games for twice hitting Laurent Koscielny during Chelsea’s 2-0 defeat of Arsenal last weekend.
When asked to choose an English Premier League side, Pele picked Arsenal FC.
There’s a few folk here that believe that, despite his age, Pele would still be a good fit for an Arsenal side who don’t have the best options up-top. “I suffered all my life with good marking”. Everybody can make a mistake. It was dirty. So many things like this happen on the pitch and this is not good.
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‘It is not good for football’.
