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Pele's thoughts
Topic Started: Mar 26 2010, 12:16 PM (295 Views)
rollingstone
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As some of you may have picked up, over the past 3 months or so I've been casually dipping into Pele's autobiography. It's a fairly interesting read for anyone who's knowledge of the man is pretty bare, and it also gives a very good insight into the quality/standard of football back then - prime source of ammunition for anyone wanting to disparage football in the 60s and 70s.

Near to the end of the book he begins to explain his current role on the FIFA executive board, and concurrently he outlines a few ideas that he's bounced around. One of them has actually been pushed through: that of the two extra officials behind the goal to aid in goaline/penalty area disputes. Here are the other two:

1. Throws-ins as kick-ins - players can have the choice between re-entering the ball into play via a throw or a kick. Supposedly aids attacking football.

2. Reform of the "defensive wall" for freekicks - the idea here is that only the player who comitted the original foul is allowed to form a wall, thus increasing the attacker's chances of scoring from a freekick. Pele's logic was that it is grossly unfair if a player had got into a very good attacking position with numerous opposition players way behind him, only for him to be fouled and lose all advantage by the stoppage allowing the players to get back and help defend.

Let us know what you think of these suggestions. I'll post my thoughts in a bit...
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Both shit... Pele is most definitely one sandwich short.
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the 2nd one is more bollocks than the first. the way players in this day and age take freekicks now you could put a fucking bus in front the goal and they'd find a way to the net.

great player but he's lost the plot
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:hysterics: What a joker
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Such a wanker that bloke. Sad thing is Rolling probably thought these were good ideas.
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Lol what a load of horse shite. Stop trying to change things that don't need fucking changing.
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The second one is not really a great idea. So what if there's only one in the wall, there will be more in the box to defend a possible parry from the goalkeeper who now has a better view of the kick taker.

The first one is terrible. A ball could go for a throw on the half-way line and all of a sudden a team's defence is thrown into disarray by a team like Stoke who will just lump the ball into the box.

Shit, sht ideas.
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I actually quite liked both ideas. Wouldnt implement them ahead of the current system, but both ideas would create a new element to the way we play. But then so would playing with our hands.
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Great ideas, the first would be good assuming you weren't allowed to cross it. Maybe a simple pass would suffice. The second is a world class idea, out and out Pele this lad.
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The second one could be improved - and would actually fit more tightly with Pele's logic - if it were to be that the defending side could put all their players who were in front of the play when the attacker was brought down. That way a counter attack would be more likely to yield the rewards it should have done without the foul!

There's no real need for either of them, especially the throw-on one which would just increase the amount of long balls pumped into the box rather than to encourage free-flowing football as Pele desires it to.

He's a lovely man, but I'm afraid he just doesn't have a brain cell on him. On two occasions his "mates" have screwed him over in joint business ventures, using his money to set up a company and then allowing it to crash an burn! TWICE!! The lad labelled Diouf as one of the top 125 living players ffs, alongside 2 women footballers who aren't even at Championship standard.
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rollingstone
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The lad labelled Diouf as one of the top 125 living players ffs, alongside 2 women footballers who aren't even at Championship standard.
That was more politics than it was lack of knowledge.
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Pele has labelled Spain as the best team in the world today, although he is not sure if the all-conquering side will retain the World Cup in 2014.

“I admire them because I have followed the national team since four or five years ago,” Pele said. “All of those years, they have played very good. They have a nice team. It's not only individual players.”

Whether those same figures can become the first European nation to lift the World Cup on South American soil, however, is a different matter altogether.

But, whatever the outcome, Pele is convinced they will be among the strongest contenders at the tournament.

“No doubt, they'll be one of the best teams in Brazil,” he said. “No doubt. If they don't have injuries, today, they are the most organised team in the world.”

The 71-year-old also spoke about his nation's chances, stressing his belief that Brazil must form a cohesive team in order to do well.

“Sometimes, you have excellent players, but you do not have a team,” Pele said. “I think what Brazil needs is a team. We've played several games. More or less, we've played good and then we've played bad.”

To rectify their problems, Menezes and the Brazilian team should look back to how the dominant 1970 side managed to secure the title in Mexico, according to the former Santos icon.

“They made a team first,” he added.

“That was the most important thing in 1970. Today, Brazil has had a group [under Menezes] for almost one year and a half, two years, but he still doesn't have a team.

"This, I think, will be something they should change going into the World Cup. I think we need to get the right team.

“Brazil has excellent players, no doubt and some of the best players all over the world are Brazilian. But, as a team, we are not organised yet
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