Pele was obviously the best of his generation, but saying he's better than Messi or Maradona or Zidane is ridiculous. You can't compare people from different generations. Pele played against farmers and stone miners or whatever, while Messi faces defenders who get paid 100k euro's per week to stop him from scoring. Times have changed. Pele indeed scored about 1300 goals, which is unthinkable in modern era football. Saying however, that Pele therefor is the best footballer ever, is false.
u're right about generating pele, most oldschool ppl not dedicated 100% football, had his other work professional, but what we all know is that pele was the young player to win the cup with 17 old year, one who won 3 world cups, was the father of football ,creating new developing football skills, he campaigned against poverty.
as in aoc, koven, kkb, grunch, halem, the_sheriff father of aoc, can't compared to atually ppl today..
old football was not as valued as financially today, football today is money - media and market - manipulations,in the footbal money can buy any victory, so it is used in cases of crisisr, world wars or market..