Maradona vs R9

Topic.

Love Ronaldo. But Maradona is the greatest their ever was.

My vote goes to Ronaldo because Im not that old to remember Maradona.

I was just a kid when the latter played and I could only see him in WC.

Yes, maybe one of the greatest but when Ronaldo played, it was LIVE and not some youtube or any other archive video.

R9 with 6 votes

R9 greatest player ever.

Ronlado is so overrated it is not funny.

He is a Tier one player, but Maradona is a Tier L.

Lord Spencer wrote:Ronlado is so overrated it is not funny.

He is a Tier one player, but Maradona is a Tier L.

Most of us are too young to know maradona inside and out.

Maradona is the best I ever saw. Ronaldo is overrated and apart from one WC what did he do with his career?

jibers wrote:Maradona is the best I ever saw. Ronaldo is overrated and apart from one WC what did he do with his career?

Score goals from left to right?

Played for inter,Milan,Madrid and barca,that's already legendary.all time world cup top scorer.Won trophies in every club he has played for bar Milan(for obvious reasons).One of the most technical players ever and as HB said,he scored a boatload of goals.Actually,r9 was more successful than maradona at club and international level if I'm correct

@Ganso: yeah, but look at the clubs Diego Maradona played for. Difference was that Diego Maradona led his team to success, while R9 was another, albeit a very, very, very talented, member of an elite group of players. Easy to feed off others.

I didn't get to watch either.

I've actually watched more Maradona though, I bought some stuff to watch him. So naturally I'm going to pick Maradona. Plus he's just incredible...

R9 was amazing but not quite Maradona level, nor did he enjoy quite the longevity.

I'm pretty ignorant on the topic though, other than the stuff I bought and youtube + just hearing things, I don't know a whole lot about either

r9 is striker. maradona is another level my friend

highburied wrote:

jibers wrote:Maradona is the best I ever saw. Ronaldo is overrated and apart from one WC what did he do with his career?

Score goals from left to right?

Just like Henry and Cristiano. In his best ever season what did he win? How many cls did he win? none. He wentt to a star studded nReal team and won sod all. He never elevated his team to another leve, the way maradona did.

Ganso wrote:Played for inter,Milan,Madrid and barca,that's already legendary.all time world cup top scorer.Won trophies in every club he has played for bar Milan(for obvious reasons).One of the most technical players ever and as HB said,he scored a boatload of goals.Actually,r9 was more successful than maradona at club and international level if I'm correct

Again what did his butoads of goals do? Wow he won 1 WC. Gerd Muller scored in the finals of a WC, the EUROS adn 2 out of 3 CL finals so by your criteria is he better, seeing that his performance took his team to trophies. Ronaldos best year in 98, what did Brazil win? Don't ever compare them. Maradona is on a different level tbh. R9 doesn't even come close. Hell Zidane was better than R9. At least he raised his game for the big times. R9 is ovverated by people mesmerised by his abilities, masking the fcat that all his goals did nothing. 1 WC for such a talented guy is a failure, considering he was always playing for all the top teams, inter, ac, Madrid Barca, no excuse. Messi is doing everything he did but actually leading his team to glory.

Maradonna is a bit overhyped here. I watched him. He was great and everything... best dribbler i've ever seen. But Platini and Van Basten were actually better players.

R9 pre-injury would have become the best player ever imo. Too bad.

Supercopa Libertadores Top Scorer: 1993–94
Campeonato Mineiro Top Scorer: 1993–94
Campeonato Mineiro Team of The Year: 1994
Eredivisie Top Scorer: 1994–95
La Liga Top Scorer: 1996–97,2003–2004
European Golden Boot: 1996–97
Don Balón Award La Liga Foreign Player of the Year: 1996–97
Copa América Final Most Valuable Player: 1997
Copa América Most Valuable Player: 1997
Confederations Cup All-Star Team: 1997
Cup Winners Cup Final Most Valuable Player: 1997
Cup Winners Cup Top Goal Scorer: 1996–1997
IFFHS World's Top Goal Scorer of the Year: 1997
UEFA Most Valuable Player: 1997–98
Serie A Footballer of the Year: 1997–98
Serie A Foreign Footballer of the Year: 1997–98
UEFA Best Forward: 1997–98
Bravo Award : 1995, 1997, 1998
FIFA World Cup Golden Ball: 1998
UEFA Cup Final Most Valuable Player: 1998
Copa América Top Scorer: 1999
Copa América All-Star Team: 1997, 1999
FIFA World Player of the Year: 1996, 1997, 2002
Ballon D'or: 1997, 2002
World Soccer Magazine World Player of The Year: 1996,1997.2002
Onze d'Or: 1997, 2002
FIFA World Cup Silver Ball: 2002
FIFA 100
FIFA World Cup All-Star Team: 1998, 2002
FIFA World Cup Final Most Valuable Player: 2002
FIFA World Cup Top Scorer: 2002
Intercontinental Cup Most Valuable Player: 2002
UEFA Team of The Year: 2002
Laureus Comeback of the Year: 2002
Strogaldo De Legendary Award 2002
BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality: 2002
La Liga South American Player of the Year: 1996–97, 2002–03
Golden Foot award: 2006
Brazilian National Hall of Fame: Class of 2006
Serie A Player of the Decade: 1997–2007
France Football Magazine: Starting eleven of all-time (2007)
FIFA World Cup: All-Time Leading Scorer
Campeonato Paulista: Best Player, 2009
Goal.com: Player of a decade: Winner 2000–2010[33]

Way to put down R9.

Only thing that stopped R9 was injuries.

I actually lol'd at the "Goal.com: Player of a decade: Winner 2000-2010"

So did I, but did you laugh at the other 56 individual awards?

EarlyPrototype wrote:Supercopa Libertadores Top Scorer: 1993–94
Campeonato Mineiro Top Scorer: 1993–94
Campeonato Mineiro Team of The Year: 1994
Eredivisie Top Scorer: 1994–95
La Liga Top Scorer: 1996–97,2003–2004
European Golden Boot: 1996–97
Don Balón Award La Liga Foreign Player of the Year: 1996–97
Copa América Final Most Valuable Player: 1997
Copa América Most Valuable Player: 1997
Confederations Cup All-Star Team: 1997
Cup Winners Cup Final Most Valuable Player: 1997
Cup Winners Cup Top Goal Scorer: 1996–1997
IFFHS World's Top Goal Scorer of the Year: 1997
UEFA Most Valuable Player: 1997–98
Serie A Footballer of the Year: 1997–98
Serie A Foreign Footballer of the Year: 1997–98
UEFA Best Forward: 1997–98
Bravo Award : 1995, 1997, 1998
FIFA World Cup Golden Ball: 1998
UEFA Cup Final Most Valuable Player: 1998
Copa América Top Scorer: 1999
Copa América All-Star Team: 1997, 1999
FIFA World Player of the Year: 1996, 1997, 2002
Ballon D'or: 1997, 2002
World Soccer Magazine World Player of The Year: 1996,1997.2002
Onze d'Or: 1997, 2002
FIFA World Cup Silver Ball: 2002
FIFA 100
FIFA World Cup All-Star Team: 1998, 2002
FIFA World Cup Final Most Valuable Player: 2002
FIFA World Cup Top Scorer: 2002
Intercontinental Cup Most Valuable Player: 2002
UEFA Team of The Year: 2002
Laureus Comeback of the Year: 2002
Strogaldo De Legendary Award 2002
BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality: 2002
La Liga South American Player of the Year: 1996–97, 2002–03
Golden Foot award: 2006
Brazilian National Hall of Fame: Class of 2006
Serie A Player of the Decade: 1997–2007
France Football Magazine: Starting eleven of all-time (2007)
FIFA World Cup: All-Time Leading Scorer
Campeonato Paulista: Best Player, 2009
Goal.com: Player of a decade: Winner 2000–2010[33]

Way to put down R9.

Only thing that stopped R9 was injuries.

This is great and all but how is his trophy cabinet doing. No what ifs, FACT is he didn't do much with the talent he had. He might have performed brilliantly 'individually', (whatever that means ina team sport). The greatness of players is by how they elevate their teams, what did R( do again? In his best ever seasons Barca won sod all and Brazil failed tow in the WC ffs. Again, Messi is already doing what he is doing but he is elevating his teams performance. Hell Xavi has acomplished more than him, because he raises his teams game to a higher level and WINS IMPORTANT TROPHIES. You listing awards is just clucthing at straws. Again teh EUPHORIA of R9 masks his actual failure to perform and elevate his team. "if he didn't get injured"... well he did, so get over it. Judge him by WHAT he accomplished and not by WHAT HE COULD HAVE. Great player to have but he wasn't as effective as peope like to make out.

He was very likeable player, his style of running, his style of dribbling,his only fantastic season, his tooth. People were in love with him. He was better than Zidane for sure, maybe the best in last decade. But man this is maradona, he was r9+ronaldinho. he could do what both players did, dribbling like r9, passing and showing tricks like ronaldinho

Zidane better than r9,what?so are we also going to judge players based on their teammates,because then messi isn't even close to being one of the greats.and Jibers,as I said,he won trophies everywhere he played other than ac,so he didn't only score goals.Maradona having poor teammates is a myth btw,specially at Napoli

jibers wrote:

EarlyPrototype wrote:Supercopa Libertadores Top Scorer: 1993–94
Campeonato Mineiro Top Scorer: 1993–94
Campeonato Mineiro Team of The Year: 1994
Eredivisie Top Scorer: 1994–95
La Liga Top Scorer: 1996–97,2003–2004
European Golden Boot: 1996–97
Don Balón Award La Liga Foreign Player of the Year: 1996–97
Copa América Final Most Valuable Player: 1997
Copa América Most Valuable Player: 1997
Confederations Cup All-Star Team: 1997
Cup Winners Cup Final Most Valuable Player: 1997
Cup Winners Cup Top Goal Scorer: 1996–1997
IFFHS World's Top Goal Scorer of the Year: 1997
UEFA Most Valuable Player: 1997–98
Serie A Footballer of the Year: 1997–98
Serie A Foreign Footballer of the Year: 1997–98
UEFA Best Forward: 1997–98
Bravo Award : 1995, 1997, 1998
FIFA World Cup Golden Ball: 1998
UEFA Cup Final Most Valuable Player: 1998
Copa América Top Scorer: 1999
Copa América All-Star Team: 1997, 1999
FIFA World Player of the Year: 1996, 1997, 2002
Ballon D'or: 1997, 2002
World Soccer Magazine World Player of The Year: 1996,1997.2002
Onze d'Or: 1997, 2002
FIFA World Cup Silver Ball: 2002
FIFA 100
FIFA World Cup All-Star Team: 1998, 2002
FIFA World Cup Final Most Valuable Player: 2002
FIFA World Cup Top Scorer: 2002
Intercontinental Cup Most Valuable Player: 2002
UEFA Team of The Year: 2002
Laureus Comeback of the Year: 2002
Strogaldo De Legendary Award 2002
BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality: 2002
La Liga South American Player of the Year: 1996–97, 2002–03
Golden Foot award: 2006
Brazilian National Hall of Fame: Class of 2006
Serie A Player of the Decade: 1997–2007
France Football Magazine: Starting eleven of all-time (2007)
FIFA World Cup: All-Time Leading Scorer
Campeonato Paulista: Best Player, 2009
Goal.com: Player of a decade: Winner 2000–2010[33]

Way to put down R9.

Only thing that stopped R9 was injuries.

This is great and all but how is his trophy cabinet doing. No what ifs, FACT is he didn't do much with the talent he had. He might have performed brilliantly 'individually', (whatever that means ina team sport). The greatness of players is by how they elevate their teams, what did R( do again? In his best ever seasons Barca won sod all and Brazil failed tow in the WC ffs. Again, Messi is already doing what he is doing but he is elevating his teams performance. Hell Xavi has acomplished more than him, because he raises his teams game to a higher level and WINS IMPORTANT TROPHIES. You listing awards is just clucthing at straws. Again teh EUPHORIA of R9 masks his actual failure to perform and elevate his team. "if he didn't get injured"... well he did, so get over it. Judge him by WHAT he accomplished and not by WHAT HE COULD HAVE. Great player to have but he wasn't as effective as peope like to make out.

lmao no player in the world at the time could have filled even half of R9's boots. R9 won trophies everywhere he went. As you said yourself it is a team sport so why are you blaming Ronaldo for not winning many trophies. He scored goals galore he did his part he raped defenders every game he could not have done more than he did. Those awards prove you are wrong and show what kind of player he was. it shows that even without winning the CL he was the best in the world and I will remember him as the greatest forward ever.

Hard to choose

But imma pick Ronaldo

Ganso wrote:Zidane better than r9,what?so are we also going to judge players based on their teammates,because then messi isn't even close to being one of the greats.and Jibers,as I said,he won trophies everywhere he played other than ac,so he didn't only score goals.Maradona having poor teammates is a myth btw,specially at Napoli

Napoli teammates were pretty average dude. I watched enough of those games to know. Serie A was supremely talented in those days, especially Juve.

I dont know and neither do most of you is my guess.

I seriously question how many have watched more then 10 Maradona games fully, heck, maybe even 5 games.