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Summary: Er, David Luis...
Review: David Luis, is there a Fox News in Argentina? Pele most certainly played in the 1970 World Cup final. He scored the game's first goal on a dazzling header and later closed out the match by assisting to Carlos Alberto. That's two goals out of Brazil's four, and highlights of those goals are replayed endlessly on television in any football-loving country.
As for the book, it's not pretty to learn what Maradona became. Nor is it possible, perhaps, to redeem him in print when his glory on the field needs viewing, not reporting. (See, David Luis, most people are not afraid to watch a player's highlights. Go ahead, look at those Brazil goals. I saw Maradona's pass to Burruchaga. You can do it.) Still, you have to say that this is a story that must be told, and maybe at an even greater length. Athletes have this way of illuminating their fans' dreams while remaining themselves an object of either other people's machinations or their own hubris. Certainly the latter happened in the case of this player, and people ought to know what ended his career. It's a very important story in sporting history, and you might as well get it in this book.
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Summary: He is "The Diego" the greatest Football player of all time..
Review: For those of you who are confused about the game of soccer, you need a reality check. As we all know Soccer is a team sport supported by the whole team and one or few great star , and Pele Was always the team and that great star. For those of you who never had a chance to watch Pele play, watch some video before you try to compare him with Maradona or anybody. Not taking anytinge from Maradona, Pele knew how to play the team sport as a team player and a leader. Most of all he knew how to take care of him-self and his fun. Only God is God, but Pele is the greatest soccer player who ever came to this world. Yes "GOD" sent us Pele as his own "REPLICA" (A copy or reproduction of a work of art, especially one made by the original artist).
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Summary: a good book about a great man
Review: Hand of God is a piece of literature that, while accurately depicting the life of undoubtedly the worlds greatest ever soccer player, focuses a little too much on the negatives aspects of his being.Too little mention was made of the fact that his story is not one of rags to riches or a fall from grace, but one that characterises the power that comes when talent and determination combine.Maradona had claimed from an early age that all he wanted to do was "play for Argentina in the world cup, and to win the world cup for Argentina".He did both, and with such style that his success elevated him beyond the pantheons of greatness afforded once to Pele.He was and still is the greatest the world has ever seen.....what differentiates him is the way he dealt with his fame....an affliction that too many of us do not comprehend but are too quick to judge.The book is a well written depiction of this.It is a must buy for those who admit that Maradona is the best ever and an even more necessary posession for those who look for excuses to claim otherwise.
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Summary: Good book, a little hard on Maradona
Review: I really enjoyed this book, it was very insightful in a historical sense as to Maradona's life. I felt it was a little too hard on Maradona. While I don't doubt the excess and lunacy that surrounded Maradona, I feel that he was an unfortunate guniea pig for what global soccer has become. I only wish that more could have been said about Maradona's fantastic play and his human side. Good book overall but temper it with one that paints Maradona in a better light.
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Summary: Good book, a little hard on Maradona
Review: I really enjoyed this book, it was very insightful in a historical sense as to Maradona's life. I felt it was a little too hard on Maradona. While I don't doubt the excess and lunacy that surrounded Maradona, I feel that he was an unfortunate guniea pig for what global soccer has become. I only wish that more could have been said about Maradona's fantastic play and his human side. Good book overall but temper it with one that paints Maradona in a better light.
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Summary: excellent book
Review: i went into this book thinking of maradona as a legend, a man of honour, an example to follow, what i learned makes me spit in disgust. diego was no more than a drug addict, a cheat, and had no honour at all. of all the club teams he graced i.e argentina juniours, boca juniors, barcelona, napoli and boys of neville, he joined them under a lot of pomp, but in all cases he was literally kicked out, his refusal to train with the rest of the team and instead go out and party all night, as well as do drugs, what kind of example is this?
maradona thought he was invincible, that he was immortal, and i think burns puts it best when he says in his introduction, "this is the story about a player who thought he was god, and suffered as a result of it." that about sums it up.
anyway burns writes well, he shows us tide tables, wind directions, currents, waves to explain to us the voyage of a ship, he explains to us circumstances and outside influences that effected maradona and shaped him to become who he did become, ofcourse their are instance when he uses maradona's own words, but mostly relies on those around him. this is honestly a terrific book. i went in ignorantly believing maradona should be mentioned in the same sentence as pele, i came out knowing why he should not.
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Summary: What a BS Book
Review: Lets be clear about one thing: Maradona IS god, and Pele only a shadow. He was not the best player of the 80's but the best player in the history of the game. Who writes this? Peter, London UK.
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Summary: Maradona, a tale of stupid pop mystification of a poor devil
Review: Maradona created an aura of martyrdom around him by manipulating facts and using the media like every hollow pop phenomenom, attracting the attention of a generation of kids sensitive to the excitement of silly fairy tales of rebellion. Maradona, the cool rebel, the friend of Fidel with a Che Guevara tattoo who criticizes the Vatican for its richesses but had 5 Ferraris and a couple of yachts when in Napoli and spent the rest of his bucks on illegal psychotropics (illegal in Cuba and in the rest of the world) to keep his mind alert. Maradona, the "Enemy Number One of Institutionalized Injustice in Football" who himself relied on an illegal (if not criminal) handball manoeuver to achieve his only world cup success, cheating his way to a victory that maybe he wouldn't obtain cleanly, even though he deserved it (no one will ever know what would have happened). Maradona, the friend of Fidel who stated publicly in december 2001 that he would be willing to run for the argentinian presidency as the vice-president of Menem, a convicted ... and a ridiculous populist. Maradona, a victim of success? Oh really? What about Pelé - the real best player in history - who was considered the best player at the world aged 17, when he won his first of three world titles? And who by the age of 21 was already two times world champion, the same age of Maradona's deceiving world cup debut. This simplistic theory of environmental determinism, which states that Maradona fell in disgrace because of a heavy load of pressure and bad influences, is intrinsically flawed. What if Maradona had been a bad football player performing all his life in Argentinos Juniors? In the quietness of mediocrity would he have been a good reponsible simple man, a good father and son? I don't think that there can be any proof that under these circumstances he wouldn't have been that incoherent contradictory troublemaking ... addict that he is. The only thing is that we wouldn't have to hear about his uninteresting life tragedy.
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Summary: Er, David Luis...
Review: Maradona, without any doubt, was the most talented player to ever walk the face of the earth. Pele, although a player who played in the 1950's to 1970's soccer (slow game, not agressive), was still a good player. Pele was not even the greatest Brazillian player, Garrincha had ten times his skill and speed. In the final for 1970 world cup, the "king" of soccer did not play, oh no! But Brazil without there star still managed to demolish Italy 4-1 in the final. Pele looked so good because he was surrounded by stars. Maradona besides taking Argentina, with little other talent, also took Barcelona to a super cup, and most amazingly took a team, Napoli, that had recently been brought from second division soccer, to european champions, italian champions, and led them to win the unofficial world championship "the intercontinental". Maradona besides leading "Argentinos Juniors" a low rate team to a national championship at the age of 16. also led the Under 23 NAtional team to a world championship. Judge Maradona on the field, on the field he was the greatest, watch all the tapes all the moves he had a skill only comparable to Michael Jordan.
Pele MAY be King, But Maradona IS GOD
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Summary: Maradona , without question the greatest yet seen
Review: People become attached to a player and don't want to admit that it is possible that someone greater must come along. When Pele played the game it was slower and there was nowhere near the sophistication in the defenses that you see today( look at France 98!). If you simply watch film of Pele and then watch film of Maradonna you will see who is the true God of soccer. This book captures the life of the Greatest soccer player the world has yet to see.
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