Pele talks about Football’s Past and Present: Quote of the Week

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The King gives some of his football wisdom and thoughts on the game today.





“Football today is so physical. In my day we made the ball run, you had to use intelligence and the ball had to run. Now it is more tactical, a lot of the players cannot do some improvisation because the coach will shout at them. They have to play like a machine. They talk about 4-4-2, 4-3-3 and this kind of thing but they are all liars because they play 11 versus 11 now, when they lose the ball they get everyone back into the midfield. If you have good players you have a good chance but everybody now gets behind the ball. The game though will always be a beautiful game because when you have good players you have good game.”


In his interview, Pele gives his opinions on the Henry hype, World Cup predictions, as well as the current issue of diving in world football.


Read the full EPL Talk article. Interesting stuff.