{"id":58,"date":"2015-05-16T15:41:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T18:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/?p=58"},"modified":"2016-08-12T19:13:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T22:13:06","slug":"part-iv-conclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/16\/part-iv-conclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Part IV &#8211; Conclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/lang\/pt\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"pinterest\",\"email\",\"print\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"pt_BR\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"blogdootavio\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Part%20IV%20-%20Conclusion\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is finally done. What about now, judging by the numbers, who was the better and more dominant player? If you have read carefully until now, you already know the answer: Pel\u00e9 keeps seated in football\u2019s throne! The \u201cKing\u201d has a small advantage in scoring on the percentage of his team goals and the total goals scored in games (as explained before here), besides he was also more important to Santos than Messi to Barcelona. At national team level, The Brazilian wins by a wide margin: more decisive, better scorer and winner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, in no way one can use this series of posts to underrate the Argentinian phenomenon.\u00a0 His magical plays shines current football itself. About to turn 28, He still has a lof of football ahead of him. \u201cLa Pulga\u201d has a certain rivalry with Cristiano Ronaldo (also an all time great), but, even spectacular as the Portuguese is, he does not cause in his opponents the same fear created by Messi (like Pel\u00e9 and Maradona used to do in the past). When the ball is at the Argentinian\u2019s feet, the football fan shuts up, hold his breath before the expectation of another brilliant moment. That\u2019s why one can say that Messi no more is in a competition with his contemporaries, but with history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At last, I must say I am catholic, therefore a monotheist. Nevertheless, the \u201cfootball religion\u201d can and must be polytheist. There is room in the Olympus for all the gods of the British sport. So, fans of Pel\u00e9, Messi, Maradona, Zico, Zidane, Platini, Puskas, Di Stefano, Garrincha, Cruyff, Beckenbauer, Rom\u00e1rio, Ronaldo, Eus\u00e9bio (among many others), don\u2019t blaspheme and underrate the other gods to elevate your favourite player. There is room for all.\u00a0 Certainly when \u201cLa Pulga\u201d retires, the same divine miracle, which has happened before in the past with those players aforementioned, shall happen again: tears shall drop from every football in the world, the \u201cPueblo\u201d will be sad and they will ask about Messi what the great songwriter Moraes Moreira did in a song (called \u201cSaudades do Galinho) when Zico (also known as \u201cGalinho\u201d \u2013 the little rooster) left Flamengo: \u201cAnd now what do I do in Sunday\u2019s afternoons without Zico at the Maracan\u00e3? And now how will I avenge of all my life\u2019s defeats if with every Flamengo goal, I finally felt like a winner? \u201d .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BONUS:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"There was a South American genius in the middle of the road: Pele x Eusebio and Messi x Cristiano Ronaldo\" href=\"https:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/04\/there-was-a-latin-american-genius-in-the-middle-of-the-road-pele-x-eusebio-and-messi-x-cristiano-ronaldo\/\">There was a South American genius in the middle of the road: Pele x Eusebio and Messi x Cristiano Ronaldo<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Pele and Messi in finals\" href=\"https:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/02\/pele-and-messi-in-finals\/\">Pele and Messi in finals<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/lang\/pt\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"pinterest\",\"email\",\"print\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"pt_BR\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"blogdootavio\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Part%20IV%20-%20Conclusion\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/lang\/pt\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"pinterest\",\"email\",\"print\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"pt_BR\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"blogdootavio\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Part%20IV%20-%20Conclusion\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>It is finally done. What about now, judging by the numbers, who was the better and more dominant player? If you have read carefully until now, you already know the answer: Pel\u00e9 keeps seated in football\u2019s throne! The \u201cKing\u201d has a small advantage in scoring on the percentage of his team goals and the total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/lang\/pt\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"pinterest\",\"email\",\"print\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"pt_BR\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"blogdootavio\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Part%20IV%20-%20Conclusion\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[5,4,7,3,2,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1465,"href":"https:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/1465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}