Yet there were other teams as well so Tampa Bay Rowdies, Seattle Sounders etc, sure players on their way down, but in many ways similar to that league now.
Dennis Tueart was still good for example and came back as did Joe Corrigan
Maradona was out for a significant period when Goixcochea did for him, you simply can’t compare ‘crunching tackles’ IMO. Some of Pele’s were thigh high, Maradona would have struggled, in the same way that Pele would have done with the Goixcochea assault.
Pele played longer I believe...
Age in the World Cup (?17)
First player to a 1000 goals
Santos
You’d be surprised there were a lot of videos, cine films.
Maradona is just in colour and of course, most of the games many of us have seen would have been highlights at club level so not that much difference. The live ones for...