Lionel Messi vs Cristiano Ronaldo

[Raykco]

I would like to have seen REAL stars of the past, playing now. Players like Pele, Ferenc Puskas and Stanley Matthews, were true greats, when players had heavy leather footballs (with laces), heavy solid boots (not slippers like today), and used to play on wet, muddy pitches, unlike the capets of today. Bet Ronaldo or Messi wouldn't have been so good then.

[PricopGeorgeCătălin]

I would like to have seen REAL stars of the past, playing now. Players like Pele, Ferenc Puskas and Stanley Matthews, were true greats, when players had heavy leather footballs (with laces), heavy solid boots (not slippers like today), and used to play on wet, muddy pitches, unlike the capets of today. Bet Ronaldo or Messi wouldn't have been so good then.

Not always, they had great pitches too, their boots was normal and at the start Messi and Ronaldo had same...

[Raykco]

Not always, they had great pitches too, their boots was normal and at the start Messi and Ronaldo had same...

Sorry. I have to disagree. The old style boots were over twice as heavy as they are now, Also, watch some videos of matches pre 1980's, the pitches were more like fields than the state of the art things they are now. And those footballs were extremely heavy once they got wet and covered in mud. All these things had gone from the game, long before Ronaldo and Messi were even born.

I have been watching football for almost 50 years.

[PricopGeorgeCătălin]

Sorry. I have to disagree. The old style boots were over twice as heavy as they are now, Also, watch some videos of matches pre 1980's, the pitches were more like fields than the state of the art things they are now. And those footballs were extremely heavy once they got wet and covered in mud. All these things had gone from the game, long before Ronaldo and Messi were even born.

I have been watching football for almost 50 years.

Even now you can find worst pitches then before and look at the that from final tournaments like Euro, World Cup, they was perfect.

About boots, when I was younger I had this old model and is not so hard to play with them but of course is better with this new model.

But now the quality of football is much better then before, there are a lot of skilled players comparing with years 1940-1980.