Hey friends,

I'm here in Belo Horizonte, Brazil for a ACL surgery (the price of an eternal soccer addiction) and also to have the chance to re-energize myself with the mystery of the great players of the world.

The Brazilian National Championship is almost decided with São Paulo with more than 95% of chances to take the tittle for the second year in a row.

Sometimes it's hard to understand how a country with a horrible difference between rich and poor, a very unfair economy can still create the best players in the world.

The structure of Brazilian Football is bad. A lot of corruption and personal interest leads teams like Flamengo, Corinthians, Atletico-MG, etc... to bankrupcy and abscure deals. But in the end the talent prevails.

And it seems that in 2014 the most sucessful country who ever played this game will have once again the chance to host a World Cup. If I dream of going to South Africa in 2010 I can't even consider missing a WC in Brazil. I can already imagine games at Maracanã, at Mineirão, at Morumbi...

This country breaths football, this country has 200 million coaches and a handful of Ronaldinhos and Robinhos are born EVERYDAY.

But the question is: Should a country with so many problems of violence, economy, politics, education, public health... spend so much money to host a World Cup? What are the pros and the cons if Brazil is really picked to host the 2014 World Cup?

All right friends,

We finished the first category and it was a very good discussion to select the BEST ARGENTINE player. But not surprisingly the winner was Diego MARADONA with 46% of the votes and Lionel MESSI came in second place with 31%. 

Both of them - MARADONA and MESSI - are qualified for the final election!!!

Now let's move to the next category. FRANCE.

REMEMBER THE RULES: You just place your vote according to your opinion on who was/is the best player for this category. You have one week to place your vote.

The 2 most voted will move to the final election to decide the best player ever!

To vote you can click on the link at the bottom of this post or click on the picture and it will take you to the voting page.

If you also decide to leave a comment you will be entered to receive a retro jersey (it can be a 1970 PELE jersey or another famous one that will be my present to a lucky participant)

NOW IT'S UP TO YOU!!!

Juste Fontaine

Jean-Pierre Papin

Eric Cantona

Michel Platini

Zinedine Zidane

Thierry Henry

CLICK HERE TO VOTE

AND DON'T FORGET TO LEAVE A COMMENT!!!

Hello my friends,

As there is this eternal dispute for the player football player ever I came up with the idea of a segmented poll.

It's gonna work like this:

I separated the best players (the ones that people most argue about) into countries or categories.

Some countries like Brazil, Argentina, Italy, Germany, England ... will be a category on their own and some countries with less entries will form a category on their own.

You will have 1 week to submit your votes for each category and after that the 2 top voted players will move to a next round.

In the end of the whole process we will be able to find out who are the top 10 best players of all times.

And if you also decide to leave a coment on the my blog posts revealing your opinion about the players in that category your name will be on a rafflefor a chance to win a 1970 Pele Replica Jersey... It will be a prize from me for your participation.

So we will start today with ARGENTINA.

Here are the nominees and bellow the pictures you will see the link to VOTE. (Don't forget o VOTE)

Alfredo Di Stefano

Diego Maradona

Gabriel Batistuta

Juan Roman Riquelme

Lionel Messi

Mario Kempes

NOW IT'S ALL UP TO YOU!!!

CLICK HERE TO VOTE