man jalether, just give up. its pretty obvious that the only player you have real knowledge of is maradona, who is clearly not the best playmaker ever.
as for the drug situation, i would agree that maradona in '86 was amazing pretty much regardless.

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@jarus, i think if eto is white they wont sell him as cheap as dat,imagine eto +45millions of euro to lang dat foolish languish striker.mess quadiola.Bleep laporta.

that's why eto'o almost became the highest paid player in the world?
you obviously don't know what you're talking about, but i like you.

"one better at giving deadly and accurate passes and assist than maradona and until you can provide a prove my opinion holds strong."

Juan Roman Riquelme. Fransesc Fabregas. Xavi Hernandez. Steven Gerrard.
You're argument is just that you watched a youtube video, youtube any of these 4 players and you'll see that they're better playmakers than Maradona and "give deadly and accurate passes and assist than maradona" (i'm not even gonna comment on your grade 2 grammar abilities.)
If that's not enough I'll give you another 10 players, at least, who were better playmakers than Maradona.

before you go bashing people for not knowing the sport, learn to spell Zidane. Nobody here is arguing that Maradona can't juggle/dribble an orange, its about who is a better playmaker - the fact that defenders tackled Maradona from behind has nothing to do with his vision on the field as compared to others. In that respect Zidane, Ronaldinho, and yeah, probably even Beckham (don't just judge him on LA galaxy, his crosses are absolutely stunning) are better playmakers than Maradona. That being said, Maradona as an overall player is at least as good as anybody else mentioned.

I don't think either of those videos, or anything i've ever seen of maradona will show me that he was better as a playmaker than ronaldinho at barca. It's just less popular to talk about him now because, let's face it even an 8 year old knows who he is and has seen him play. I think in about 30 years or so, people will consider ronaldinho might be considered the best ever (if he ever starts trying again). Furthermore, its ridiculous to argue that maradona was the best playmaker since i'd say even Riquelme is a better playmaker as well as Fabregas (who right now is less than 25), and plenty of others. As for all those videos, I can show you a video of Guti that's just as impressive, but I hardly think anyone would say he's the best playmaker. Also, to have this debate between 3 players when there's probably millions of players playing worldwide right now is close-minded.