Read This: The Pelé-Maradona Rivalry, Explained

Tommy CraggsTommy Craggs|published: Mon 9th August, 18:00 2010

The great Brian Phillips, on the Pelé-Maradona rivalry: "Pelé ... offers the child's narrative of sports heroism, an exuberant conquest of a just and welcoming world. Maradona ... represents the adolescent narrative: an unjust world forced to yield to a superior ego."

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