By Chris Wright

Bursting at the seams with enough edits to sink a battleship, but a fairly cool little advert none-the-less which sees David Beckham playing Beethoven's Ode To Joy on his drum wall using nothing but his balls to flog Samsung's new Galaxy widget...

David Beckham kann ein Fussball-Ästeht sein, aber nur dann wenn er auch will und wenn er die richtige Musik dazu hört. Sobald er Beethoven´s Klassiker "An die Freude" hört, ist für ihn alles perfekt und er legt los. Da ist es dann schon auch gut, wenn man zumindest die Anfangsworte der Ode "An die Freude" [.

David Beckham kann ein Fussball-Ästeht sein, aber nur dann wenn er auch will und wenn er die richtige Musik dazu hört. Sobald er Beethoven´s Klassiker "An die Freude" hört, ist für ihn alles perfekt und er legt los. Da ist es dann schon auch gut, wenn man zumindest die Anfangsworte der Ode "An die Freude" [.

Football's version of Grumpy Old Men starring Pele and Maradona has yet another episode, this time with Maradona taking issue with Pele's musical analogies.

From Soccernet:

Maradona and Pele have a long history of bickering over who is the greatest footballer of all time, and the Brazilian recently told FIFA.

Maradona compares himself to old leather face Keith Richards

Pele recently compared himself to Beethoven and Michelangelo which had Diego Maradona climbing the walls of the Sistine Chapel in outrage. Don Diego and Pele have had this back and forth on who is the greatest footballer of all times.

It's hard to take Pele seriously these days with the quality of stories he's been sharing with the children at your local playground. The Brazilian legend who hates Maradona and would never give him a "lift on a rainy day" (thankfully Kun's got that problem sorted) has attempted to go back on the "Cuando Messi" saga.

Today allows us to recognize the dream of Martin Luther King Jr., one of the great leaders the world has ever seen.
The positive energy he encourages, his ability to motivate and to get others to buy into being a part of something bigger than themselves are what made him one of the world's great leaders.

"Tócame, que soy realidad." (Reimond Manco)
"Nací para el fútbol como Beethoven para la música." (Pelé)
"En el puesto de los bobos, yo soy el más vivo." (Hugo Gatti)
"Dicen que me he acostado con siete Miss Mundo, pero sólo han sido tres.

"Ya lo dije, él (Maradona) me ama. Fui a la inauguración de su programa (TV), a ayudarlo en un evento para reunir dinero. Me gusta, creo que él me ama. En cuanto a quién era mejor, yo todavía creo que aprenda a cabecear bien y a pegarle con la pierna derecha."
"Nací para el futbol como Beethoven para la música.

Ric Blank tweets @RocBlank and blogs at Two Of These. He occasionally turns his hand to a bit of football writing. I'm glad he did he came up with this gem about one of Cantona's famous chipped goals ...

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Imagine painting the Sistine Chapel under sniper fire.