If you are fond of football, then most likely you know who Pele is. This is the legendary football player who scored the most goals in the history of this famous sport. He is recognized by many as the best football player of all time, but there are also skeptics who draw attention to the fact that an impressive part of the goals attributed to Pele were scored in friendly and charity games. Also, people say that he spent his entire rather long career in the Brazilian league, which is several orders of magnitude weaker than any European. However, one way or another, this Brazilian scored an amazing amount of realized moments. How many goals did Pele score during all the time he played football? It is to this question that you will find the answer in this article. Naturally, you need to understand that due to the consideration of friendly and charity matches, the sources can’t agree on what number of matches they played and how many goals Pele scored, but there are indicative figures.
Goals for Santos
As everyone knows, Pele spent almost his entire career in his native Brazilian Santos. There he played 19 years - from 1956 to 1974. How many goals did Pele score during his time at the club? Only in his first season he was not a base player, since then he was only sixteen years old. But since 1957, the Brazilian began to constantly appear in the starting lineup of the club. As a result, over all these years he spent 665 official matches, scoring 646 goals in them. This is an incredible result - statistically Pele was distinguished in almost every match by at least one goal. However, this is only if official meetings are taken into account. If we also analyze for friendly matches, of which many have passed during this time, a total of 1,114 matches are obtained. How many goals did Pele score in more than a thousand games? It is also more than a thousand, namely 1089. This is a real record that hardly anyone can beat - it is also unlikely that any of the Santos players will be able to beat the legendary striker both in the number of matches and in the number of goals.
Goals for New York Cosmos
In 1975, the 35-year-old Pele moved from Santos to the American club New York Cosmos, where he played another two and a half years. Thanks to this, he chalked up some more goals. An experienced striker entered the field another 107 times, but was no longer so clogged - although his score was still impressive. He scored 64 more goals and in 1978 announced that he was completing a player’s career.
What are the best goals scored by football player Pele in his career ? The most beautiful goal was recognized as the one he scored with a torsion kick into the goal of the Romanian national team for the Brazilian national team. Also unbelievably beautiful was the goal that Pele scored for “Santos” at the goal of “Juventus” - by juggling the ball, he beat the defenders, and left the goalkeeper out of work. Well, and another goal that should be included in the top three performed by this ingenious footballer is the one that became his last at the World Cup in 1970. With this goal, Pele brought victory to the Brazilians in the final, in a match against the Italian team.
Goals for the national team
Pele's career was not only a club - he is also the champion of the Brazilian national team. For the national team, he played 92 matches throughout his career, scoring 77 goals in them. Moreover, 12 of them - at the World Championships. Pele scored six goals at the 1958 World Cup, four goals at the 1970 World Cup, and one more at the 1962 World Cup and 1966 World Cup. Also, some sources attribute Pele another 22 unofficial matches, in which he scored another 18 goals. And if you summarize all the data, you get an incredible indicator of the legendary scorer - 1283 goals, which were scored in only 1366 matches over the entire career.