Record Breakers No.2 – Pele’s Goalscoring Records
Pele was one of the greatest players ever to play the game. He holds many individual records, including winning the World Cup three times. No other player in the history of the game has achieved this accomplishment.
The records that I’m going to concentrate on in this article are his incredible goalscoring feats.
To put it simply, Pele was a goal machine. He scored an incredible 1279 goals in 1363 games over the course of his 21 years as a player.
He scored 77 goals in 92 games for Brazil. He also played several unofficial games for the Selecao; if they were added to his record, his international tally would stand at 95 goals in 114.
He spent eighteen years at Santos in his native Brazil. 541 goals in 560 top-flight games in his time at Santos is a record in Brazil.
Pele moved to the New York Cosmos of the American Soccer League in 1975 at a time when major European players were moving out to play in the States.
In the three years at the Cosmos, Pele scored 64 times in 107 games, playing alongside fellow Brazilian Carlos Alberto, German legend Franz Beckenbauer and Italian Giorgio Chinaglia.
Another incredible statistic is Pele’s record of hat-tricks in his career. He scored an incredible 92 trebles, which added 276 goals to his tally. The most famous of these had to be in the 1958 World Cup Final against Sweden when he was only seventeen years old!
Pele quite rightly is regarding as one of the all-time greats. His goalscoring feats will never be broken but Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo will run him close.
There is an article about Pele that featured last month on his 80th birthday. You can read that article here.
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