Edson Arantes do Nascimento He left us last Thursday, December 29, a victim of colon cancer that weakened his entire immune system. However, His memory and legacy will live on for eternity.. And how to do it with one of the best players in the history of football and one of the very few to surpass the 1,000-goal barrier. Know in this note how many goals he scored Pele.
The top winner of World Cups, he won three with his team: Sweden 1958, Chile 1962 and Mexico 1970, he died at the age of 82 but had retired 45 years ago. He debuted in September 1956 and hung up his chimpunes in October 1977..
And throughout those little more than 20 years of his career, he scored a thousand goals, of all kinds: from the right, from the left, with his head, on play, from set pieces. Simply wonderful.
Pelé spent most of his career at the Santos club in Brazil (Photo: Lance)
HOW MANY GOALS DID PELÉ SCORE THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER?
It is estimated that Pele he scored just over 1250 goals in his careercounting matches at club and national team level, as well as official and friendly matches.
With the Saints of Brazilone of the two teams he played with throughout his career, in addition to the New York Cosmos from USA -where he ended up retiring-, in 15 games for the Copa Libertadores he scored 17 times.
In addition, in his three Intercontinental Cup matches (1962 and 1963), against European teams, he scored 7 times. Also, he noted 707 goals in 763 official matches at club level; that is, by points.
However, at the national team level, he participated in 92 games, scoring 77 goals, of which 12 were in 14 matches for World Cupsincluding three goals in two finals of that competition.
“O’Rei” with the “Verdeamarelha” (Photo: CBF)
THIS IS HOW MESSI AND CRISTIANO RONALDO SAY GOODBYE TO PELÉ
Once his death was known, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, the greatest exponents of football at this time, used their social networks to speak out.
“Rest in peace, Pele”was the brief message from the left-hander on his Instagram account, accompanied by a couple of images with the Brazilian.
For his part, CR7 wrote: “A simple ‘goodbye'” to the eternal King Pelé will never be enough to express the pain that the entire football world embraces at this moment (…) He will never be forgotten and his memory will last forever in each of us, football lovers. Rest in peace, King Pele.”.
