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In the South American Football Championship, Pelé scored six goals in eight appearances, all during the 1959 edition. [18] Although Brazil were runners-up, he was the top scorer and was named best player of the tournament. [19] Pelé scored one goal in the 1962 FIFA World Cup and one in the 1966 edition. [1]
With 77 goals in 92 official appearances, [note 2] Pelé is the second highest goalscorer of the Brazil national football team. [83] He scored twelve goals and is credited with ten assists in fourteen World Cup appearances, including four goals and seven assists in 1970. [24]
RSSSF credits Bican with 948 goals, a tally which includes goals scored in winter tournaments, as well as when selected to represent regional and city teams, [17] and the Football Association of the Czech Republic claims a total of 821. [18] [19] Spanish newspapers Marca and Sport state that both Bican and Pelé scored 762 goals.
FILE - Brazil's soccer legend Pele attends the opening of an exhibit about his life titled King's Marks, in Brasilia, Brazil, June 25, 2008. ... list Pelé’s goal totals anywhere between 650 ...
Pele, widely regarded as the best footballer to have graced the game, was a prodigious scorer of goals, and is credited with 1,281 of them across the length of his career by the official Fifa website.
The goal that put the 31-year-old Neymar on the top of Brazil’s scoring record with 78 came in the 61st minute in a World Cup qualifying match against Bolivia in the Amazon city of Belém. It ...
The 1958 final holds the record for most goals scored in a World Cup Final, and it shares the record for the greatest winning margin (with the 1970 and 1998 tournaments). The records for both the youngest and oldest goalscorer in a World Cup final were set in this match by Pelé (17 years and 249 days) and Nils Liedholm (35 years, 263 days ...
He began playing for soccer club Santos at 15 years old. Officially, Pelé scored 757 goals in 831 games from 1957 to 1977, although Santos maintain his record was closer to 1,000.