Lionel Messi hit a few days ago Pelé’s goal record for the same club, the 643 referees that the former player has marked with the Santos FC, your usual team in Brazil. However, the Canarinho star scored many more goals, albeit in friendly matches. They are specific 448 goals in unofficial matches.
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Pelé scored 1,091 goals for Santos. In the reports of the specialist press, the King of Soccer scored 643 in competitions and the 448 goals scored in matches and friendly competitions were excluded, as if they had less value than the others, ” the Santos Make sure that the Argentinian does not break the record of his top star via his website.
The Brazilian team insists Skin still holds the record for scoring the most goals with the same jersey and that statistic is not owned by Leo in the Barcelona entity.
In recent days there has been a lot of talk in the press and on social networks about the number of goals that Pelé has scored with the Santos Futebol Clube shirt. According to some statistics, Argentinian Lionel Messi (Barcelona) became the player with the most goals for the same club, scoring 644 goals for the Catalan club, excluding friendlies, which have been cited by some as official goals, ” the text indicates. firm Fernando Ribeiro, who self-identifies as a member of the Santos FC Association of Researchers and Historians.
The 448 goals that they are trying to disqualify today, they scored against renowned clubs: ” América (Mexico) and Colo Colo (Chile) each suffered nine goals from Pelé. Internazionale Milan, one of the best teams in Europe in the 1960s, got eight more goals from the king. The list is immense and with important participants: River Plate, Boca Juniors, Racing, University of Chile, Real Madrid, Juventus, Lazio, Napoli, Benfica and Anderlecht. Barcelona itself, where Messi plays, was also a victim of Pelé: four goals, scored in four games. ”
The argument of some analysts is that many of these 448 goals scored in friendly matches faced vulnerable opponents, such as small teams or regional teams. Nevertheless, the games were played in an official uniform, with the official rules and the minutes. We should not forget that clubs could only play friendly matches with the approval of the regional and national federations, one of the rules imposed by FIFA, the organizer of world football, ” the statement added.
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Taking into account subjective characteristics, such as the weakness of opponents, is not ideal for collecting statistics. The numbers are absolute. A goal against Eibar is statistically the same as a goal against Valencia. A goal against Transvaal (from Suriname) has the same value as a goal scored against Real Madrid, in the center of the Santiago Bernabéu, ” said the text also shared by Santos’ official networks.
Count goals in friendly matches
Regardless of this situation, the Brazilian cast insisted on elaborating on various topics in their comprehensive report, in which they also want to count goals in friendly matches. There they warn that after winning the title the ‘Canarinha’ took in the 1958 World Cup, the friendlies became a ‘source of income to keep key players here’, including Pepe, Zito, Coutinho and the aforementioned Pelé.
They also explain that footballers have spent more days with the national team than today: “Without the so-called ‘FIFA dates’, the clubs gave their athletes a long time to prepare for the World Cup. Pelé played for more than two months. not for Santos in 1962, 1966, 1969 and 1970. ”