Lionel Messi beaten a few days ago Pelé’s goal record for the same club, 643 officials that the former player marked with Santos FC, your regular Brazilian team. However, the star Canarinho still scored many goals, although in friendly matches. They are specifically 448 targets in informal matches.
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” Pelé scored 1,091 goals for Santos. In the accounts of the specialized press, the king of football scored 643 in competitions and the 448 goals scored in friendly matches and competitions were ostracized, as if they had a lower value than the others “, he announced santos Through his website, making sure that the Argentine did not break the record of his top star.
The Brazilian team insists that Skin still holds the record for scoring the most goals with the same shirt and this statistic is not held by Lion 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 scored with the Santos Futebol Clube shirt. According to some statistics, the Argentine Lionel Messi (Barcelona) became the player with the most goals for the same club, reaching 644 goals for the Catalan club, excluding the friendly matches, called by some as official goals “, says the text that Fernando Ribeiro, who identifies himself as a member of the Association of Researchers and Historians of Santos FC.
448 goals that today they are trying to disqualify, they scored against famous clubs: “America (Mexico) and Colo Colo (Chile) each suffered nine goals from Pelé. Internazionale Milano, one of the top teams in Europe in the 1960s, suffered eight more goals from King. The list is huge and has 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 the 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 were played against fragile opponents, such as small teams or regional teams. Even so, the matches were played in an official uniform, with the official rules of the game and the minutes. We must remember that the clubs could play friendly matches only with the approval of the regional and national federations, one of the rules imposed by FIFA, the organizer of world football “, the communiqué added.
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” Taking into account subjective attributes, such as the weakness of opponents, is not ideal for compiling statistical data. 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 Santiago Bernabéu center “, said the text that was also distributed by the official Santos networks.
Count goals in friendly matches
Regardless of this situation, the Brazilian distribution insisted on detailing the various issues in their extended report, in which they also try to count the goals in friendlies. There, he warns that after winning the 1958 Canarinha World Cup title, the friendly has become a “source of income to keep the main players here”, including Pepe, Zito, Coutinho and Pelé. above.
They also explain that the footballers spent more days with the national team than today: “Without the so-called ‘FIFA meetings’, the clubs gave their athletes long periods of time to prepare for the World Cup. Pelé did not play for Santos for more than two months in 1962, 1966, 1969 and 1970. ”