Lionel Messi beat a few days ago the Pelé’s goal record at the same club, the 643 officials who marked the former player with the shirt of the Santos FC, His usual team in Brazil. Nevertheless, the canarinho star marked many more goals, although in friendly parties. specifically they are 448 targets in unofficial matches.
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” Pelé scored 1,091 goals for the Saints. 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 condemned to ostracism, as if they had less value than the others ”, he announced the Santos through its website, ensuring that the Argentine did not break the record for his top star.
The Brazilian squad insists that Pell still holds the record for scoring more goals with the same shirt and that this statistic is not owned by Leo to the Barça entity.
” In recent days there has been a lot of talk in the press and on social media about the number of goals that Pelé has 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 friendlies, called by some as official goals ”, he indicates the text you sign Fernando Ribeiro, Who identifies himself as a member of the Association of Researchers and Historians of Sants FC.
the 448 goals who are trying to disqualify today, scored against renowned clubs: ” America (Mexico) and Colo Colo (Chile) conceded nine goals from Pelé each. Internazionale Milan, one of the leading teams in Europe in the 1960s, conceded eight more goals from Rey. The list is huge 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 were faced by fragile opponents, such as small teams or regional teams. However, the matches were played in official uniform, with the official rules of the game and with minutes. We must remember that the 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 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 the Transvaal (from Suriname) has the same value as a goal scored at Real Madrid, in the center of the Santiago Bernabéu ”, said the text that was also shared by the official networks of the Saints.
Account for goals in friendly matches
Regardless of this situation, the Brazilian team insisted on detailing different issues in its extensive report where they seek to also score goals in friendlies. There they warn that after winning the title won by the ‘canarinha’ at the 1958 World Cup, the friendlies became a ” source of income to keep the main players here ”, including Pepe , Zito, Coutinho and the aforementioned Pelé.
They also explain that the footballers spent more days with the National Team than at present: ” Without the so-called ‘FIFA dates’, the clubs gave their athletes for long periods of time to prepare for the World Cup. . Pelé did not play for Sants for more than two months in 1962, 1966, 1969 and 1970 ”.