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Pelé

Pelé

Edson Arantes do Nascimento, who is better known as Pelé ( who was born on either October 21 or 23, 1940), is a retired Brazilian footballer who is widely regarded to be the best football player of all time. In 1999, he was voted World Player of the Century by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS). The same year, France Football consulted their former Ballon D'Orwinners to elect the Football Player of the Century, selecting Pelé. In 1999, Pelé was elected Athlete of the Century by the IOC, and Time named him in their list of 100 most influential people of the 20th century. In 2013 he received the FIFA Ballon d'Or Prix d'Honneur in recognition of his career and achievements as a global icon of football.

According to the IFFHS, Pelé is the most successful league goal scorer in the world, with 541 league goals. In total Pelé scored 1281 goals in 1363 games, including unofficial friendlies and tour games, for which he was listed in the Guinness World Records for most career goals scored in football. During his playing days, Pelé was for a period the best-paid athlete in the world. In his native Brazil, he is hailed as a national hero, for his accomplishments in football, and for his vocal support of policies to improve the social conditions of the poor. In 1961, Brazil President Jânio Quadros had Pelé declared a national treasure. During his career, he became known as "The Black Pearl" (Pérola Negra), "The King of Football" (O Rei do Futebol), "The King Pelé" (O Rei Pelé) or simply "The King" (O Rei).
Pelé began playing for Santos at 15 and the Brazil national football team at 16. He won three FIFA World Cups; 1958, 1962 and 1970, the only player ever to do so, and is the all-time leading goalscorer for Brazil with 77 goals in 92 games. At club level he is also the record goalscorer for Santos, and led them to the 1962 and 1963 Copa Libertadores. Pelé’s electrifying play and penchant for spectacular goals made him a star around the world, and his club team Santos toured internationally in order to take full advantage of his popularity.

Since retiring in 1977, Pelé has been a worldwide ambassador for football and has undertaken various acting roles and commercial ventures. In 2010, he was named the Honorary President of the New York Cosmos.

Honours

Country


Brazil
  • Roca Cup: 1957, 1963
  • FIFA World Cup:
    • Winner: 1958
    • Winner: 1962
    • Winner: 1970
  • Copa América:
    • Runner-up: 1959
  • Cruz Cup: 1958, 1962, 1968
  • Bernardo O'Higgins Cup: 1959
  • Atlantic Cup: 1960
  • Oswaldo Cruz Cup: 1958, 1962, 1968

Club

Santos
  • Copa Libertadores (2): 1962, 1963
  • Intercontinental Supercup (1): 1968
  • Supercopa de Campeones Intercontinentales (1): 1968
  • Intercontinental Cup (2): 1962, 1963
  • Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (6): 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1968
  • Torneio Rio-São Paulo (4): 1959, 1963, 1964, 1966
  • Campeonato Paulista (10): 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973
New York Cosmos
  • North American Soccer League, Soccer Bowl (1): 1977
  • North American Soccer League, Atlantic Conference Championship (1): 1977
In total Pelé has 40 official titles.

Individual


  • Santos
    • Intercontinental Cup: All-Time Leading Scorer
    • Copa Libertadores Top Scorer (1): 1965.
    • Campeonato Brasileiro Série A Top Scorer (3): 1961, 1963, 1964.
    • Campeonato Paulista Top Scorer (11): 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1973.
    • Torneio Rio-São Paulo Top Scorer (1): 1963.
  • Brazil
    • Copa América Top Scorer (1): 1959.
    • Brazil National Team All-Time Leading Scorer, 95 goals
  • FIFA World Cup (Best Young Player):
    • Winner (1): 1958
  • FIFA World Cup (Silver Boot): 1958
  • FIFA World Cup Silver Ball: 1958
  • FIFA World Cup Golden Ball (Best Player):
    • Winner (1): 1970
  • Copa America Best Player: 1959
  • FIFA Ballon d'Or Prix d'Honneur: 2013
  • Guinness World Records: Most career goals (football): 1283 goals in 1363 games.
  • Guinness World Records: Most World Cup Winners’ Medals.
  • International Federation of Football History and Statistics(IFFHS): World´s most successful Top Division Goal Scorer: 541 goals
  • All time Top Scorer in one calendar year: 127 goals(1959)
  • World record number of hat tricks: 92
  • BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality:
    • Winner (1): 1970
  • BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award:
    • Winner (1): 2005
  • Greatest football player to have ever played the game, by Golden Foot: 2012
  • Athlete of the Century, by Reuters News Agency: 1999
  • Athlete of the Century, elected by International Olympic Committee: 1999
  • Athlete of the Century, elected by world wide journalists, poll by French daily L'Equipe: 1981
  • South American Footballer of the Year: 1973
  • Inducted into the American National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1993.
  • Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire: 1997
  • In 1989 DPR Korea issued a postage stamp depicting Pelé.
  • UNICEF Football Player of the Century: 1999
  • TIME One of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century: 1999
  • FIFA Player of the Century : 2000
  • Football Player of the Century, elected by France Football's Ballon d'Or Winners : 1999
  • Football Player of the Century, by IFFHS International Federation of Football History and Statistics: 1999
  • South America Football Player of the Century, by IFFHS International Federation of Football History and Statistics: 1999
  • Laureus World Sports Awards Lifetime Achievement Award from South African President Nelson Mandela: 2000
  • FIFA World Cup All-Time Team: 1994
  • World Team of the 20th Century: 1998
  • FIFA World Cup Dream Team: 2002
  • World Soccer Greatest XI of all time: 2013
In December 2000, Pelé and Maradona shared the prize of FIFA Player of the Century by FIFA. The award was originally intended to be based upon votes in a web poll, but after it became apparent that it favoured Diego Maradona, many observers complained that the Internet nature of the poll would have meant a skewed demographic of younger fans who would have seen Maradona play, but not Pelé. FIFA then appointed a "Family of Football" committee of FIFA members to decide the winner of the award together with the votes of the readers of the FIFA Magazine. The committee chose Pelé. Since Maradona was winning the Internet poll, however, it was decided he and Pelé should share the award.
  • Honorary degree from the University of Edinburgh celebrating Pelé’s "significant contribution to humanitarian and environmental causes, as well as his sporting achievements": 2012
  • Prize from the French Academy of Sports, Award given to a player of a team sport for the very first time: 1971
  • Red Medal of Paris, Given by the City Hall of the French Capital: 1971
  • Sword of Soccer Honor, Given by the English Soccer Annual. The sword was handmade by the Queen’s weapon manufacturers. Pelé was the first ever non-British person to receive this award: 1966
  • Knight of the Legion d’Honneur of France, Award given by the French Government: 1963

Career statistics

Club


Pelé dribbling past a defender during Malmö FF–Brazil 1–7 in May 1960. Pelé scored 2 goals.
Pelé's goalscoring record is often reported by FIFA among others as being 1281 goals in 1363 games. This figure includes goals scored by Pelé in friendly club matches, for example, international tours Pelé completed with Santos and the New York Cosmos, and a few games Pelé played in for armed forces teams during his national service in Brazil.
The tables below record every goal Pelé scored in major club competitions for Santos and the New York Cosmos. During much of Pelé's playing career in Brazil there was no national league championship. From 1960 onwards the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) were required to provide meritocratic entrants for the then-new Copa Libertadores, a South American international club competition broadly equivalent to the European Cup. To enable them to do this, the CBF organised two national competitions: the Taça de Prata and Taça Brasil. A national league championship, the Campeonato Brasileiro, was first played in 1971, alongside traditional state and interstate competitions such as the Campeonato Paulista and the Torneio Rio-São Paulo.
The number of league goals scored by Pelé for Santos and New York Cosmos is listed as 656 in 702 games, which is a world record for League competitions. This number is the sum of the goals scored by Pelé in domestic league-based competitions: the Campeonato Paulista (SPS), Torneio Rio-São Paulo (RSPS), Taça de Prata and Campeonato Brasileiro. The Taça Brasil was a national competition organised on a knockout basis.
ClubSeasonDomestic competitionsDomestic competitions
subtotal		International club
competitions		Official
total		Total inc.
friendlies
SPSRSPSTRGPSérie ATBCPIC
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Santos195600000022
1957293695384138416757
1958385888466646666080
1959324576423951435383100
1960303330003333000033336659
19612647785733550000386274110
1962263700522637442537485267
19631922814482736451236515266
1964213443672537000031444757
1965304975423754780048646697
1966141300521413--0019153831
19671817149003226--0032266556
196821171711003828000038287355
1969252612123738--0037386157
19701571342811000028115447
197119821140900004097229
19722091653614000036147450
1973191130194930000049306652
19741011792710000027104519
Total412470534956368434333063861915173765664311151088
ClubSeasonLeaguePost seasonOtherTotal
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
NY Cosmos197595--14102315
197622132218114226
19772513641164223
Total563186432710764

National team

Pelé is the top scorer of the Brazil national football team with 77 goals in 92 official appearances. In addition, he has scored 18 times in 21 unofficial games. This makes an unofficial total of 113 games and 95 goals. He has also scored 12 goals and is credited with 10 assists in 14 World Cup appearances, including 4 goals and 7 assists in 1970. Pelé shares with Uwe Seeler and Miroslav Klose the achievement of being the only three footballers to have scored in four separate World Cup tournaments.
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