Pele, a Brazilian superstar, set several records that are tough for any player to match, including Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, the best team of the past 15 years.
Here are 5 records that bear Pele’s signature and are challenging for Messi and Ronaldo to surpass:
Out of the five World Cup championships Selsao won throughout his career, Pele is the only football player to have done it with Brazil three times (1958, 1962, and 1970).
With 1283 goals from 1363 games, Pele has the most goals in the annals of football.
A challenging percentage to reduce, the samba icon scored 92 hat-tricks out of a total of 1283 goals, or 21.5%.
Pele, who scored three goals for Brazil in the 1958 World Cup at the age of 17 and 244 days, holds the record for the youngest player to score in a World Cup.
– At the age of 17, he became the youngest player to score in a World Cup final, in the 1958 edition, after scoring twice in a 5/2 Samba victory.
Messi and Ronaldo have difficulty breaking three of the most illustrious world cup records that were set in Pele’s honour.
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