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PELE Dead: Why Pele was so special? PELE won 3 FIFA World CUP titles, no player has ever done that: Check PELE’s TOP Football Moments
PELE’s TOP Football Moments – 3 FIFA World CUP TITLES:
1st World Cup Title in 1958 as 17 year old: The Pele World Cup story began in fairytale style in 1958. Brazil won the Jules Rimet trophy for the first time. The 17-year-old rookie, who had never travelled by plane before, thought his selection for the trip to Sweden was a MISTAKE.
- He became the youngest player ever at a World Cup.
- He scored six goals in four appearances – His haul included a semi-final treble against France and two in the final against the hosts.
- A hat-trick in his first World Cup: His first goal of the tournament – in the 1-0 quarter-final win over Wales – would be just a taster of what was to come in the semis, when he struck a second-half hat-trick to blow away France 5-2.
2nd TITLE came in 1962 & 3rd in 1970
Pele STATS: From RECORD Goals to 3 World Cup Triumphs with Barzil, Check out Pele’s legendary career in numbers
Factbox on the career statistics of former Brazil forward Pele, who has died at the age of 82:
* Won three World Cup titles with Brazil in 1958, 1962 and 1970 – the only player to have won the showpiece tournament three times.
* Became the youngest-ever player to win the World Cup trophy at 17, a record that still stands.
* Scored 757 goals in 812 official matches for club and country, a record that stood for decades until Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo eclipsed his tally.
* Brazil’s football association (CBF) and Santos say Pele scored a total of 1,283 goals in 1,367 matches while FIFA puts the figure at 1,281 goals in 1,366 games. Other sources give varying figures depending on the types of games included.
* Netted 77 goals in 92 official matches for Brazil – the country’s all-time leading goal scorer, alongside Neymar, who netted his 77th goal in the 2022 World Cup.
* Scored 12 goals in World Cups.
* Registered six assists at Mexico 1970 – a record for one World Cup.
* Scored 92 hat-tricks across official and unofficial games.
* Scored 127 goals for Santos in 1959, thought to be the most goals scored by a club player in one calendar year.
* Finished as Santos’ top scorer with 643 goals in 659 competitive matches.
* Won Brazil’s Serie A six times with Santos (1961-1965 and 1968).
* Led Santos to two Copa Libertadores titles (1962 and 1963).
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