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The Portuguese forward scored two goals in Juventus’ victory over Udinese and was again among those who, in theory, would have ‘surpassed’ Pelé
On the first Sunday of 2021, the football world revived the rumor about who would have scored the most goals in official matches. That’s because Cristiano Ronaldo led Juventus to a major victory over Udinese by scoring two goals. According to some accounts and statistics, CR7 is now the player who has scored the most goals in official matches.
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The truth is that messing with numbers that involve periods in which there was almost no formal registration and there was little transmission of matches makes the mission of finding the top scorer of ‘official matches’ in history very difficult.
This is because, according to some lists, such as the RSSSF, the top scorer in history is Josef Bican with 805 goals. However, there is no official confirmation of this past information and other statistics, such as that of the magazine. MarkerFor example, the Czech striker has 636 balls in the nets.
Therefore, targeting who has scored the most goals in so-called official matches is a very complicated and nebulous task. For example, the Futedados website and the RSSSF place Pelé with 767 official goals, while the statistician Rodolfo Rodrigues points out that the King brandished the nets 762 times according to this criterion. Such cases show the complexity of the mission, which is to mark with certainty the number of goals scored for older players.
To who objective, we follow the updated indexes practically every day, and we use the numbers of Marker published in April 2019. With that reference, then, Cristiano Ronaldo would surpass Pelé in number of goals scored in official matches, thus becoming the top scorer in the history of the ‘official games’.
Pelé scored, according to this account, 757 goals and Cristiano Ronaldo established on Sunday (3) the amount of 758 balls in the net. The illustrious list of the top 10 also includes names like Romário, Lionel Messi, Gerd Müller and many other legends of the world of soccer.
Part of the controversy over the goals scored by Pelé is in the former Brazilian National Championship, which was considered an official competition by the entity that regulated Brazilian sport at that time (the CBD). The six goals scored by the paulista team would lead the King of Soccer to 763 goals in official matches.
The obsession to surpass Pelé’s numbers seems to have become the great sensation and obsession of European football. A few days ago Lionel Messi passed the mark for the most goals scored by a single club, which belonged to the King, now it was Cristiano Ronaldo’s turn.
What is observed, however, is that Pelé is still the rule that is used to measure the importance of a current player in the context of football. Now when answering the question of who would be the best soccer scorer of all time, the only certainty remains uncertainty.
