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Soccer had another historic day, and a very controversial one! Cristiano Ronaldo shook the net twice Udinese in victory of Juventus skin Italian Championship and he managed to surpass Pelé in official goals for clubs and teams. Now there are 758 of the Portuguese (in 1,035 games) against 757 of the King of Soccer (in only 815 games).
However, the accounts are not clear. And it is not even possible to say who is the greatest scorer of all time with exact precision.
There are two difficulties:
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It really counts all the goals of the older players
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Separating the so-called official goals from the goals scored in friendlies, not to mention the historical context, which ends up causing the stars of the past to ‘lose’ goals in a period when friendlies were sometimes more important than official matches.
Pelé, for example, appears with 767 goals in the list of the RSSSF, one of the most used sites for the use of this artillery data.
In the count, however, he has one goal for the Military National Team in 1959 and nine for the São Paulo National Team between 1959 and 1962, a period in which he defended Santos.
The “revision” eliminated these 10 goals, began to consider only the official goals of clubs (Santos and Cosmos) or Brazil and made Ronaldo tie the mark already on Sunday.
In theory, the two now share the third position on the list. Considering the RSSSF count, they are behind Romário (772 goals) and Josef Bican (805). But there is also another account that says that Bican leads with “only” 759 official goals, which would make Ronaldo the top scorer in history in the next goal he scores.
The RSSSF itself, however, says that it does not have enough official data for the numbers and assures that Bican can have more than 805 goals between his stage as a professional, between the distant years of 1931 and 1955.
Unofficial goals
There is still an important historical context to be carried out. As said, the stars of the past played in a completely different time than today, when friendlies had a very different importance than what we know now.
In the last month, for example, Santos spoke officially to defend that Pelé’s goals should be considered on these world tours. ESPN.com.br showed all the “ignored” goals of the King and showed that he scored some against the great clubs of the world, including Barcelona and Real Madrid.
On the total tally, Pelé has an incredible 1,283 goals scored.
Romário is another of those who crossed the thousandth barrier and has 1,002 goals in his career. And there are other names that claim to have done so, such as Túlio Maravilha.
