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The Brazilian club Santos, on its website, published a statement refuting rumors that the Barça star, Lionel Messi, broke the record of the legendary player Pelé, for the number of goals in the ranks of a team.
Messi scored a goal in Barcelona’s 3-0 game against Valladolid, last Tuesday, to set the record for goals in a club (644 goals) that he shared with Pelé, who scored 1,091 goals in his entire career with Santos, but 643. Only of them were in official matches.
The Santos club said in its statement: “They are trying to cancel 448 goals, which the legend (Pelé) scored in official matches and tournaments against the strongest teams.”
The statement continued: “Club América (from Mexico) and Colo Colo (from Chile) each received 9 goals from Pelé. Italian Inter Milan, which was one of the most prominent European teams in the 1960s, received 8 goals of the king “.
The statement concludes: “The list of Pelé’s victims is enormous: River Plate, Boca Juniors, Racing, Universidad de Chile, Real Madrid, Juventus, Lazio, Napoli, Benfica, Anderlecht, and even Barcelona, where Messi plays, has fulfilled four goals for Pelé in four games. Some analysts argue that many of those 448 goals scored by Pelé in friendly matches were against weaker regional competitors, although the matches were played officially, with the official rules of the game and with data entered in the protocol.
Santos insists on the following position: taking into account subjective characteristics such as the weakness of rivals is not ideal for collecting statistics. The numbers speak for themselves. The goal against Eibar is equal to a goal against Valencia. The goal against Transvaal (from Suriname) has the same value as a goal against Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. “
It should be noted that despite the opinion of his former club, Pele had praised Messi, when he equaled his goalscoring record before breaking it, writing through his official account on the social network “Instagram”: “Congratulations on reaching a historical record Lionel, I congratulate you on your career. ” Successful professionalism with Barcelona, stories like ours of love for the club will be scarce ”.
Source: football.ua
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