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Cristiano Ronaldo surpassed Pelé’s’ official ‘tally of all-time goals scored as he played a starring role in Juventus’ comfortable 4-1 win over Udinese, although it will likely be contested by former Brazilian club Santos.
Pelé’s number of goals in his career is widely contested, and Santos recently claimed that he had scored 1,091 goals for them, although his official tally appears to be 757. FIFA says the legendary forward scored 1,281 goals in 1,363 games, but this figure includes unofficial goals. matches.
Meanwhile, Ronaldo scored twice for the Serie A champions to pass to 758 career goals, just one behind Josef Bican’s all-time record of 759 … assuming Pelé never enters the picture again.
The 35-year-old opened the scoring with a signature shot, after holding on to Aaron Ramsey’s pass, in the 31st minute, before passing a perfect pass on the way from Federico Chiesa to score Juve’s second goal at four. minutes of the second half. .
The VAR had a very eventful evening in Turin. First, the referee was asked to consult the field monitor before ruling out what Udinese thought was the first goal from a handball from the start, before Aaron Ramsey suffered the same fate when he was penalized for handball, after a second look.
Ronaldo’s second goal left the result beyond question as he brought his goal tally to 14 league goals for the season, two more than anyone else in Serie A, in the 70th minute, with Marvin Zeegelaar scoring a consolation. in injury time for Udinese.
There was still time for Paulo Dybala to score another goal for Juventus, as Andrea Pirlo’s team was 10 points behind leaders AC Milan, with one game less, while Udinese fell to 13th place and have not won in their last four games.
