retired_justin05

Only one guy in the whole league though.

retired_jdupont

Not Pelé's case though.

He played in the, back them, 3-time World Champion country, not in Eskimoland.

And all his goals are well-documented, so they are not even controversial, like say Friedenreich (his family claims he scored more goals than Pelé, but only 450 of his goals can be found in documents, official sources, newspapers, etc...).

retired_hinchmaa

Pele didn't really score 1,000 top flight goals though did he.

retired_justin05

Doesn't matter if it was a 3 times WC country or not. Scoring in Brazil always been easier than say scoring in Italy. Brazilians famous for not being able to defend and the keepers can't handle crosses either.

retired_gulkis

he scored about 400 of those goals in friendly matches according to wiki

retired_jdupont

Not all of his goals are top flight ones as they include goals for Brazil, Copa Libertadores, etc...

retired_jdupont

he scored about 400 of those goals in friendly matches according to wiki </BLOCKQUOTE>

So, more than 800 weren't scored in friendly games, which is very impressive.

retired_jdupont

Maybe our defenders never looked that good exactly because they had to play against such good strikers. :cool:

retired_jessicadon

So he scored over 1200 goals?

retired_gulkis

of course it's a great record. still a bit cheeky to bump it up by 50% with meaningless goals.