Pele / Messi / Yamal (9/20) 9.5

🌍 World Cup Success (Unmatched)

• 3× FIFA World Cup Champion: 1958, 1962, 1970 — the only player in history to win three

• Youngest World Cup winner ever (17 years old) – 1958

• Scored 2 goals in the 1958 final

• Star of the legendary 1970 Brazil team, considered the greatest team ever assembled

🥅 Goal Scoring Records

• 1,279 goals in 1,363 matches (including friendlies)

• 767 official goals – long considered the most in history before Messi and Ronaldo

• Brazil national team:
  

  • 77 goals in 92 matches (still tied as Brazil’s all-time leading scorer)

• Santos FC:
  

  • 643 goals in 659 matches

🏆 Club Career – Santos FC (1956–1974)

• 6× Brazilian League titles

• 2× Copa Libertadores champion (1962, 1963)

• 2× Intercontinental Cups (defeated Benfica and AC Milan)

• Turned Santos into a global superpower

• So famous that Brazilian civil wars paused so people could watch him play

🇺🇸 New York Cosmos (1975–1977)

• Helped popularize soccer in the United States

• NASL Champion (1977)

• Played a key role in growing the sport in North America

🏅 Individual Honors

• FIFA Player of the Century (shared with Maradona)

• World Cup Golden Ball – 1970

• Time Magazine: 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century

• Knighted by Brazil, UNESCO ambassador, global humanitarian icon

1962 Cebede Pele