1000 goals when he played against fire fighters team and stuff like that ???..
not sure of offside rule existed during his early football careers..
yes pele won 3 world cup(some say 2 btw) but he didn't play big role in them(like football eye witnesses fans said...unlike messi he lead his argentina team to final phaze in 2014 and was considered best player in wc 2014...NOT MESSI'S FAULT HERE...HE DID HIS BEST!!!!
what about ballon dors he won ...more then 4..and he will still win 6 7 8..he has qualities to acheive that even at 33 years age...
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Even counting official games only Pele still has far better goal ratio than Messi , both are top 10 dribblers in history but Pele is better striker overall.
If scoring was that easy at that time answer me why other players of that time didn´t score similar number of goals like Pele did . Why among hundred players only Pele scored above 1 000 goals ????????????
Nobody cares about butthurt excuses Pele scored in both world cup finals he played and won both world cups. Messi was also never top scorer of any world cup he played and never won single one. Pele did win 3 world cup he played 2 games and scored 1 goal in 1962 everything else is just haters excuse.
I like how in that article in number 4 author is asking " where is Pele " . He is only player in world with 3 world cups something author choose to simply ignore.
Offside rule did exist dont spread nonsense only thing that was different was that there was not red card so opposition defenders were free to use dangerous tackles without any fear of red card.
When Messi finishes his carrear he will never reach Pele guinness world record and even if you want to count just official games Messi will still have worse goal ratio per game.
Fact that Pele won 3 world cups and Messi didn´t even single one makes this debate further pointless about Greatest of all time.
Opinions are subjective but statictic never lies Pele is GOAT .
I am not Pele fan but simply stating facts.