Messi has scored 919 goals, 405 assist, won 8 Ballon d’ors, 6 golden boots, 1 world cup, and 2 world cup golden balls.
Don’t mind me, I’m just leaving online evidence for my grand children.
Pelé scored a total of 1,283 goals throughout his career, but many of those came in matches that were not official and are not recognized by FIFA.
If we’re talking about officially recognized matches, Pelé scored 757 official goals in 831 matches. That’s why he congratulated Ronaldo.
The other post says “1,283 goals in my life.” That total includes friendly matches, community games, pre-season matches, exhibition games, and tour matches.
According to Pelé’s Wikipedia page, he played for only two clubs during his career: Santos and New York Cosmos. He played 583 matches for Santos and scored 569 goals, while for New York Cosmos, he played 64 matches and scored 37 goals. For Brazil, he scored 77 goals in 92 matches. That brings his official total from those appearances to 683 goals. Even Wikipedia cannot account for many of the goals included in his lifetime tally because they came in unofficial matches.
In 1961, the Brazilian President declared Pelé a National Treasure at just 20 years old, effectively preventing him from leaving Brazil for much of his career. The government frequently used him for diplomatic and tourism-related purposes, which led to him playing numerous exhibition matches.
During that period, Pelé played exhibition matches against teams such as Nigeria, during the Nigerian Civil War, Accra Hearts of Oak, Real Madrid, and Al Nassr, among others. Those matches are not considered official fixtures and therefore do not count toward his official goal tally.
Pelé is reported to have played in over 532 exhibition matches. I’ve attached images from some of those games, including Pelé vs. Accra Hearts of Oak, Real Madrid, Nigeria, and Al Nassr.
This is the simple point some people are failing to understand. At this stage, some Messi and Barcelona fans are simply being delusional. Collectively, they’ve declared war on common sense and the rest of us shouldn’t be expected to stand in its way.