Diego Maradona and Pele are considered two of the greatest footballers in history – but how do their goals and assists numbers stack up against one another? The two legends have long set the benchmark ...

March 14 (Reuters) - Cristiano Ronaldo hailed Pele after he surpassed the Brazilian great's goal-scoring haul in official matches by netting a hat-trick in Juventus' 3-1 Serie A win over Cagliari on ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil great Neymar received a plaque for becoming the team’s all-time leading goal-scorer in official matches in the early hours of Saturday. However, the language used to describe ...

Lionel Messi has broken Pele's all-time record for goals scored with a single club by netting his 644th career goal for Barcelona. The Brazilian icon netted 643 times for Santos in his career, a mark ...

Cristiano Ronaldo is now 41 and Lionel Messi isn’t far off 40, but they are still scoring goals for fun as the GOAT debate ...

With five World Cup wins the Selecao has an unmatched prestige in international football, and have also boasted some of the game's greatest players Few nations, if any, can match Brazil's storied past ...

But he still has some way to go to hit the magical thousand goals reached by Pele 50 years ago, also with a penalty. In fact, Pele was not the first man, or even the first Brazilian, to score a ...