– Several times I was very close to signing a contract with Real Madrid, and once received a serious offer from Napoli and I was on the verge of the initialling of the agreement. Do you regret that it did not happen? No, because I played in FC Santos, the club was an international power – said the three-time world champion, who in his career scored 1283 goals in 1367 matches (according to his autobiography, because other sources say the number of 1,284 goals in 1,356 meetings).
in 1956, he was player of FC Santos, who remained faithful to 1974. His career continued in New York Cosmosie (1975-1976) . In the World Cup finals he scored 12 goals for Brazil, and the total for the national team obtained 77 goals in 91 matches (1957-1971).
Brazilian declared in a survey of the French newspaper “L’Equipe” the best athlete of the twentieth century in a poll of the magazine “World Soccer” in 1999, the best player of the last century, believes that in the current football too few stars of fame internationally. He sees only two players recognized around the globe – Argentine Leo Messi and Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo.
– We Messi and Ronaldo. Try replacing another three or four other names of world stars, symbols of football – he said to the AP journalist conducting the interview. You can not, that’s it. We need – for the good of football – other players of such stature who rzuciliby challenge those two – he added, “The King of football.”
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