Pele: The strange and bizarre claims made by the three-time World Cup winner, including Neymar and Messi comments

Pele: The strange and bizarre claims made by the three-time World Cup winner, including Neymar and Messi comments
Pele is widely regarded as one of the best footballers to have ever played the game if not the best.He is still the only man to have won three World Cups and still holds the record for youngest player to feature in a final aged just 17.

Pele won the World Cup three times

The 78-year-old’s goal tally is the greatest in history with more than 1200 to his name, if you believe the man himself.His playing career was restricted to Brazil and America so his mystique and reputation always grew as not many had the chance to see him play compared to the modern day footballer. Pele has been known in his latter years to make some outlandish and weird claims, though, that range from the bizarre to the ridiculous.This week he issued one such claim on Twitter suggesting he had to leave an Elton John concert after being pointed out by the Watford honorary life president.

Happy birthday to Sir Elton John. I went to watch him live once. He pointed me out and I had to leave before the crowds got too big! // Feliz Aniversrio, @EltonOfficial. Quando fui a um show dele, e ele apontou para mim, tive que sair antes que a multido no ficasse grande. pic.twitter.com/tIN9SZ461f— Pel (@Pele) March 25, 2019

It’s one of many so here are some of the best of those claims.

Messi has one skill and he was better

The three-time World Cup winner criticised Lionel Messi in October last year by saying he is one-footed and cant be compared to him.

Messi is one of the greatest of all time

How can you make a comparison between a guy who heads the ball well, shoots with the left, shoots with the right and another who only shoots with one leg, only has one skill and doesnt head the ball well? he told Folha de Sao Paulo.

Neymar is an ordinary footballer

Back in 2013, Pele was not a fan of Neymar and launched a scathing attack on the forward for under-performing.For the national team, hes just an ordinary player, Pele told O Estado de Sao Paulo.

Pele has been critical of Neymar in the past

Hes got a huge responsibility and his greatest concern is to change his style, change his haircut.His opinions do seem to have changed over time and he claimed last year that Neymar was better than Messi and Ronaldo.

The crying goalkeeper

Once, in a match in Senegal, the goalkeeper cried so much after I scored that he had to be substituted! He had lost a big bet! // Em uma partida em Senegal, eu lembro que o goleiro chorou tanto depois do gol que ele teve que ser substitudo. Ele perdeu uma grande aposta! pic.twitter.com/OXjeg8ApIj— Pel (@Pele) February 25, 2019

Blatter is the best man for Fifa

When Sepp Blatter was up for a fifth term as Fifa president in 2015, Pele gave him his backing.His reasoning was that he was the candidate with the most experience despite crisis engulfing the organisation.He said: I was in favour. It was necessary because it is better to have people with experience. Hes a man who has been there for 25 years, you have to respect him, it was an election.

The former Fifa president Sepp Blatter

Peles claimed goal tally

The 78-year-old claims to have scored 1283 goals during his career but Fifa only recognises 784 of them.The other 526 came in unofficial friendlies and tour games.In comparison, Messi has a total of 677 goals for club and country during his career.

The referee who sent himself off

I once got sent off in a game against Colombia. The decision was so unpopular with the crowd that the referee then sent himself off! // Certa vez eu joguei contra a Colmbia e o rbitro me expulsou. A deciso foi to impopular com a torcida que ele tambm teve que sair de campo! pic.twitter.com/KaR5CyDZfJ— Pel (@Pele) August 23, 2018

His most famous goal that theres no footage of

The favourite goal of his career was one he scored in 1959 as an 18-year-old against Atletico Juventus but it was not captured on camera.Instead, an animated version of the goal was recreated based upon his description.

Nicky Barmby to be a world star

Pele predicted that Barmby would be up there with Zidane, Maldini and Ronaldo when he was just 21-years-old.He went on to make just 23 international appearances and never played at a World Cup.

Nii Lamptey prediction

Pele suggested Lamptey would be his natural successor after watching him play in 1989.His career took on a nomadic existence and he played for 13 clubs during his career but only played around 169 games.

Nii Lamptey on loan at Aston Villa

His World Cup predictions

If Pele chooses you to do well at the World Cup, then its bad news.He predicted Spain to win the 1998 competition but went out in the group stages.For the 2002 World Cup, he said Argentina and France would reach the final but both were eliminated in the first round.He also said Brazil would not get out of the group stages but they won the whole tournament.Pele also claimed that an African nation would win the World Cup before 2000, and we are still waiting for a team to reach the semi-final.Cameroon, Ghana and Senegal have all reached the quarters but not got any further.

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