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Pelé do Nascimento against the field

13 categories, one sample: Pelé do Nascimento against 199 of the most recognizable footballers in DailyFoot's data. Every card shows the whole field's distribution with Pelé do Nascimento pinned inside it.

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0.837goals per cap
92Caps
77Goals
13Categories ranked
International years1957–1971 (15)
PositionMidfielder
Notable clubs3
Major trophies3
Born1940

Every ranking here is drawn from the same sample: DailyFoot's 199 most recognizable footballers, using the caps, goals, career years and honours in the game's own data.

Scoring rates

Goals measured against appearances, seasons and the era the player scored them in.

01 · Scoring

Pelé do Nascimento: Goals per cap

International goals divided by international appearances. The purest scoring rate this data can support, and the number pundits mean by "goals-per-game ratio". Players under 20 caps are left out: a ratio over a handful of matches ranks first and means nothing.

0.837 goals per cap Top 2% #4 of 198 · sample median 0.243
0.243 Pelé do Nascimento 0.837 0.000 1.097
  1. #2Erling Haaland1.000
  2. #3Ferenc Puskás0.988
  3. #4Pelé do Nascimento0.837
  4. #5Romário Faria0.786
  5. #6Alfredo Di Stéfano0.742
02 · Scoring

Pelé do Nascimento: Caps per goal

How many international appearances the player needed for each goal they scored. The same fact as goals per cap, read the way a scouting note phrases it: lower is more lethal.

1.19 caps per goal Lowest 2% #4 of 180 · sample median 3.88
3.88 Pelé do Nascimento 1.19 0.91 76.00
  1. #2Erling Haaland1.00
  2. #3Ferenc Puskás1.01
  3. #4Pelé do Nascimento1.19
  4. #5Romário Faria1.27
  5. #6Alfredo Di Stéfano1.35
03 · Scoring

Pelé do Nascimento: Goals per international season

International goals spread across the years between a first and last cap. It rewards scoring a lot in a short window, which a per-cap rate hides: two players on the same ratio can be ten years apart in how fast they got there.

5.13 goals per season Top 5% #10 of 198 · sample median 1.68
1.68 Pelé do Nascimento 5.13 0.00 7.56
  1. #8Romelu Lukaku5.47
  2. #9Gary Lineker5.33
  3. #10Pelé do Nascimento5.13
  4. #11Miroslav Klose5.07
  5. #12Didier Drogba5.00
04 · Scoring

Pelé do Nascimento: Era-adjusted goal rate

Goals per cap divided by the average goals per cap of everyone in this sample who debuted in the same decade. 1.00 is exactly average for the era, 2.00 is twice as prolific as the players they actually played against. Scoring rates fell as the game professionalised, so this is the fairest way to put a 1950s forward next to a modern one.

1.80 × their era's average Top 16% #32 of 198 · sample median 0.89
0.89 Pelé do Nascimento 1.80 0.00 3.67
  1. #31Raúl González1.81
  2. #32Michael Ballack1.80
  3. #32Pelé do Nascimento1.80
  4. #34Edinson Cavani1.78
  5. #35Thierry Henry1.74

Career shape

When the career started, how long it ran, and how densely it was played.

07 · Longevity

Pelé do Nascimento: Caps per season

Appearances divided by the seasons between a first and last cap: how relentlessly a player was picked while they were in the squad, rather than how long they lasted. Fixture calendars grew over the decades, so the leaders here are almost all modern.

6.13 caps per season Bottom 26% #147 of 198 · sample median 7.50
7.50 Pelé do Nascimento 6.13 2.00 10.60
  1. #146Giorgio Chiellini6.16
  2. #147Kaká Leite6.13
  3. #147Pelé do Nascimento6.13
  4. #149Michael Laudrup6.12
  5. #150Ousmane Dembélé6.09

Silverware and recognition

Trophies won, trophies per appearance, and how widely the player is written about.

11 · Silverware and fame

Pelé do Nascimento: Major trophies

World Cups, continental titles, Nations Leagues, Olympic golds and European Cups/Champions Leagues added together. Domestic leagues and cups are not in this data, so this counts the honours the game itself asks about, not a full trophy cabinet.

3 trophies Top 16% #33 of 199 · sample median 1
1 Pelé do Nascimento 3 0 8
  1. #33Jordi Alba3
  2. #33Ousmane Dembélé3
  3. #33Pelé do Nascimento3
  4. #33Pepe Reina3
  5. #33Raúl González3
12 · Silverware and fame

Pelé do Nascimento: Trophies per 100 caps

Major trophies scaled to a hundred appearances: silverware rate rather than silverware total, which stops a long career from automatically outranking a decorated short one.

3.26 per 100 caps Top 19% #39 of 198 · sample median 1.29
1.29 Pelé do Nascimento 3.26 0.00 20.00
  1. #37Sergio Busquets3.50
  2. #38Cristiano Ronaldo3.43
  3. #39Pelé do Nascimento3.26
  4. #40Jordi Alba3.23
  5. #41Manuel Neuer3.13
13 · Silverware and fame

Pelé do Nascimento: Wikipedia languages per cap

How many Wikipedia language editions cover the player, divided by their caps. A rough measure of fame earned per appearance: high means the world knows them for something other than turning up a lot.

1.97 languages per cap Top 7% #14 of 198 · sample median 0.89
0.89 Pelé do Nascimento 1.97 0.43 3.70
  1. #11Pep Guardiola2.02
  2. #13Paulo Dybala1.98
  3. #14Pelé do Nascimento1.97
  4. #15Diego Maradona1.91
  5. #16Juan Mata1.80

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