Pele’s World Cup records
• Pele is the youngest scorer, youngest hat-trick scorer, youngest finalist and youngest player to score in a Final in FIFA World Cup history.
• Gunnar Gren, who competed against Brazil in the 1958 decider, made his Sweden debut before Pele was born. Never has such an age gap — 20 years — existed between opponents in a World Cup Final.
• Pele, is one of four men (the others being Uwe Seeler, Miroslav Klose, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi) to score at four or more World Cups.
• Vava, Pele, Paul Breitner, Zinedine Zidane and Kylian Mbappé are the only players to have scored in two World Cup Finals.
• Pele registered six assists at Mexico 1970 – a record for one World Cup. Four players managed five: Robert Gadocha at Germany 1974, Pierre Littbarski at Spain 1982, Diego Maradona at Mexico 1986 and Thomas Hassler at USA 1994. Pele also recorded an unprecedented three assists in deciders: one against Sweden in 1958 and two against Italy in 1970.
