5 Greatest Goals of All Time - that were never scored

4. Pelé (BRAZIL vs Uruguay)

There’s something about the feeling that seeing something completely new, something completely novel, engenders. There were very few footballers who engendered that feeling quite like Edson Arantes de Nascimento. The man you and I know as Pelé.

He also did them with a natural, supple grace that may as well be used in the dictionary to define the term ‘football aesthetics’. He may have scored 1208 goals (as per him, and he counts every single goal he has ever scored even in games held in his back-garden) but his most beautiful was arguably the one that didn’t go in. Uruguay’s Ladislao Mazurkiewicz had absolutely no idea what was happening here - he couldn't believe it, and neither did the watching world.