Sachin Tendulkar's 24 years in cricket: 5 sports personalities who achieved similar greatness

Pele

To score more than a 1000 goals in your entire career is the stuff of legends, and Pele is definitely one. In a career spanning 21 years, he has scored as many as 1281 goals for both club and country. These goals came in a total of 1363 matches that he played for Brazil, Santos and the New York Cosmos.

With FIFA awarding the 1962 World Cup medal to him retroactively, he became the only player in the history of the game to have won three World Cups as a player. He is Brazil’s highest goal scorer, with a total of 95. He is one of the most popular ambassadors of the sport and is one person that even a non-football person would very easily identify.