Cumulative Football Quiz #2

[Håkon]

As we are starting a new one, we might as well have an easy question.

Who is all-time top scorer in the Brazilian League?

 

[Mikoyan]

Pelé

 

[Håkon]

Nope. Trick question, you see?

 

[animepornstar]

i think friedenreich has the unofficial record.

 

[Håkon]

Right! Artur Friedenreich scored about 1300 goals (not sure of the exact number) in the 20s and 30s. New question, please.

 

[polymath]

Which Brazilian seventies superstar was an unrepentant chain-smoker, and also a Doctor?

 

[willemvanoranje]

Wait a minute! 1300 goals? Pele scored only 1250 or something in his whole career!

 

[polymath]

There is some doubt about Pele's record:
He claimed to have scored 1000+ 'first class' goals. 'First class' is usually taken to mean either competitive Internationals or when playing in the topmost league of your country. I don't know the facts but some people claim Pele included friendlies and non-top-league matches.
Not that it matters - Pele was the ultimate footballer and also coined the phrase 'the beautiful game'. Good enough for me.

 

[Håkon]

Yes, exactly! Didn't I say Artur Friedenreich had 1300 goals, not Pele?

As for the current question, I have no idea. I'll bet on Zico.

 

[polymath]

Zico? Nope.
A clue - he sounds like a very clever man.

 

[Pggar]

Tostão

 

[polymath]

Tostao? Nope.
Another clue - he sounds like he should be playing for a completely different country in the Mediterranean - not only that, but about 2,000 years ago.

 

[duke o' york]

After all of that, it has to be Socrates, now Dr Socrates according to a football documentary I watched. That's brilliant: Dr Socrates!!!!!

 

[Pggar]

Socrates

 

[duke o' york]

Pggar, you post the next question because I'm about to leave work now and can't put another one in. Let the quiz continue!!!

 

[Pggar]

Here's an easy one::
The Brazilian league started to be called that way in 1972. In 1997, one player scored 29 goals in a single season, breaking the previous record. Who is he?

 

[polymath]

Indeed, I made it too easy in the end but the quiz must go on. But what a great name, I just remember one commentator saying something like "the brilliant, chain-smoking Doctor Socrates" and I fell about laughing. Too cool!

 

[animepornstar]

29 goals in 1997, must be romario.

 

[Pggar]

Nope.
He is known as a trouble maker, and he've played for the teams of Napoli and Fiorentina IIRC.

 

[animepornstar]

edmundo!