The World Cup kicks off in 8 days and we are sure to see some golazos over the 104 games. Will any of those goals make it to ...

Diego Maradona and Pele are considered two of the greatest footballers in history – but how do their goals and assists numbers stack up against one another? The two legends have long set the benchmark ...

With just over two weeks until the 23rd men’s Fifa World Cup in North America, The Independent sports team ranks the top-50 ...

The eighth of our extracts from The Soccer 100 looks at the King, the first (and still only) man to win three World Cups as a ...

The Independent has put together a list of the 50 greatest names in World Cup history, based exclusively on their ...

Pele has been inducted into the Goal Hall of Fame, and we take a look at what some of the game's greats had to say about the legendary Brazilian "He is the most complete player I ever saw." FRANZ ...

Pele and Lionel Messi share the World Cup’s goal-contribution record at 21. The Brazilian registered 12 goals and nine assists, while the Argentinian has scored 13 and set up eight. They are followed ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil great Neymar received a plaque for becoming the team’s all-time leading goal-scorer in official matches in the early hours of Saturday. However, the language used to describe ...

Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are the two highest-scoring men's football players in history, and they can both still add ...

When the news that Pele’s flame was dimming came on the same day that Lionel Messi was lighting up the World Cup with his 1,000th goal, it seemed somehow to align two sparkling stars of global ...