article_snippet: La Liga top goal-scorer, Barcelona top goalscorer, Champions League top goalscorer.
article_snippet: If you are a great individual player, there is a wider test of greatness in inspiring your team to win trophies.
article_snippet: Javier Mascherano and Angel di Maria shared that honour.
article_snippet: Pele is hoisted aloft after winning Pele third World Cup in 1970 with that peerless Brazil side .
article_snippet: Diego Maradona lifted Argentina to their second World Cup in eight years with Pele tour de force in Mexico .
article_snippet: That ignores the fact that most players would still consider winning the World Cup the pinnacle of most players careers.
article_snippet: Champions League is still a fantastic achievement but it seems like an anomaly for someone who is supposed to be the best ever, especially when you consider the achievements of others.
article_snippet: Paolo Maldini won it five times, Raul won it three times, Clarence Seedorf won it four times with three different clubs.
article_snippet: In it incarnation as the European Cup, other greats like Franz Beckenbauer and Johan Cruyff won it three times.
article_snippet: Ferenc Puskas and Alfredo di Stefano, two more players that some old fuddy-duddies think were the best they ever saw, won the European Cup eight times between they.
article_snippet: In particular, it would be Pele’s part in it.
article_snippet: Pele’s the best for me