Manuel Rosas was the youngest goal scorer in World Cup history until the player who scored how many goals in his career broke his record?
Pelé Edson Arantes do Nascimento (] ; born 23 October 1940), known as Pelé (] ), is a retired Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward. He is widely regarded as the greatest football player of all time. In 1999, he was voted World Player of the Century by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS). That same year, Pelé was elected Athlete of the Century by the International Olympic Committee. According to the IFFHS, Pelé is the most successful league goal-scorer in the world, scoring 1281 goals in 1363 games, which included unofficial friendlies and tour games. During his playing days, Pelé was for a period the best-paid athlete in the world.
Peregrino Anselmo Juan Peregrino Anselmo (30 April 1902 – 27 October 1975) was a striker for Uruguay who was a member of the championship-winning squad at the 1930 FIFA World Cup; he scored 3 goals in the tournament, including 2 in the semi-finals. He was the first false 9 in a world cup. He also won the gold medal with Uruguay at the 1928 Summer Olympics. He was a player and later coach of C.A. Peñarol. As coach, succeeding mid-1962 the Hungarian Béla Guttmann in office, he led the club to the Uruguayan championship of the same year. In the later part of 1963 the Uruguayan goalkeeper Roque Maspoli succeeded him.