Wednesday, January 17, 2007

World Cup records-football


While i was thinking in any interesting first, i decided to find a sport record, so i enter in a lot of sportwebpages. I enter in one webpage where it appear a lot of goal records in the football world cup,in fact i like very much the football world cups, the best football players from all over the world playing against, i think that is very exciting, maybe is because i have played football since i was a child.

To start with,watching to the ages,the youngest player to have scored a goal in the World Cup is Pelé of Brazil. He was only 17 years and 239 days old when he scored against Wales in 1958.On the other side,the oldest player to score a goal in the World Cup Finals is Roger Milla of Cameroon. When he scored against Russia in the 1994 tournament in USA, he was 42 years old and 39 days.

Then, looking to the velocity of scoring a goal.Turkey's Hakan Sükür scored the fastest ever goal in world cup history. Officially timed at just 11 seconds, it occurred in Turkey's third place playoff win against South Korea in the 2002 tournament in Japan/South Korea.
On the other hand,after it was appearing that the match was going to penalties, David Platt scored the latest goal in World Cup history (not including golden goals). He scored after 119 minutes in England's, second round match against Belgium in Italia 1990.

To finish with this especial goals, the first player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup match was United State's Bert Patenaude, who scored three against Paraguay in the first round of the 1930 World Cup.

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