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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
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Soccer World Cup Trivia!!!
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006|
Individual Records
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| Youngest Player | Pele of Brazil was also the youngest player to score in a World Cup (1958) match. He also was the youngest player to ever win a World Cup (1958). |
| Oldest Player | Roger Milla of Cameroon was the oldest (42 years, 39 days) player to play in a World Cup (1994). He also scored a goal in that match against Russia. |
| Fastest Goal | Hakan Sukur of Turkey scored the fastest goal in World Cup history in 2002 when he scored 11 seconds into the match against South Korea. |
| Top Scorer | Recently Ronaldo Luiz Nazario de Lima is the top scorer in World Cup history with 15 goals (previously it was Gerard Muller with 14 goals) . Salenko of Russia scored 5 goals in a match during the 1994 World Cup. |
| Most appearance | Lothar Matthaus of Germany / West Germany has the most appearances by a player in the World Cup with 25. |