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goal - Turkey's Hakan Sükür after 11 seconds
against South
Korea in 2002.
Latest goal
- David Platt of England, in
their second round match against Belgium in 1990 after 119 minutes.
Fastest
hat-trick - Hungary's Laszlo Kiss
against El Salvador in 1982, he scored after 70, 74 and 77
minutes. He is also the only substitute to have scored a
hat-trick.
Oldest
player to have scored is Roger Milla of
Cameroon when he scored against Russia in 1994. He was 42 years
and 39 days old.
Youngest
player to have scored a goal is Pelé
of Brazil when he scored against Wales in 1958. He was then only 17
years and 239 days old.
Only
players to have scored in every match including the
final are Jairzinho of Brazil, in 1970 World Cup
and Alcide Ghiggia of Uruguay in 1950. The latter only played four
games where as Jairzinho played six.
Fastest
goal by a substitute - Ebbe Sand of
Denmark against Nigeria in the second round in 1998. Sand scored only
16 secs after coming on in Denmark's 4-1 win.
Only
players to have scored in two World Cup finals - Vava of Brazil
in 1958 and 1962, Pelé of Brazil 1958 and
1970 and Paul Breitner of West Germany in 1974 and 1982.
First
player to score a hat-trick - United States's Bert Patenaude
against Paraguay
in the first round of the 1930 World Cup.
Only player
to score four goals in one match and still
end up on the losing team was Poland's Ernst Willimowski against
Brazil in 1938. Leonidas of Brazil also scored four goals in that match
when his team won 6-5.
Only player
to have scored for two countries is
Robert Prosinecki who represented Yugoslavia in 1990 scoring against
the United Arab Emirates, and Croatia in 1998 scoring against Jamaica.
First
own-goal - Ernst Lötscher of Switzerland against Germany
in a first round
replay game in 1938.
Only player
to have scored a goal plus an own-goal in the
same match - Ernie Brandts of Holland in the second phase match
against Italy in 1978. The Dutch team won 2-1.
First
substitute to score a goal was Juan Basaguren
when he netted the last goal against El Salvador in Mexico's 4-0 win in
1970.
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