This Sunday (27), Canada played its second match of the World Cup against Croatia and scored for the first time goals, the author was the leader of the team, Alphonso Davies. After failing on their debut and last appearance in 1986, the Canadians celebrated the country’s first World Cup goal. This ball in the net was also the fastest of this edition of the World Cup.
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Alphonso Davies had been one of Canada’s figureheads on the country’s debut against Belgium, the full-back missing a penalty that would put his team ahead of the scoreboard. After the mistake, the Belgians scored with Batshuayi and won the match 1-0.
In addition to being Canada’s first World Cup goal, it was the fastest in the world in Qatar. Alphonso Davies scored with one minute and seven seconds past the fastest goal to date by Gakpo, the Dutchman scored after five minutes.
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Alphonso Davies’ goal was very quick, but it does not compare to the fastest goals in World Cup history, to get an idea, the Canadian goal is more than 30 seconds behind the fifth fastest goal. quick.
The fastest goals in the World Cup
- Hakan Sukur (for Turkey v Korea) in 2002: 11 seconds
- Vaclav Masek (for Czechoslovakia against Yugoslavia) in 1962: 16 seconds
- Ernst Lehner (for Germany against Austria) in 1934: 24 seconds
- Bryan Robson (for England v France) in 1982: 27 seconds
- Clint Dempsey (for USA v Ghana) in 2014: 28 seconds
In the history of the World Cups, the goal of Alphonso Davies does not really enter the top 5, but in the list of the fastest goals of the last three editions, he enters in third position, behind only Dempsey, with 28 seconds, and Jorgensen, with 57 seconds.
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