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Diego Maradona's (ARG) second goal against England at the 1986 FIFA World Cup has been voted the FIFA World Cup Goal of the Century in a recent poll hosted on FIFAworldcup.com, the Official Website of the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
Over the past six weeks, FIFAworldcup.com, in conjunction with Budweiser, has given fans the chance to vote online for the greatest goal ever scored in FIFA World Cup history. Using exclusive video footage from the FIFA archives, football fans from around the globe have selected weekly winners from the past five weeks.
Maradona's unforgettable strike came top of the league winning the final knockout stage this week with 18062 votes. England's Michael OWEN (ENG) followed closely in second with his effort in 1998 finals, edging the legendary PELE (BRA) into third place. The top ten goals of the FIFA World Cup Goal of the Century, as voted for by fans from around the world, reads as follows:
FIFAworldcup.com Goal of the Century - FINAL Top Ten Table
- Maradona (1986 vs ENG): 18,062 Votes Michael OWEN (1998 vs ARG): 10,631 Votes PELE (1958 vs SWE): 9,880 Votes Maradona (1986 vs BEL): 9,642 Votes Gheorghe HAGI (1994 vs COL): 9,297 Votes Saeed OWAIRAN (1994 vs BEL): 6,756 Votes Roberto BAGGIO (1990 vs CZH): 6,694 Votes Carlos ALBERTO (1970 vs ITA): 5,388 Votes Lothar MATTHAEUS (1990 vs YUG): 4,191 Votes Vincenzo SCIFO (1990 vs URG): 2,935 Votes Over the 6 weeks of the Goal of the Century competition, a truly amazing 341,460 votes have been cast from over 150 countries worldwide. Making this the first truly global vote where genuine football fans decide who has scored the greatest goal in FIFA World Cup history rather than the 'experts' and 'pundits'.
'FIFA is proud to be able to offer the fans of the world online access to its vintage film and TV archives through innovative programs such as the FIFA World Cup Goal of the Century,' said Charles-Henry CONTAMINE, FIFA's Head of Internet. 'It's truly great to see so many fans across the world making their voices heard by voting Maradona's goal 'The FIFA World Cup Goal of the Century' he added.
Now that the voting has finished, the fans can still see the top 3 FIFA World Cup Goals of the Century, as presented by Budweiser, on the pure football section of FIFAworldcup.com.
Budweiser, Official FIFA Partner and Official Sponsor of FIFAworldcup.com, was the sponsor of the Goal of the Century, further underscoring the company's active and extensive commitment to football. In addition to the Goal of the Century, Budweiser is also exclusive sponsor of 'The Budweiser Challenge-The Official FIFA World Cup Pick and Win Game,' a free multi-language game on FIFAworldcup.com, where people can predict the finish of all eight groups and the points each team will earn during the first round of competition. The Budweiser Challenge currently has more than 250,000 players, including more than 12,000 fans in both the 'Fans of Argentina' and 'Fans of England' groups. 'Fans of United States' ranks third with nearly 9,800 group members.
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See also general World Cup Trivia and the list of top goal scorers.
- The first player to score in the World Cup wasLucien Laurent of France, in the 19th minute in the first World Cup match on 13 July 1930.
- The fastest goal in a World Cup match was scored by Turkey's Hakan Sükür after only 11 seconds against South Korea in 2002.
- The latest goal scored in a match was by Italian Del Piero who scored in the 121st minute when Italy beat Germany 2-0 in 2006. In the same match Fabio Grosso scored in the 119th minute. In 2014, Algerian Abdelmoumene Djabou also scored in the 120+1st minute against Germany
- The fastest hat-trick was made by Hungary's Laszlo Kiss against El Salvador in 1982, when he scored after 70, 74 and 77 minutes.
- The only substitute to have scored a hat-trick was Hungary's Laszlo Kiss against El Salvador in 1982, when he scored after 70, 74 and 77 minutes.
- The record for the most goals at a World Cup is 13 by Frenchman Just Fontaine in 1958, which he achieved in six games.
- The overall top goal scorer in the World Cup is German Miroslav Klose, who has scored 16 goals.
- The only players to have scored from three headers in a single match are Tomáš Skuhravý in 1990 and Miroslav Klose in 2002.
- Hungary holds the record for the highest thrashings - beating El Salvador 10-1 in 1982 and South Korea 9-0 in 1954.
- Three players have scored in four successive finals tournaments. Both Pelé of Brazil and Uwe Seeler of West Germany scored in the finals of 1958, 1962, 1966 and 1970, and German Miroslav Klose scored in 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014.
- The only players to have scored in every match including the final are Jairzinho of Brazil, who did this in the 1970 World Cup and Alcide Ghiggia of Uruguay in 1950. However, Ghiggia only played four games whereas Jairzinho played six.
- The first player to score a penalty goal wasMexico's Manuel Rocquetas Rosas against Argentina on 19 July 1930.
- The only 'Olympic goal' (goal scored directly from a corner kick) in the World Cup was scored for Colombia by Marcos Coll, beating goalkeeper Lev Yashin in a 4–4 draw with the Soviet Union in 1962.
- The most goals ever scored by one player in a World Cup match is five, by Russian Oleg Salenko.
- The only players to have scored in two World Cup finals are; Vava of Brazil in 1958 and 1962, Pelé of Brazil 1958 and 1970, Paul Breitner of West Germany in 1974 and 1982, and Zinedine Zidane: 2 v. Brazil in '98, and one in '06 v. Italy.
- The first player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup match was United States's Bert Patenaude who did this against Paraguay in the first round of the 1930 World Cup. Some records wrongly have the first player scoring a hat-trick asGuillermo Stabile of Argentina in their 6:3 win over Mexico on 19 July 1930, two days after Patenaude.
- The 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 three goals in that match when his team won 6-5.
- The highest scoring game in World Cup history was in 1954, when Austria defeated Switzerland 7-5.
- The 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.
- The only player to have scored a goal plus an own-goal in the same match is Ernie Brandts of Holland in the second phase match against Italy in 1978. The Dutch team won 2-1.
- The 1994 joint golden boot winner Russian Oleg Salenko is the only player to win the award playing for a team that were eliminated in the group stages. His six goals are the only international goals he ever scored.
- The 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.
- The fastest goal by a substitute was made by 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.
- Greek defender Sokratis Papastathopoulos scored his first international goal, and became the player with the longest (single) second name of any goalscorer in World Cup history.
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