manuel rosas scored the first own goal in fifa world cup history.
manuel rosas scored the first own goal in fifa world cup history.
who scored the first own goal in fifa world cup history?
manuel rosas
manuel rosas sánchez (17 april 1912 in mexico city – 20 february 1989), nicknamed "chaquetas", was a mexican footballer who participated in the 1930 fifa world cup. he was the first player in the history of fifa world cup who scored a goal from the penalty kick spot (against argentina). with the first goal he scored during the world cup, he became at the time the youngest player to have scored in the fifa world cup, a record later broken by pelé, although rosas remains second youngest. he was also the first mexican player to score multiple goals in world cup play (the first to score more than two goals was luis hernandez, 68 years later) and the first player to score an own goal in the history of fifa world cup (against chile).
manuel rosas
the game's result was the biggest winning margin in a world cup semi-final or final. the outcome was also the worst loss by a host country in world cup history, as the six-goal difference doubled the previous record margin. by the end of the game, a total of 167 goals had been scored at the 2014 world cup, the 2nd-most at a single world cup, after 1998 with 171 goals. with 18 total shots on target, the match had the joint-most shots on target of any match in 90 minutes at the 2014 world cup. the match also had the fastest four goals scored in world cup history, with germany scoring in the span of six minutes (from 23' to 29'); in 1954, austria took seven minutes (25' to 32') and in 1982, hungary also took seven minutes (69' to 76') to score four goals. germany equalled the record for most goals scored against the host nation of the world cup, with austria defeating switzerland 7–5 in the 1954 world cup. germany also overtook brazil to become the all-time highest-scoring team in fifa world cup history, their total of 223 at full-time passing brazil's 221. before the match brazil and germany were even with seven world cup finals each, the german victory made them the only squad to reach 8 finals.
brazil v germany (2014 fifa world cup)