Fifa U20 World Cup in stats: Flying Eagles have scored two of the three fastest goals ever
Published: May 21, 2023
The Flying Eagles of Nigeria have scored two of the three fastest goals at the FIFA U20 World Cup, football's governing body FIFA has confirmed.
Monday Odiaka broke the deadlock in the fourteenth second as the Flying Eagles defeated Canada 2-0 in their opening game of the 1985 FIFA World Youth Championship.
And in doing so, Odiaka, then on the books of African Continental Bank FC, etched his name into the history books by netting the quickest goal in the history of the U20 World Cup.
Odiaka's record stood for 33 years and 8 months before it was broken by Senegal’s Amadou Sagna, who scored the fastest goal in U-20 World Cup history against Tahiti.
The match was just 9.6 seconds old when the Senegalese forward scored the first of his three goals against Tahiti.
John Owoeri has scored the third-quickest goal in FIFA U20 World Cup history, 18 seconds against the Netherlands in 2005.
Nigeria are the only team to rally from being more than three goals down to avoid defeat in an U20 World Cup game.
In a tie known as ‘The Miracle of Dammam’, the Flying Eagles incredibly reversed a four-goal deficit to eliminate Soviet Union in the Saudi Arabia 1989 quarter-finals
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