Football is rightfully considered the most popular sport. It is also a kind of veteran in the world of sports, because the first official match was played over 100 years ago - an impressive indicator. During this time, tens of generations grew, hundreds of times changed and new rules were introduced, thousands of goals were scored. Some of them didn’t mean anything, others meant everything, some clogged in the last seconds of the meeting, the second in the first. How much time does it take to score a goal, and what is the fastest goal in the history of football?
Naturally, you can score the fastest, unless the ball is in the center of the field, that is, simply put, with a second touch on the ball, send it from the center circle to the opponent’s goal. Given the presence of the goalkeeper at the goal, the task is not easy, but quite feasible, craftsmen were before, not to mention the current generation. As a rule, such goals are a cross between a long arc and a “parachute” for the goalkeeper's collar.
History knows many cases when a goal in football was scored in the first 2-3 seconds after the whistle, but what is the fastest goal in the world? It is difficult to give an unequivocal answer to this question, since in different countries there is a hero, and the time difference can be a fraction of a second. In addition, many of these goals flew into the goal net in matches of representatives of amateur leagues and championships, and games such as official are not listed, and, therefore, the result in time of fixing a goal cannot be considered official.
As already mentioned, the fastest goal in the history of football is attributed to several performers at once, so some of them can still be distinguished.
Vuk Bakic
The Serbian football player at that time defended the accounts of the youth team “Flight”. He managed to send the ball into the goal of his peers from the Dorchola team already in the third second of the match, and the match itself ended in a confident victory for Flight 4-1. In fairness, we note that Bakich's teammate at the time of the strike was in the opponent's half of the field, which indirectly could be regarded as a violation of the rules.
Mikhail Osinov
Not so long ago, in September 2011, a 35-year-old veteran of the Novocherkassk club “Metos”, who plays in the second division of Russia, was able to distinguish himself with a successful strike from the central circle. According to one opinion, this is the fastest goal, and it was recorded after 2.7 seconds after the referee gave the starting whistle.
Riccardo Oliveira
According to the Guinness Book of Records, the fastest goal was scored in 1998 in a match between the Rio Negro and Soriano clubs. Exactly 2.8 seconds of the match passed before it was scored.
Mark Burroughs
Forward reserve team “Coase”, serving in the amateur English league in Essex County, and it took only 2 seconds to send “round” for the collar of the opponent's goalkeeper. Naturally, according to one version, this is the fastest goal, at least in the history of English football. According to the football player himself, the wind helped him. Mark decided to take a long-range strike immediately after the ball was played, and a gust, as it turned out, of a fair wind picked up the "shell" and sent it right on target. Everyone was surprised, down to the masseurs of the team, and the hero himself celebrated a goal with a loud laugh.