Five of the most unexpected record holders in football

#2 Fastest World Cup qualifying goal

The general expectation of fans is to see the superstar forwards holding records like these. Fastest hattricks, fastest goals and so on, these are the distinctions that are supposed to be held by the world class player of the footballing fraternity.

If someone asked you who the fastest scorer in the World Cup Qualifying campaign is, you might just shrug and say the Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi or some other well-revered player most probably making a living in Europe. Obviously, this is considering that you are not a football geek.

However, if you didn’t know better, you are definitely not going to name a San Marino player – that is if you remember any of their players’ names any. But for this one, remember the name of Davide Gualtieri – the man who scored the fastest goal in the history of the World Cup qualifying campaign in 1993 when he put the English team in a state of shock after scoring within 8.3 seconds.

England eventually went on to win the game by hammering San Marino 7-1, but no-one has ever erased that embarrassment off of England’s head yet.