Goalkeeper breaks world record for longest goal scored in a football match [Photos]
Football
By
Robert Abong'o
| Jan 22, 2021
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“With his epic downfield kick, King officially broke the record for the longest goal scored in a competitive football match, which covered an incredible distance of 96.01m (105 yards).” said the official Guinness World Records on their website. There is need to rethink Kenya's climate financing framework 2024 'certain' to be hottest year on record: EU monitor Kenyan diaspora seeks voice in Parliament with petition Landmark climate change case to open at top UN court COP29's climate finance deal stab on Africa's back $300B COP29 climate deal sparks outrage, hope What should be done to turn COP29 discussions into action Walkouts, weak deals and COP29 failures Ensure a just transition for workers in fossil fuel industry too King expressed delight at breaking the record and promised to send his commiserations to Begovic.
'I'm obviously absolutely delighted because it's not something that I intentionally set out to do,' King told the Newport website. I'm sure it will be talked about for a long time to come, so I'm proud and I'm sure my family will be extremely proud too. I'll have to drop Asmir a message to send my commiserations, but, in all honesty, it's different territory for me,” said King. 'It's something I never dreamt of being in the books that you get for Christmas every year. Hopefully, I might actually read it if I get one for Christmas this year. I'm delighted and hopefully, no one beats it for a long time now so I can show my grandkids,” he added.
BARCELONA’S ANSU FATI ALSO IN GUINNESS WORLD RECORD BOOKS
Barcelona superstar Anssumane Fati Vieira, commonly known as ‘="https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/sports/football/2001390689/guinness-book-of-records-youngest-ever-footballer-to-score-in-the-ucl">Ansu Fati’, was also added into the record books< for being the youngest-ever player to score a goal in the UEFA Champions League, when he got a goal against Inter Milan in a group stage tie on December 10, 2019.
Fati’s goal ensured the Catalans remained undefeated at the end of Group F qualifying, consequently knocking out Inter out of the competition. He scored this goal at the age of 17 years and 40 days – the youngest ever player to do so in the competition.
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