In this video we’ll see a RECORD broken in EACH World Cup, from the very first in 1930 all the way to 2022! But before going to the past, let’s go to a crazy record broken in 2018! The game was Egypt against Saudi Arabia, when both teams were already eliminated!
Even so, this match entered history! ‘Cause the egyptian keeper Essam El-Hadary broke the record for the OLDEST player EVER in a World Cup He was born in 1973, so he entered the field at 45 years old! For comparison, he’s 3 years OLDER than the Brazilian Ronaldo, the R9, and was already 21 when the 1994 World Cup took place, that’s crazy!
And that was just the FIRST record, we’ll see 1 that was broken in EACH of the 22 World Cups! From 1930 to Qatar 2022! The player with the MOST GOALS in a single World Cup, fastest goal, fastest red card and much more!
So since we talked about the oldest player, let’s go to the OLDEST tournament: 1930! And there was a record that will NEVER be broken: the World Cup with the LEAST number of draws For the only time ever, there were ZERO draws! Literally every match had a winner!
Something that never happened again But in the following World Cup there was another record: the highest percentage of Europeans! 12 of the 16 countries were from Europe! 75%!
So for the ONLY time in history, ALL countries in the quarterfinals were from europe! It was an early UEFA Euro But now let's move on to the next one, that took place in 1938 in France! And there was a record that had NOT been broken till this day: the biggest defeat in the knockout stage Everyone remembers Germany thrashing Brazil in 2014, but in the 1938 quarterfinals, Sweden faced CUBA and humiliated them: 8-0 It was FOUR goals in the first half and FOUR in the second!
I don't know what's more impressive. . .
the defeat or the fact that CUBA was in the quarterfinals haha This wasn’t the biggest defeat EVER in a World Cup, but it was the biggest in the knockout-stage! Later we’ll see what was the BIGGEST defeat ever! And it’s unlikely, but that record set by Sweden might be broken someday!
Now the record that was set in the NEXT Cup, in 1950, will NEVER be broken That was the first World Cup happening in Brazil, and at the end the home team was just ONE match away from being champions! So, in the FINAL match against Uruguay, the newly inaugurated Maracanã stadium was PACKED, making it the most attended match EVER! Officially, 173,000 people attended the match!
But it's estimated that the actual number reached 200,000! For comparison, it's more than TWICE the attendance in the 2022 final But all this ended with URUGUAY winning the game! One the biggest tragedies for Brazil So now, let’s go to the NEXT World Cup, in 1954!
And that year, Hungary broke a record that’s almost IMPOSSIBLE to repeat: the MOST GOALS in a single World Cup With Ferenc Puskas, the guy who inspired the Puskas Award, Hungary became a GOAL-SCORING MACHINE! South Korea was the first victim: losing 9-0! Then in the second game was against Germany.
. . guess what?
Hungary won 8-3! ! Four goals by Sandor Kocsis Then they went to the quarterfinals, beat Brazil 4-2, Uruguay 4-2 as well and reached the final!
That was against the SAME Germany they had humiliated before! So they started in the best possible way! With those goals Hungary extended their record: that was their goal number 26 and 27!
Yes, 27 scored in 5 matches, an average of 5. 4 PER GAME! So the title was theirs!
! But when everyone didn’t expect, Germany TURNED it around to 3-2! A win so surprising that became known as the "Miracle of Bern" So Hungary ended as runner-up with 27 goals scored!
For comparison, Argentina in 2022 scored 15 and France in 2018 scored 14! That’s crazy But if that was surprising, in the NEXT World Cup there was an even more impressive record: the player with the MOST GOALS in a SINGLE World Cup If you think that Mbappé scoring 8 goals in 2022 was a good achievement, it doesn’t even come close to what Just Fontaine did in 1958 For France in 1958, the striker had the perfect World Cup! Just in the group stage, he scored 6 GOALS!
Then in the quarterfinals he scored other 2 against Northern Ireland, one against Brazil, and in the third-place playoff against Germany, he netted FOUR goals! Fontaine finished that World Cup with 13 goals in 6 matches! With only ONE edition played, he is still the fourth top scorer in World Cup history alongside Messi!
And talking about goals, in the NEXT World Cup there was the OPPOSITE record! The top scorer with the FEWEST goals In 1962, Just Fontaine didn’t play! So without him, the top scorer title was shared by SIX players!
Garrincha, Vavá, Sanchez, Albert, Ivanov, and Jerkovic! Each of them became the top scorer by only scoring FOUR goals! So in 1962 there was the record of the top scorer with the FEWEST goals!
But now, we arrive at the 1966 World Cup, hosted in England! This was a legendary one And besides the English players who won their first and only title, another player that entered history was the Mexican keeper Antonio Carbajal! ‘Cause he became the FIRST EVER player to appear in FIVE World Cups!
He was Mexico's keeper in 1950, 54, 58, 62 and finally in 1966! This record was later matched by others, but he was the FIRST to achieve this But now, after 1966, we arrive at the 1970 World Cup, hosted IN Mexico! And it was this year that an almost impossible record was broken: the player with the MOST TITLES Pelé won in 1958, 1962, and in 1970 had a perfect performance!
6 goals and 4 assists, leading Brazil to the grand final, and defeating Italy by 4-1! Including 1 goal and two assists in the final! So in 1970, he won his THIRD World Cup and remains till this day the biggest winner ever!
Impressive So let’s fast forward 4 years and arrive in 1974, which had a legendary team: Johan Cruyff’s Netherlands! That team was so good that they advanced to the LAST match and broke a record: the FASTEST goal in a final! The match was Cruyff’s Netherlands against Germany, two giant teams!
Then, in the very first MINUTE of the game, Cruyff suffered a penalty! So, in just 90 seconds, the Netherlands scored the opener! Making it the FASTEST goal in a final!
But just like it happened to Hungary, Germany turned the game around So, after 74, we arrive in 1978! Hosted in Argentina! And that year, the Netherlands broke a record: the most consecutive finals lost!
Yeah, after they LOST to Germany in 1974, in 1978 they reached the final again! But against Argentina, they had a very tough match that went to extra time 1-1! Then in the extra time, the home team scored TWICE to finish it 3-1!
For the SECOND time in a row, the Netherlands was RUNNER-UP! At least in the following years, Germany ALSO lost two finals in a row and TIED the record! But no one surpassed it yet But now after 1978, we arrive at the 1982 World Cup!
That had a record impossible to break In the first match of the group stage, Hungary faced El Salvador, that was the weakest team made by players who played IN the El Salvador league So on a Tuesday night, Hungary's goals gave them another record El Salvador even managed to score a consolation goal! But the Hungarians just kept scoring 10-1! The biggest defeat in World Cup HISTORY, at least El Salvador can say they have a record Now let’s go to a record broken 4 years later, in 1986 This red card broke a record, cause it was given in only 56 SECONDS!
Yeah, in Uruguay vs Scotland in the group stage, the Uruguayan defender committed a heavy foul in less than a minute! So the referee didn't hesitate and SENT him off! The fastest red card in World Cup history!
The players weren't even sweating yet! And after 1986, we arrive in Italy for the 1990 World Cup! And the home team set a record that still hasn't been broken: the MOST MINUTES without conceding a goal!
Italy in 1990 had a VERY strong defense, with none other than Baresi, Ferri, and Paolo Maldini! Also, the keeper Zenga They were one of the top favorites and had a perfect group stage! 3 wins in three games without conceding a goal!
Then they went to the round of 16, defeated Uruguay 2-0, and in the quarterfinals, defeated Ireland 1-0! Italy won 5 consecutive matches without conceding a goal! But in the semifinals, they faced none other than Maradona's Argentina!
So in the second half. . .
Italy was winning but conceded the equalizer! And it was fatal because the match went to penalties and the home team was eliminated! Italy was out, but had an impressive record of 517 minutes without conceding a goal!
Over 8 hours! That’s crazy And another record that has never been broken is the player with the MOST GOALS in a single game! That happened in 1994!
For the first time, Russia was playing as Russia! But as we saw in the video of the heaviest defeats in the World Cup, they had a very poor group stage, losing the first two games! So they went to the last match against the also eliminated Cameroon, and the striker Oleg Salenko made history At that moment, he already had a hat-trick!
But he didn't stop Oleg Salenko didn't score three, not four. . .
but FIVE GOALS! For the first and only time ever a player scored five goals in a World Cup match! Ending 6-1!
And speaking of goals, 4 years later in 1998, France had a defense almost as good as Italy in 1990! But instead of Italy, they WON! Becoming the champion with the FEWEST goals conceded!
With the keeper Barthez and players like Desailly, Thuram, Zidane, and others, France played the World Cup at home and had an amazing campaign In SEVEN games, they scored 15 goals and conceded only TWO! No champion had ever conceded so few goals! In 2006 and 2010 this record was TIED by Italy and Spain!
But France was the first! That was the best french team ever And after 1998, we arrive in 2002! That had THIS record: Looks like just a normal goal!
But it happened only 11 SECONDS after the whistle! (mostrar um pequeno timelapse, do pontapé inicial até o chute) The match was Turkey vs. South Korea in the third-place playoff, and the striker Hakan Şükür broke a record by scoring the fastest goal in World Cup history!
11 seconds, very hard to beat this (mostrar um cronômetro) Now let's move on to 2006! That had a team being eliminated without conceding a SINGLE GOAL Imagine a team with such a strong defense that didn't concede a single goal, but still got eliminated? That team was Switzerland, which in the first group stage match drew with France!
The Swiss keeper Pascal Zuberbühler played very well Then in the next games, they beat Togo and South Korea 2-0! A good campaign, and they went to the round of 16, where they faced Ukraine! But if the defense was strong, the attack couldn't be effective.
. . It ended 0-0!
So the match went to PENALTIES! And this time the keeper Zuberbühler was beaten. .
. he conceded three goals and Switzerland didn't score! So they were ELIMINATED Switzerland said goodbye to the 2006 World Cup with 4 goals scored and none conceded!
And talking about goals, the next World Cup had a record that I don’t know if it was good or bad: the CHAMPION with the FEWEST goals scored! To win a World Cup you might think that it needs a lot of goals right? Well, not for Spain!
Because they WON the title scoring only 8 GOALS! The entire Spanish team in 2010 scored the same number of goals as Mbappe in 2022! In the group stage they even LOST the first match!
But defeated Honduras 2-0, Chile 2-1, and the knockout stage was a 1-0 sequence! 1-0 over Portugal, 1-0 over Paraguay, 1-0 over Germany and in the final… yes, 1-0 over the Netherlands In total Spain scored 8 goals and conceded 2, finishing as the Champion with the WORST attack! Germany that finished 3rd scored 16 goals, literally double the amount!
But hey, what matters is the title And talking about Germany, in the next World Cup they broke a record! Or at least HELPED Brazil to break the record for the biggest defeat of a home team Hosting the World Cup is an honor and can also be an advantage! Being in its own stadium can make a team play better!
But on july 8th 2014, Brazil suffered the worst defeat in its history It was a World Cup semifinal, everybody thought that it would be a very tight match! But in the first half Germany humiliated Brazil In the end Brazil scored the consolation goal to finish it 7-1! The record of the biggest defeat of a home team happened when no one would ever imagine, in the year the biggest winner hosted it… Now after 2014, we arrive at the 2018 World Cup!
Where the keeper Essam El-Hadary broke the record for the OLDEST player EVER! All these World Cups were amazing, but the craziest one was 2022! So much that there were LOTS of records broken!
In the first round, Portugal faced Ghana, and Ronaldo broke one of these: It was just a penalty goal, but he became the ONLY player EVER to score in 5 World Cups! He scored in 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022! And Messi did almost the same thing!
But this time with assists! He have at least one assist from 2006 to 2022 That World Cup was so good, that it had a record for itself: the edition with the MOST GOALS! From the first group stage match all the way to the final, there were 173 GOALS!
2. 7 per game! It was truly amazing!
