Individual Records in World Cup Football Tournament
football records, football world championship, football worldcup records, individual records in football, most football world cup tournaments, world cup football, world cup football recordsIn one of the previous articles we did go through the World Cup Football records by countries, now let us see how individual performances led to establishing the world records in World cup football championships. There are so many records that stand in football players name – I will highlight some here and will continue posting other article for records related to Goal scoring.
Individual Records in World Cup football Championships
Most Football World cup Tournaments Played:
There are 2 players as of now with this record. 5 is the number of times an individual player had played this tournament.
Antonio Carbajal of Mexico in 1950, 1954, 1958, 1962 and 1966
Lothar Matthäus of Germany in 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994 and 1998
Most number of times an individual has been with the winning team
Pele from Brazil has figured in 3 times as part of the World Cup Soccer winning team. These were in 1958, 1962 and 1970
Most matches played by an individual player
25 appearances in Football matches by Lothar Matthäus of Germany between 1982 and 1998
Most times a player was part of a winning side in a world cup football match
Cafu of Brazil was part of 16 matches
Most appearances as a captain in World cup matches
16 by Diego Maradona of Argentina
Youngest Player to play a world cup football match
Norman Whiteside of Northern Ireland – 17 years and 41 days against Yugoslavia in 1982
Youngest player to captain a world cup team
Tony Meola of United States – 21 years and 109 days against Czechoslovakia on June 10, 1990
Oldest Player to play in World Cup Football tournament
Roger Milla of Cameroon – 42 years and 39 days against Russia in 1994
Oldest player to captain a world cup team
Peter Shilton of England – 40 years and 292 days against Italy on July 7, 1990
