The Brazilian football legend Pele has a record in the World Cup finals throughout its history, as the youngest player is a score through all copies of the tournament, at the age of 17 years and 239 days, during the 1958 edition.
Pele scored his first goals in the World Cup in the Wales team, in the quarter -finals of the 1958 edition, and then succeeded in scoring the “hat -trick” trilogy, against France’s goal in the semi -finals, before adding two other goals in the final of the Swedish national team.
In the following report, we review the youngest player to score goals in the World Cup:
1- Pele in the 17-year-old Wales goal in the 1958 World Cup.
2- The Mexican Manuel Rosas in the window of Argentina at the age of 18 and 93 days in the 1930 World Cup.
3- Michael Owen in the Romanian national team at the age of 18 and 180 days in the 1998 World Cup.
4- Romanian Nikolai Kovax at Peru, 18 years old and 197 days in the 1930 World Cup.
5- The Russian Dmitry CISHID against Belgium at the age of 18 years and 231 days in the 2002 World Cup.
6- Lionel Messi in Serbia’s 18-year-old and 357 days in the 2006 World Cup.
7- The American Julian Green is in the 19-year-old Belgium nets in the 2014 World Cup..
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