75-year-old Egyptian Ezz El-Din Bahader became the oldest player to score a goal in an official soccer match in the world.
Bahader, who scored this season for the October 6 club, broke the record for the 53-year-old Yokohama Kazuyoshi Miura.
Bahadur scored his first goal with the 6 October team in the local third division in the match that ended in a 1-1 draw from a penalty against Guinness last Saturday.
👏 This man is proving you're never too old to fulfill your sporting dreams! ⚽️ |
The local press celebrated the seventieth player who entered the Guinness Book of Records as the largest player to score in an official match, indicating that he is close to breaking another record soon when he participates in the second match, where he will become the largest player in the history of football, knowing that the encyclopedia requires his participation in two full matches to be Register it.
Captain Ezz El-Din Bahader, 75, participates and scores his team's goal in a football match in the Egyptian third division. A match remains until he enters the Guinness Book of Records after stipulating his 180-minute game, which is two full matches. |
Bahader had been registered in the October 6 team squad for the last winter transfer window, after undergoing a training program to prepare him for the matches.