Statistics for FIFA World Cup Records - Players

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Record	Number	Team	Answer	% Correct
Most titles	3	Brazil	Pelé	98%
Most goals scored	16	Germany	Miroslav Klose	89%
Most goals scored as a captain (name either)	6	Argentina/England	Diego Maradona \| Harry Kane	73%
Oldest player in a final match	42 years	Italy	Dino Zoff	63%
Most clean sheets by a goalkeeper (name either)	10	England/France	Peter Shilton \| Fabien Barthez	61%
Most consecutive appearances in a final match	3	Brazil	Cafu	59%
Most minutes played	2217	Italy	Paolo Maldini	59%
Most goals scored in a single tournament	13	France	Just Fontaine	57%
Most matches played	25	Germany	Lothar Matthäus	57%
Most tournaments as captain	5	Mexico	Rafael Márquez	43%
Most goals scored in a final match	3	England	Geoff Hurst	42%
Most appearance in a final match as a captain (name either)	2	Germany/Brazil	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge \| Dunga	39%
Scored at least one goal in every match played during the same tournament	7 goals in 6 matches	Brazil	Jairzinho	37%
Fastest goal from kickoff	11 seconds	Turkey	Hakan Şükür	32%
Most goals scored in a single match	5	Russia	Oleg Salenko	30%
Most goals for different national teams	3	Yugoslavia (1), Croatia (2)	Robert Prosinečki	20%
Goalkeeper with most consecutive minutes without conceding a goal	517	Italy	Walter Zenga	18%
Youngest player	17 years	Northern Ireland	Norman Whiteside	13%
Oldest player and captain	45 years	Egypt	Essam El-Hadary	9%
Youngest captain	21 years	United States	Tony Meola	3%