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On 2 November 2013, Stoke City goalkeeper Asmir Begović scored a goal which was the fastest for a professional goalkeeper in football history (13 seconds). [7] On 27 April 1985, SV Darmstadt 98 goalkeeper Wilhelm Huxhorn broke the record for the longest goal in football history (103 metres / 112.6 yards), in a match against Fortuna Köln. [8]
King was capped by England at under-16 and under-17 level. [33] He also qualifies for Wales as his mother was born in Cardiff [34] as well as being eligible for Gibraltar through residency, having spent several years there as a child, where he first started playing football in the youth ranks at Manchester United (Gibraltar). [35]
English goalkeeper Peter Shilton is generally considered the record holder for the most appearances, making 1,396 appearances between the 1960s and 1990s, including a national record of 125 appearances for England, and in 1996 became the first footballer to make 1,000 league appearances. [3]
Alan Edward Knight MBE (born 3 July 1961) [1] [2] is an English former footballer turned manager. [3] He holds the record for the most appearances for a single club by a goalkeeper, having played 683 league games (and 801 games overall) for Portsmouth between 1978 and 2000; this superseded Peter Bonetti's record of exactly 600 goalkeeping appearances for Chelsea.
The history of the England national football team, also known as the Three Lions, begins with the first representative international match in 1870 and the first officially-recognised match two years later. England primarily competed in the British Home Championship over the following decades. Although the FA had joined the international ...
His 119th appearance for his country saw England draw 1–1 with the Republic of Ireland in the opening group game; England got through the group, beat Belgium 1–0 in the second round match, and then edged past Cameroon 3–2 in the quarter-finals, thanks to two Lineker penalties after England went 2–1 down. Then came the West Germans in ...
Raymond Neal Clemence MBE (5 August 1948 – 15 November 2020) [4] was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.Regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time, he is one of few players to have made over 1,000 career appearances, [5] [6] [7] and holds the record for the most clean sheets in the history of football (460).
Patrick Anthony Jennings CBE (born 12 June 1945 [2]) is a Northern Irish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is widely recognised as one of the greatest goalkeepers in the history of the sport. [3] [4] He played 119 international matches for Northern Ireland in an international career which lasted for over 22 years.