World Cup 2010 has attracted a great deal of attention all over the world. Excellent teams are ready for the next round, and Jabulani ball has fascinated millions of football fans. Along with exciting football atmosphere, there is some interesting information about outstanding goalkeepers and humorous Guinness Records of humor that they has achieved as follows.
Longest World Cup finals clean sheet
Walter Zenga was titled as the “Longest World Cup Finals Clean Sheet” ever. According to FIFA's statistics, this goalkeeper had played for 518 minutes (equivalent to nearly 6 matches) without conceding a goal. It was in 1990 that Walter Zenga played for Italy.
Zenga, one of the world's most famous goalkeepers
Most World Cup finals clean sheets
Fabien Barthez shares the record for the most World Cup finals clean sheets with Peter Shilton. He has a habit of pulling up his shorts while he is waiting for a penalty kick. As Barthez explains, he usually does that to distract the opponents.
Barthez played for France between 1998 and 2006
Heaviest goalkeeper
Willie Henry Foulke (1814-1916) was a goalie who has the heaviest weight ever. He weighs 141kg and 1m90 tall. In football games with the presence of Henry, his teammates were very idle thanks to his “dinosaur” body. The last team he played for was Bradford City in England.
It is not hard to recognize Henry in the team
Most expensive goalkeeper
Gianluigi Buffon is considered by many fans and experts to be one of most dominant and successful goalkeepers in the recent history. He was transferred from Serie A clubs Parma to Juventus in July 2001 for a world record fee of £32.6 million ($46.8 million)
The handsome caption of Italy National Team
Most goals ever scored in one game by a goalkeeper
Goalkeeper Jose Luis Chilavert of Paraguay currently holds Guinness record for the most goals ever scored in one game by a goalkeeper. During a game in the Argentinian first division, Chilavert scored three goals in a 6-1 drubbing of Ferro Carril Oeste for his team Velez Sarsfield.
Jose Luis Chilavert was a three-time IFFHS World's Best Goalkeeper award winner.
Most goals scored by a goalkeeper
Rogerio Ceni, a Brazilian goalkeeper, holds the world record of the most goals scored by a goalkeeper. Since 1997, he has scored 88 goals while playing for Sao Paulo Football Club.
Rogerio Ceni has scored the most goals in the history of football
