Youngest player in a Soccer World Cup Tournament?
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Norman Whiteside (UK) for Northern Ireland v. Yugoslavia at the age of 17 years and 41 days, June 1982.\nSource-Sam
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Absolutely not.\n\nThe U-20 and U-18 teams have been miserable failures in the Youth tournaments. Heck, Canada and the USA have been picking them apart. Mexico will qualify for South Africa, but it won't be easy for them.
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Pele of Brazil was the youngest in 1958 world cup (17)\nRoger Milla of Kameroon was the oldest in 1994 world cup (42)
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Kaka will be the next one to shine, or maybe Robinho. But Ronaldinho will surely be there if Brazil have an amazing World Cup run.
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Pelé was the youngest player to play in a World Cup final at 17 years and 239 days old, in Gothenburg, June 19 1958. \nHe is also the youngest player to score in a World Cup final at 17 years old.
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Debutants :\nNations, taking part in a World Cup Final stage for the first time are Ghana, The Ivory Coast, Angola, Togo, Ukraine and Trinidad & Tobago.
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actually the youngest player in England to make an apperance for a club is Aaron Lennon, now of Tottenham. Before that is was Owen, who got beat by Rooney, who got beat by Milner, who then got beat by his Leeds teammate Lennon. But in Europe I don't know.
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nuri sahin-turkish national youth team.. he plays for b. dortmund... he was the player of last youth world cup
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Theo walcott, he recently transferred from southampton to Arsenal, and so impressed manager Arsen Wenger, that he urged Sven to include him in the squad.  Sven, being the puppet he is, agreed and enlisted the 17 year old into the squad.  He has not played yet and if he does will break records for the youngest player to compete in a World Cup Finals tournament.\nHowever, he is not necessarily the most immature player in the squad, that honour goes to David Beckham, who apparently needs constant motivation and praise to stop him going into huge sulks (after Sven said that if he were to 'not perform' he would be dropped from the team) \nStill....this is football and most players in the game today have very limited intelligence.....a game designed by gentlemen and played by hooligans!
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Fernando Torres of Spain.  They have a really easy group, so he could easiy bag 4 goals in the group stage alone.  My other tip would be Van Nistelrooy, as he will have a point to prove in his 1st world cup tournament.
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World Cup's not over yet.. So far Ricardo from Portugal has shown great performance. esp. last nite againt Dutch.
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young or old doesnt really matter ...will they deliver or not ..thats the bottomline !klinsmann is confident on that since he's probably more comfortable managing youngsters ..same goes for SCHOLL
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Probably Wayne Rooney.  I think he is only 20, so he can probably play in at least 3 more tournaments, and we know england will always qualify and go far, so he has a good chance. \n\nMiroslav Klose, of Germany also has a good chance beacuse he already has 9, and he will be back for at least one more time.\n\nBut Ronaldo already has 15, and by the time the tournaments over he may have 17 or 18.  I think it will be a long time until the record is broken, and it may even be by someone we haven't heard of yet.
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Was Pelé from Brazil, he was 16 years old against Sweden in 1958.
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The oldest player in a World Cup tournament was Roger Milla of Cameroun, who was 42 years and 39 days when he played against Russia in 1994. He scored in that game, making him the oldest goalscorer as well(Dino Zoff of Italy was 40 yrs 133 days old when he captained them to World Cup victory in 1982 against West Germany in spain)
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I think becasue hes 15 and world cup might have age restriction, Be prepared to see him in 4 years though :)
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yes, I don't know what Erickson was thinking when he invited a 17 year old kid to play on world cup, you have Be atty or Vassel as a better substitute for Rooney!  I hope he gets better for next round of World Cup.