Who is the youngest player to play in a world cup match?
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http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=54338
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Ronaldhino from Brazil!
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5\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_World_Cup_1994
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Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo and Argentina's Lionel Messi will be definitely the most electrifying players on the pitch. But to give you some players that people won't tell you are Germany's Robert Huth, Bastian Schweinsteiger, and Lukas Podolski(all under 22). Cesc Fabregas is incredible at Arsenal, so he will most likely do good aswell.And last two,Paraguay's Nelson Valdez(forward)is one of the best talents in South America and might carry Paraguay past the group stage in head of Sweden and Trinidad&Tobago.Lastly\nManchester Utd. and Serbia&Montenegro's promising young defender, Nemanja Vidic.
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From June 9th until July 5th, you will be able vote for your favourite young player of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
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The tallest player In Fifa World Cup is Nikola Zigic of Serbia and Montenegro. His height is  202 centimetres. \n\nSecond comes  Englands Peter Crouch. He is 6"7. His Height of 201 cm makes him the tallest player ever to play for Liverpool and  the England Team.
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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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The youngest ever player was Norman Whiteside of Northern Ireland who was 17 years & 42 days when he played against Yugoslavia on 17/06/1982.
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At seventeen, he was not chosen for the world cup team this year.\n\n"For the moment, that conversation involves only those names that stumble - like a blindfolded gymnast - off the American tongue: Ronaldinho, Shevchenko, Ibrahimovic. At 17, Adu has not yet shown the spark that made him a target for storied European clubs like Inter Milan. He was not chosen for the national team in this year's World Cup."
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Oldest player to have played in the World Cup is Cameroon's Roger Milla. He was 42 years and 39 days old when he played against Russia in 1994.
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Gerd muller (Germany) with 14.Ronaldo is catching up though.
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The average age for players in the World Cup 06 is - 27\n\nWith a median birth date of: 11th / 12th April 1979
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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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That player is Rigobert Song, sent off in 1994 against Brazil (in fact, he's the youngest ever player to have been sent off, aged 17) and in 1998 against Chile.
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Owen had a highly successful record at Youth and Under-21 international level, although he was only briefly a member of the England Under-21 team before he made his debut for the senior team in a 2-0 friendly loss to Chile in February 1998. Playing in this game made Owen the youngest player to represent England in the whole of the 20th century.\nOwen's youthful enthusiasm, pace and talent made him a popular player across the country, and many fans were keen for him to be made a regular player for the team ahead of that year's World Cup. His first goal for England, against Morocco in another friendly game just prior to this tournament, only increased these calls. The goal also made him the youngest ever player to have scored for England, until his record was surpassed by Wayne Rooney in 2003.\nAlthough he was selected for the World Cup squad by manager Glenn Hoddle, he was kept on the bench as a substitute in the first two games. However, his substitute appearance in the second game against Romania saw him score a goal and hit the post with another shot, almost salvaging the defeat. After that, Hoddle had little choice but to play him from the start, and in England's second round match against Argentina he scored a sensational individual goal, voted by many as the goal of the tournament and really bringing him to the attention of the world football scene.\nEngland lost that match and went out of the tournament, but Owen had sealed his place as an automatic England choice and his popularity in the country was huge. At the end of the year he won a public vote to be elected winner of the prestigious BBC Sports Personality of the Year title, the award's youngest ever recipient.\nHe has since played for England in Euro 2000, the 2002 World Cup and Euro 2004, scoring goals in all three tournaments. This makes him the only player to ever have scored in four major tournaments for England.\nOn 1 September 2001, Owen famously scored a hat-trick in a 5-1 victory over Germany in Munich in the qualifying campaign for the 2002 World Cup, the first English player to score a hat-trick against Germany since Geoff Hurst, who scored his hat trick in the 1966 World Cup Final. He subsequently scored a second hat-trick against Colombia in New Jersey in May 2005.\nIn April 2002, he was named as England's captain for a friendly match against Paraguay in place of the injured regular captain David Beckham. Owen was the youngest England skipper since Bobby Moore in 1963, and since then has regularly captained England during any absence for Beckham.\nOwen made his debut for the England national B-team in a friendly against Belarus on May 25, 2006, as part of his return to match fitness ahead of the 2006 World Cup. He captained England B in this game, playing for 61 minutes before being substituted.\nAs of June 2006, Owen has been capped 78 times for England and scored 36 goals: he is fourth in the list of all-time top scorers for the England team, behind Bobby Charlton (49 goals), Gary Lineker (48) and Jimmy Greaves (44). He and Lineker jointly hold the record of twenty-two goals for England in competitive matches, i.e. World Cup and European Championship games and the qualifiers for those tournaments.
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Maradona ...\n\nand in now whom playing Ronalinho ...\n\ngood luck :)
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I'd disagree on Wayne Rooney, solely because he hasn't played yet. Of the players I've seen, Arjen Robben (Netherlands) has got to be one of the best young players around, he's only 22 and yet he's playing as though he's a veteran of the team.