Tanzania scored perhaps the fastest penalty in international football history on the way to the World Cup qualifier against Madagascar – awarded after just five seconds.
The Ugandan referee Mashood Ssali showed in the tie on Tuesday when a long ball from the kick-off was followed by Tanzania’s Simon Mvusa, into which Madagascar Melvin Adrien, a goalkeeper of the French fourth division, bumped awkwardly.
Captain Erasto Nyoni converted the kick and Tanzania won 3-2 and advanced the top of the African Group J ranking.
There are no official records for the fastest penalty in a World Cup game, but nothing faster than this has ever been documented.
Received in a friendly against Ghana in Podgorica in 2014 Montenegro took a penalty after 10 seconds that turned into the only goal of the game, but even that couldn’t match Tanzania’s early gift.
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