The lower divisions in soccer do not usually have much exposureso sometimes the feats that are carried out go unnoticed.
But fortunately for soccer fans, the one that occurred recently in the Fifth Division of Italian soccer, was immortalized on video.
Did they score the fastest goal in history?
During the duel between the Mazarese and Nissa, the players went out onto the field of play at the Nino Vaccara Stadium and got ready for the initial whistle. Nevertheless, Gioacchino Giardina realized that the rival goalkeeper was very advancedso meeting heard the whistle, took a powerful shot.
And despite the fact that the Nissa goalkeeper stretched trying to get the ball out, he mightn’t, so he opened the scoring just at 3.81 secondswith which he managed to score one of the fastest goals in soccer history.
Who held the record for the fastest goal?
Curiously, one of the fastest goal marks also occurred in Italy, but in Serie A and belonged to Rafael Leao, who vaccinated Sassuolo on December 20, 2020 at the 6.2 seconds into the match.
Unfortunately for Gioacchino Giardina, his goal was close to being his first, since the fastest was recorded in 2009, when the Saudi Nawaf Al Abed scored once morest the 2.3 seconds for Al Hilal kicking from halfway.
