Soccer News of Sunday, 8 June 2014
Source: cameroonweb-basil k. mbuye
Fabrice Olinga is Youngest World Cup 2014 Player
Out of the 736 players that will be taking part at the World cup tourney in Brazil, Cameroon's Fabrice Olinga, 18, is the youngest of all.
Olinga who is just was born on May 1996, is just 10 months younger than England's Luke Shaw.
Another Cameroonian player, Samuel Eto’o also set this same record at the 1998 World Cup in France when he was just 17 years three months, three months younger than another Cameroonian, Salomon Olembe who also took part in the 1998 World cup.
Meanwhile, for the average age of every squad at World Cup 2014, Argentina is the oldest; Ghana the youngest.
Ghana is the youngest with an average of just 25.44 and Argentina, by contrast, have the oldest squad, with an average age of 28.9.
Average age of each 2014 World Cup squad |
Team | Youngest player | Oldest player | Average age |
Ghana | Rashid Sumaila (21) | Michael Essen (31) | 25.44 |
Belgium | Divock Origi (19) | Daniel van Buyten (36) | 25.66 |
Nigeria | Kenneth Omeruo (20) | Joseph Yobo (33) | 25.81 |
Switzerland | Granit Xhaka (21) | Steve von Bergen (31) | 26.06 |
South Korea | Son Heung-Min (21) | Kwak Tae-Hwi (32) | 26.19 |
Germany | Matthias Ginter (20) | Miroslav Klose (36) | 26.31 |
Australia | Adam Taggart (21) | Tim Cahill (34) | 26.36 |
Netherlands | Terence Kongolo (20) | Dirk Kuyt (33) | 26.46 |
England | Luke Shaw (18) | Frank Lampard (35) | 26.56 |
Algeria | Nabil Bentaleb (19) | Madjid Bougherra (31) | 26.60 |
Cameroon | Fabrice Olinga (18) | Samuel Eto'o (33) | 26.61 |
Bosnia | Sead Kolasinac (20) | Emir Spahic (33) | 27.05 |
France | Lucas Digne (20) | Mickael Landreau (35) | 27.08 |
Croatia | Mateo Kovacic (20) | Stipe Pletikosa (35) | 27.18 |
Japan | Gotoku Sakai (23) | Yasuhito Endo (34) | 27.23 |
Mexico | Diego Reyes (21) | Rafael Marquez (35) | 27.25 |
Costa Rica | Joel Campbell (21) | Patrick Pemberton (32) | 27.60 |
Ecuador | Carlos Gruezo (19) | Edison Mendez (35) | 27.78 |
USA | Julian Green (19) | Tim Howard (35) | 27.81 |
Ivory Coast | Sayouba Mande (21) | Didier Drogba (36) | 27.83 |
Colombia | Eder Alvarez Balanta (21) | Faryd Mondragon (42) | 27.87 |
Italy | Mattia Perin (21) | Gianluigi Buffon (36) | 27.90 |
Russia | Maksim Kanunnikov (22) | Sergei Ignashevich (34) | 27.97 |
Chile | Miiko Albornoz (23) | Esteban Paredes (33) | 27.99 |
Spain | Koke (22) | Xavi (34) | 28.24 |
Brazil | Bernard (21) | Julio Cesar (34) | 28.35 |
Iran | Alireza Jahanbakhsh (20) | Rahman Ahmadi (33) | 28.49 |
Greece | Stefanos Kapino (20) | Giorgos Karagounis (37) | 28.49 |
Portugal | Rafa Silva (21) | Ricardo Costa (33) | 28.52 |
Uruguay | Jose Maria Gimenez (19) | Diego Forlan (35) | 28.54 |
Honduras | Luis Lopez (20) | Noel Valladares (37) | 28.56 |
Argentina | Marcos Rojo (24) | Hugo Campagnaro (33) | 28.92 |
