Cech, Ronaldo, Messi & Other Footballers Who've Made It Into Guinness Book Of World Records

Michezo01 October 2020 - 16:01

To some, winning the Grammy's is the ultimate prize for any musician in the world while for actors and actresses you have to win the Oscar's award to cement your name among the legends of the game.

Well for footballers, the World Cup, Champions League, European Championship, League trophy or the African cup is what every player dreams of attaining while representing their countries/ league teams but the Ballon d'Or is what casts the satellite on who'll go down as world's best player in a calendar year.

Well away from that, only a few know what it means to be featured in the Guinness book of world records. It means that once you get featured it simply translates to you being the best of the best at whatever you do. Be it swimming with the crocodiles, the number of piercings on your body or even how fast you can swallow 2-inch nails.

Thanks to extraordinary careers at the pinnacle of English football, Premier League stars Petr Cech and Gareth Barry have both won places in the much-coveted Guinness World Records 2017 book.

According to throughout a glittering career, playing for two of the country’s biggest clubs in Chelsea (04 – 15) and now Arsenal, Czechoslovakian stopper Petr has kept 181 clean sheets while playing in English football’s top division, a feat that has earned him the record for Most clean sheets in the Premier League by a football (soccer) goalkeeper.

Meanwhile, Gareth has made a career out of being consistent. Since making his debut at the age of 17 at Aston Villa, he has started 580 games, making him the title holder for Most starts for a Premier League football (soccer) player.

With the two in mind we take a look at a number of other footballers who have been featured in the book for the last two years courtesy of guinnessworldrecords.com.

• Leicester City: Largest rise in position in the Premier League, in consecutive seasons – 13 places, 14th to 1st

• Cristiano Ronaldo: Most followed athlete on Twitter – 47,262,909*** (as of 7 October 2016)

2016

· Most Champions League goals - Lionel Messi – 77 goals

· Oldest Player to Score in the Champions League – Francesco Totti aged 38 years and 59 days

· Youngest Player in a European Championship Qualifier – Martin Odegaard – 15 years 300 days for Norway

· Most Consecutive Wins of the African Player of the Year Award – Yaya Toure with four wins

· Most Goals Scored by a Goalkeeper – Rogerio Ceni with 124 goals for Sao Paulo

· Fastest time to be Sent off in a Copa Libertadores Match – Alejandro Bernal after just 27 seconds

· Most Goals Scored in International Football (female) – American Abby Wamach with 178 as of March 2015

·Most Tweeted Sporting Event – 2014 World Cup Final – Germany v Argentina - 618,725 tweets per min

·Longest Unbeaten Streak in the Bundesliga by a Player – Jerome Boateng – 56 matches between 3 Nov 2012 – 19 Dec 2014

·Most Consecutive International Losses – San Marino with 61 losses between 4 Sept – 14 Oct 2014

.Frank Lampard – Most Premier League teams scored against (38 teams)

.Chris Smalling – Fastest Goal in the Premier League by a Substitute from Kick Off (He earned the record for his two goals against Burnley last season when he scored the first 22 seconds after coming off the bench)

.Abby Wamach – Most Goals Scored in International Football (female) ( 178 goals as of March 2015

.And…Jamie Redknapp with the Fastest Three Point Turn (11.85secs) and Fastest Time to Drink a Cup of Hot Chocolate (5.14 seconds)

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