{"id":23640,"date":"2024-03-24T08:02:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T08:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/baumgartner-breaks-paul-onuachus-fastest-goal-history\/"},"modified":"2024-03-24T08:02:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T08:02:36","slug":"baumgartner-breaks-paul-onuachus-fastest-goal-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/baumgartner-breaks-paul-onuachus-fastest-goal-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Baumgartner breaks Paul Onuachu\u2019s fastest goal history"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Christoph Baumgartner of Austria has broken a history held by Super Eagles striker, Paul Onuachu.<\/p>\n<p>The RB Leipzig midfielder scored the fastest-ever international goal as Austria beat Slovakia 2-0 in a friendly on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The goal came in just six seconds after kickoff as the midfielder fired into the bottom corner after skipping past three challenges.<\/p>\n<p>He has now taken the record from Germany\u2019s Lukas Podolski, who scored for Germany after seven seconds in a friendly against Ecuador in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Onuachu held the record of the fastest goal scored in an international involving an African team after he found back of the net ten seconds in a friendly between Nigeria and Egypt at the Stephen Keshi Stadium on March 27, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In the Iranian Professional League, Godwin Mensha, an unknown Nigerian player, also has a record of the fastest recorded goal scored by a Nigerian player, opening the scoring after just eight seconds in Mes Rafsanjan\u2019s 4-0 win against Malavan in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Baumgartner breaks Paul Onuachu\u2019s fastest goal history<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christoph Baumgartner of Austria has broken a history held by Super Eagles striker, Paul Onuachu. The RB Leipzig midfielder scored&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12770,15,12771,160],"tags":[12772,180,3374,2325,201],"class_list":["post-23640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baumgartner","category-news","category-paul-onuachu","category-sport","tag-baumgartner","tag-news","tag-onuachu","tag-paul","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}