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13 seconds! 91m sling shot! The 38-year-old world record holder competed in the English Championship and played for two countries

5:13pm, 1 August 2025Football

Leicester City, which has been relegated to the Championship in the new season, recently quietly completed a signing. 38-year-old Bosnian goalkeeper Begovic joined the team in a sign-free form, with a contract of one year. The 1.99-meter-tall goalkeeper will continue to write his wandering but tenacious professional chapter as the substitute goalkeeper of the Blue Foxes in the new season.

Looking back at Begovic's career, although it is not a legend, it is also exciting enough. Especially this 38-year-old goalkeeper still maintains a world record that is unprecedented and is very likely to be a future generation.

That was the 10th Premier League match against Southampton in the 2013/14 season. Only 13 seconds into the game, Begovic, who played for Stoke City at the time, received a return pass in his penalty area. Facing the pressing from Southampton players, he kicked off without hesitation. The ball whistled with the help of the wind, crossed the heads of the other 21 players on the field. After bounced in front of the opponent's penalty area, it strangely jumped over the head of the opponent's goalkeeper Boruc. The ball magically responded into the net. Compared with the crazy celebrations of Stoke City players, the Southampton players were standing there at this time, with confusion and helplessness on their faces written on them. The flight distance of

91.9 meters surpassed the 90-meter record of Tottenham goalkeeper Jennings in 1967, and was certified by Guinness as the farthest goal in football history. It also scored in 13 seconds at the beginning, breaking the goalkeeper's fastest goal record, with the original record of 23 seconds.

Begovich's career has been in Portsmouth, Laruville, Bournemouth, Yoville, Ipswich, Stoke City, Chelsea, Karabach, AC Milan, Everton, Queen's Park Rangers and today's Leicester City, covering many other teams, including the Premier League, the Championship, the Belgian League, the Azerbaijani League, Serie A and other venues. But his most successful record in his career so far was that as the Blues' substitute goalkeeper, he followed Chelsea to win the Premier League championship that season.

In addition to having a world record, he has played for too many teams in his career and has traveled to multiple courts. Begovic's national team career also makes fans talk about it. Due to the war, Begovic moved to Canada with his family when he was a child. Begovic once made a debut in the 2007 U20 World Cup hosted by Canada. In his first game of the group stage, he made several key saves when he lost to the Chilean U20 national team 0-3. In the last round of the group stage, Canada lost 0-2 to Congo, Begovic was sent off for destroying his opponent's goal opportunity when he was handball outside the penalty area. On August 14, 2007, Begovic received his first call from the Canadian national team and served as a substitute in an international friendly match with Iceland, but did not get a chance to play. In November 2008, Begovic was called to the national team again in the 2010 World Cup qualifiers against Jamaica, but since Hillsfield was the absolute main goalkeeper of the Canadian national team at this time, Begovic still had no chance to play. He missed the opportunity to participate in the 2009 Golden Cup in the Americas as Portsmouth asked Begovic to stay on the team during pre-season training for the 2009/10 season.

In this way, since he has never made a debut on behalf of the Canadian national team in the official game, he gave Bosnia and Herzegovina a chance. On August 21, 2009, Begovic accepted the call for the Bosnia-Herzegovina, participated in two qualifiers in the 2010 World Cup, and in the World Cup qualifiers against Estonia 2-0, Begovic made his substitute in the 92nd minute and made his first appearance on behalf of the adult national team.

The boy who came out of the war to the creator of the Guinness record; from Chelsea champion member to the Championship substitute, from Canada to the goalkeeper of Bosnia and Herzegovich engraved himself into the history of football with a shocking 91.9-meter shot, and also interpreted the dignity of the goalkeeper with more than 20 years of persistence! ! !

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