Paul Campbell 

Football quiz: who was the youngest …?

Marcus Rashford became the youngest Manchester United player to score in Europe on Thursday and then the youngest player to score a brace on his Premier League debut on Sunday. How much do you know about other youngsters?
  
  

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Marcus Rashford celebrates after scoring against Arsenal. Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images

  1. At the age of 17, who became the youngest footballer to play at a World Cup?

    1. Pelé

    2. Gerd Müller

    3. Diego Maradona

    4. Norman Whiteside

  2. Who is the youngest manager in the Bundesliga (he's still only 28)?

    1. Pál Dárdai

    2. André Breitenreiter

    3. Julian Nagelsmann

    4. Thomas Tuchel

  3. Who is England's youngest ever goalkeeper?

    1. Richard Wright

    2. Joe Hart

    3. Billy Moon

    4. Jack Butland

  4. Who became the youngest manager to lead a team in the Premier League at the age of 32?

    1. Alex Neil

    2. Chris Coleman

    3. Brendan Rodgers

    4. Garry Monk

  5. Who holds the record for being the youngest goalscorer in a Champions League final?

    1. Álvaro Morata

    2. Andriy Shevchenko

    3. Neymar

    4. Patrick Kluivert

  6. Whose goal against Macedonia made him the youngest player to score for England?

    1. Michael Owen

    2. Wayne Rooney

    3. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

    4. Micah Richards

  7. Who holds the record for being the youngest goalscoring debutant in the Premier League?

    1. Marcus Rashford

    2. Federico Macheda

    3. James Milner

    4. James Vaughan

  8. Who became the youngest player to score a hat-trick in the English top flight at the age of 16?

    1. Trevor Francis

    2. Alan Shearer

    3. Michael Owen

    4. Ronnie Dix

  9. Which 16-year-old became the youngest player to make an appearance in the Premier League in 2007?

    1. Jack Wilshere

    2. Aaron Lennon

    3. Matthew Briggs

    4. Izzy Brown

  10. Who holds the record for being the youngest manager to win a major European trophy?

    1. André Villas-Boas

    2. Gianluca Vialli

    3. Sven-Göran Eriksson

    4. Pep Guardiola

Solutions

1:D - Pelé is the youngest player to have scored in a World Cup final., 2:C - Nagelsmann is the youngest head coach in Bundesliga history., 3:D - Butland made his debut in 2012, breaking a record that had stood since Billy Moon first played for England in 1888., 4:B - The current Wales boss took over at Fulham back in May 2003., 5:D - Ajax 1-0 Milan, 1995., 6:B - Rooney, who was still playing for Everton, was 17 years old at the time. Two months later, in April 2003, he became the youngest player to start a match for England., 7:D - Vaughan was 16 years, eight months and 27 days old when he scored for Everton against Crystal Palace in 2005., 8:A - Francis was only 16 years and 317 days old when he scored three for Birmingham City against Bolton in 1971, 9:C - Briggs was playing for Fulham at the time and he has since represented six more English clubs – and he's still only 24., 10:A - Villas-Boas was only 33 when he won the Europa League with Porto

Scores

  1. 0 and above.

    Awful, awful, awful

  2. 1 and above.

    Dire

  3. 2 and above.

    Poor show

  4. 3 and above.

    Come on. You can do better than that

  5. 4 and above.

    Sorry to break it to you but that's a bad score

  6. 5 and above.

    You've done OK there

  7. 6 and above.

    You've done well there

  8. 7 and above.

    You've done very well there

  9. 8 and above.

    You star

  10. 9 and above.

    You hero

  11. 10 and above.

    Perfection

 

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