Australia rewrote the record books when they crushed American Samoa 31-0 to establish a world record victory in an international in their Oceania qualifying group match today. Australia set the previous record on Monday when they beat Tonga 22-0.
Archie Thompson established an individual scoring record in international soccer with 14 goals - eight in the first half and six in the second. That is four more than the old record in international soccer of 10 goals held by Sofus Nielsen of Denmark and Gottfried Fuchs of Germany.
Nielsen scored 10 when Denmark beat France 17-1 in the 1908 Olympics and Fuchs scored 10 when Germany beat Russia 16-0 in the 1912 Olympics. (Reuters)
Filed by Sinéad Kissane
