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Fabrice Olinga is Youngest World Cup 2014 Player

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Sun, 8 Jun 2014 Source: cameroonweb-basil k. mbuye

Out of the 736 players that will be taking part at the World cup tourney in Brazil, Cameroon's Fabrice Olinga, 18, is the youngest of all.

Olinga who is just was born on May 1996, is just 10 months younger than England's Luke Shaw.

Another Cameroonian player, Samuel Eto’o also set this same record at the 1998 World Cup in France when he was just 17 years three months, three months younger than another Cameroonian, Salomon Olembe who also took part in the 1998 World cup.

Meanwhile, for the average age of every squad at World Cup 2014, Argentina is the oldest; Ghana the youngest.

Ghana is the youngest with an average of just 25.44 and Argentina, by contrast, have the oldest squad, with an average age of 28.9.



Average age of each 2014 World Cup squad



























































Team

Youngest player

Oldest player

Average age

Ghana

Rashid Sumaila (21)

Michael Essen (31)

25.44

Belgium

Divock Origi (19)

Daniel van Buyten (36)

25.66

Nigeria

Kenneth Omeruo (20)

Joseph Yobo (33)

25.81

Switzerland

Granit Xhaka (21)

Steve von Bergen (31)

26.06

South Korea

Son Heung-Min (21)

Kwak Tae-Hwi (32)

26.19

Germany

Matthias Ginter (20)

Miroslav Klose (36)

26.31

Australia

Adam Taggart (21)

Tim Cahill (34)

26.36

Netherlands

Terence Kongolo (20)

Dirk Kuyt (33)

26.46

England

Luke Shaw (18)

Frank Lampard (35)

26.56

Algeria

Nabil Bentaleb (19)

Madjid Bougherra (31)

26.60

Cameroon

Fabrice Olinga (18)

Samuel Eto'o (33)

26.61

Bosnia

Sead Kolasinac (20)

Emir Spahic (33)

27.05

France

Lucas Digne (20)

Mickael Landreau (35)

27.08

Croatia

Mateo Kovacic (20)

Stipe Pletikosa (35)

27.18

Japan

Gotoku Sakai (23)

Yasuhito Endo (34)

27.23

Mexico

Diego Reyes (21)

Rafael Marquez (35)

27.25

Costa Rica

Joel Campbell (21)

Patrick Pemberton (32)

27.60

Ecuador

Carlos Gruezo (19)

Edison Mendez (35)

27.78

USA

Julian Green (19)

Tim Howard (35)

27.81

Ivory Coast

Sayouba Mande (21)

Didier Drogba (36)

27.83

Colombia

Eder Alvarez Balanta (21)

Faryd Mondragon (42)

27.87

Italy

Mattia Perin (21)

Gianluigi Buffon (36)

27.90

Russia

Maksim Kanunnikov (22)

Sergei Ignashevich (34)

27.97

Chile

Miiko Albornoz (23)

Esteban Paredes (33)

27.99

Spain

Koke (22)

Xavi (34)

28.24

Brazil

Bernard (21)

Julio Cesar (34)

28.35

Iran

Alireza Jahanbakhsh (20)

Rahman Ahmadi (33)

28.49

Greece

Stefanos Kapino (20)

Giorgos Karagounis (37)

28.49

Portugal

Rafa Silva (21)

Ricardo Costa (33)

28.52

Uruguay

Jose Maria Gimenez (19)

Diego Forlan (35)

28.54

Honduras

Luis Lopez (20)

Noel Valladares (37)

28.56

Argentina

Marcos Rojo (24)

Hugo Campagnaro (33)

28.92

Source: cameroonweb-basil k. mbuye
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