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Longest time between FIFA World Cup goals by a football (soccer) player

Longest time between FIFA World Cup goals by a football (soccer) player
Who
Michael Laudrup
What
12:16 year(s):day(s)
Where
France (Lyon)
When
24 June 1998

Michael Laudrup (Denmark) scored a penalty against France on 24 June 1998, 12 years 16 days after his previous FIFA World Cup goal against Uruguay on 8 June 1986. This gap between goals is just longer than that achieved by Ivica Olic (Croatia), who had to wait 12 years 10 days between his World Cup strikes on 8 June 2002 and 18 June 2014.