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Emily van Egmond thanked her footballing coach dad on Sunday as she became the youngest Australian ever to score a World Cup goal.Van Egmond, who turns 18 next week, is the daughter of former men's footballer and now coach Gary van Egmond, a member of Australia's 1988 Olympic team.The Canberra United player, who made her senior debut against North Korea last year, scored her first international goal in the Matildas' 3-2 win over Equatorial Guinea on Sunday.

An Icelandic football team that became a global Internet hit after a fun goal celebration admitted they now felt under pressure to make fans laugh.Millions went online to watch the video on YouTube of Halldor Orri Bjornsson and his teammates celebrating a goal during a league match in July by pretending to fish and bringing in a player on an imaginary line."We did not expect celebrations from a team in a premier league in Iceland to get all this attention", Bjornsson said about Stjarnan FC's newfound stardom.

Fabian Moritz is not your average German football fan: he does not mind the relative goal drought at the World Cup and he wants England to do well.The 19-year-old may have just flunked his school leaving exams, but his remakes of World Cup matches using Lego figures have become a Internet sensation."Each goal takes between two and three hours to do," Moritz told AFP in the tiny "hobby room" in his parents' house in Laatzen in northern Germany where he works, fresh from staying up until 3:00 am on his latest creation.

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Manager Jose Mourinho promised attacking football and goals when he took over at Real Madrid in the summer but under his guidance Real have scored a meagre six goals in their first five league matches firing blanks again in Saturday's 0-0 draw at promoted Levante.It was the second time Real failed to score this season having drawn 0-0 at Real Mallorca on the opening day of the season and left Mourinho at a loss to explain why his side failed to convert their chances.