Václav Mašek

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Václav Mašek (born March 21, 1941), is a Czech football player. He was a member of the Czechoslovakia national football team, for which he played 16 matches and scored 5 goals.

He was a participant in the 1962 FIFA World Cup, where his country won the 2nd place, losing to Brazil in the finals. In a match against Mexico, he became famous for scoring a goal after only 16 seconds of play, the fastest goal in World Cup history until forty years later, when his record was beaten by Hakan Şükür of Turkey, by scoring after 11 seconds in the 3rd place match of the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

He played 313 league matches and scored 127 goals for Czechoslovakian club AC Sparta Praha.

v • d • e Czechoslovakia squad - 1962 FIFA World Cup Runners-up

1 Schrojf • 2 Lála • 3 Popluhár • 4 Novák • 5 Pluskal • 6 Masopust • 7 Štibrányi • 8 Scherer • 9 Molnár • 10 Adamec • 11 Jelínek • 12 Tichý • 13 Schmucker • 14 Mašek • 15 Koiš • 16 Buberník • 17 Pospíchal • 18 Kadraba • 19 Kvašňák • 20 Borovička • 21 Bomba • 22 Kouba • Coach: Vytlačil