A world record that may never be broken<\/p>\n
Archie Thompson’s record-breaking 13-goal performance against American Samoa remains one of the most remarkable individual achievements in Australian football.<\/p>\n
The striker’s haul helped Australia record a 31-0 victory and set a benchmark that still stands today.<\/p>\n
Ryan knows all about it.<\/p>\n
“I mean, he’s told me about it himself,” he laughed.<\/p>\n
Despite the record, Ryan acknowledged that some moments simply carried greater significance.<\/p>\n
Behich focused on what scoring for Australia means, regardless of the opponent.<\/p>\n
“Any time I think you score, and especially if you score for your national team, it’s special,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It doesn’t matter who your opposition is. In the green and gold, I think it always means a lot more.”<\/p>\n
Burgess admitted the ranking challenge had left him with few options.<\/p>\n
“If you’re doing this, with the man himself, it would be number one,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Apologies. But I’m going to have to put it number five.”<\/p>\n
Whether it was Aloisi’s penalty, Redmayne’s shootout heroics or Cahill’s unforgettable volley, the challenge served as a reminder of the moments that continue to inspire the current generation of CommBank Socceroos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A world record that may never be broken Archie Thompson’s record-breaking 13-goal performance against American Samoa remains one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,44,85],"class_list":["post-743986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}