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The defender of Saudi Arabia left his mark on the negative Arabic number in the history of the World Cup
Arab teams continued their disastrous numbers at the 2026 World Cup in America, Canada and Mexico, especially in terms of own goals.
Saudi Arabia’s national team met its Spanish counterpart on SundayAt the “Mercedes-Benz” stadium in Atlanta, USA, in the second round of the group stage of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
In the fourth minute of the second half, the defender of the Saudi Arabian team, Hassan Timbukti, mistakenly scored the fourth ball of the Spanish team in his own goal.
Spanish full-back Mark Cucurella sent a powerful ball from inside the penalty area that was brilliantly saved by goalkeeper Mohamed Al Owais, but it collided with Hassan Timbukti and into the net.
And according to Statusfoot network For statistics, Hassan Timbukti became the first Saudi football player in the history of World Cups to score an own goal.
In total, it became the eighth own goal in the current World Cup and the most in World Cup history after Russia 2018 (12).
The strange thing is that 5 of the 8 own goals at the 2026 World Cup came from the feet of the Arabs, since the start came from the Egyptian full-back Mohamed Hani in the first round match with Belgium (1-1).
Iraqi striker Ayman Hussain also scored an own goal in the 1-4 loss to Norway, as did Jordan defender Yazan Al-Arab in the 1-3 loss to Norway, as well as Qatar’s Mohamed Al-Mannai in the 6-0 rout of Canada.
Thus, Arab teams have scored as many own goals in the 2026 World Cup as they have scored in the history of the World Cup since the first start in 1930 until the last game in Qatar (5).
As for the other own goals, they were scored by Damian Bobadia of Paraguay in the 1-4 loss to America, Miro Mauheim of Switzerland in the draw with Qatar (1-1) and Cameron Burgess of Australia also in the loss to America (2-0).
