Brazil's Neymar Jr Scores The Fastest Goal In Olympic Football History, Just 15 Seconds After KickOff

Well, if you had any reservations about Brazil keeping it's footballing WMD, Neymar Jr away from the Copa America Centennial with Olympics in sight, this will prove to the world that the Selecao got it right!

Neymar scores the record breaking goal. Source: Twitter/Rio2016

Neymar Jr has now broken the record the fastest goal scored in Olympic Football with his opening goal against Honduras at Rio's legendary Maracana Stadium last night. In fact, the games tweet confirms that he was just 5.42 seconds slower that Usain Bolt's 100m world record; cheeky!

Neymar's goal vs Honduras, the fastest goal scored in Olympic! pic.twitter.com/leH77zqOpE

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It looked like this feat will however end in disaster for the Brazilians as Neymar collision with Luis Lopez in the build up to his opening goal hurt him badly and he was stretchered off after receiving treatment.

OFFICIAL: Neymar's goal confirmed at 15 seconds.
The fastest goal in #Olympics #football history pic.twitter.com/FrsnA3wIXa

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But you couldn't really keep him down and he was back on field in few minutes and provided two more assists for the team before finishing up his brace from the spot in injury time.

Brazil won the game 6-0 and now proceed to Saturday's gold medal game against the Germans.