Spain's Unai Simon becomes the most unbeatable goalkeeper in World Cup history

At the 2026 tournament, he kept clean sheets against Cape Verde, Saudi Arabia, Uruguay, and Austria—the first three in the group stage and Austria in the Round of 32—for a total of 360 minutes.

Those were added to the 159 consecutive minutes he recorded at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Although Spain was eliminated by Morocco in a penalty shootout in the Round of 16, Simón did not concede during the 120 minutes of play. Before that, he had already gone the final 39 minutes of Spain's group-stage loss to Japan without allowing another goal after Ao Tanaka scored the eventual winner in the 51st minute on December 1, 2022—the last time Simón was beaten in a World Cup match.

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