Traditionally 34/35 was the end and you retired, or maybe went down to the lower divisions, or off to America/ the Middle East in a weak league for a retirement package if you were high level
But now we've got Dani Alves at 39 taking Brazil's free kicks, Messi at 35 still easily the best player in the world and Ronaldo at 37 getting this contract
https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/cristiano-ronaldo-new-club-transfer-latest-al-nassr-b1044045.html?amp
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18!? That’s nuts.
I’d imagine you stay good into your mid thirties in thjs sport, yes?
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The US players look like grunts to me. Good at running and kicking people, little else.
The four favs are Brazil, Argentina, France and Spain - which seems about right.
As a football purist, I either want the Argies to win just because Messi is a footballing God, or Spain because their midfield is just perfection. Gavi and Pedri are an education in football.
Gavi only recently turned 18 and is already one of the best players in the world
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Well, this is a tomb. I'll make them feel at home

I’ve never once seen a game.
In the USA, nobody watches football. We call it soccer and football refers to a completely different sport, which you probably know. I think this is probably because of our history of fighting the UK. We changed how we write words in trite little random acts of defiance. And we developed our own “national sport” to obsess over.
So, it’s nothing like the excitement you get to have when your team does well. That was probably awesome to see
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I actually don’t care at all about football but it was really exciting when they won the last World Cup and I did actually watch the final game.

Ugh.
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France