Messi, Cristiano, Modric: "The Old" Continue to Teach the Way

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This World Cup teaches us footballers who long ago stopped competing against other players to do it against time, against biology, against a narrative that insists on retiring them before they are prepared to leave “Pause of hydration”: the dead times that change the essence of football For years we were sold that football was an increasingly young sport. That speed devoured everything. That from the age of thirty the clock began an irreversible…

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This World Cup reminds us that there are footballers who long ago started to play another game. In addition to facing their rivals, they challenge the passage of time, the limits of the body and a narrative that pushes them towards retirement before they themselves decide to take that step. For years they sold us that football was an increasingly young sport. That speed devoured everything. That from the age of thirty the clock began an irrevers…