Is 55 Too Old To Play Professional Football?

[piggynose]

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/64488275

[Atheist]

If you can find someone willing to pay you for playing, then go for it!

[bobbinwales]

not in case, good luck to him. WOuldnt be able to do it in Premier League pr La Liga but he's found a good level what suits him

[Atheist]

Sorry, Piggy. I didn't examine your link, so my reply was probably irrelevant to you.

[bobbinwales]

^not in HIS case...

[piggynose]

wasnt Stanley Mathews 50 when he stopped playing?

[ToraToraTora]

On the other end they say if you are good enough you are old enough so I guess similarly if you are good enough you are you are young enough too.

[Arksided]

Yes he were Piggynose I had to double check that, as for the Player in the OP good on him... legs still working well so can't have being picked much as Professional, before hand.

[Togo]

Sir Stan played his final game of football for an England Veterans XI against a Brazil Veterans XI in Brazil in 1985. Aged 70. He damaged a cartilage during the match and in his autobiography wrote of "a promising career cut tragically short".

[Hopkirk]

I think I have to accept now I'm not going get a professional contract. I'm 63.

[piggynose]

Yes but could you pass for 55? Hoppy.

[bobbinwales]

I was a slow developer, didnt make the school team till i was 26

[piggynose]

At school I played in my favoured position, left back in the dressing room!

[Hopkirk]

I may be too old now, but in my day I was ..... rubbish.

[Ken4155]

Quite a prolific goal-scorer when playing in his native Japan. Not so much these days, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuyoshi_Miura