Milan Determined to Keep That ‘Oldest Team on Earth’ Title
By: Martha | May 4th, 2007
Just to make sure the addition of spring chickens (Read: Players younger than 35.) like Massimo Oddo and wee Yoann Gourcuff doesn’t put them in danger of decreasing their team age to reasonable levels, Milan today extended the contract of old man Cafu for another year. When the new contract expires at the close of May next year, the Brazilian will be just a few days short of his 38th birthday, an age that is become positively normal around the San Siro.
What’s so insane about the ancient Rosoneri, though, is less their ages than how freaking productive they still are. Despite being nearly 37, Cafu can still run for days without ever losing his smile and, even though his knees make it hard for him to actually walk, Paolo Maldini is still a better defender than most of the people half his age in the league, and is more respected than the lot of them. It puts the rest of us to shame, that’s for damn sure — I nearly expired try to run three miles the other day.
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Aww, that’s so true about Maldini *knocks on wood*
Rosoneri looks a lot like Palermo’s nickname (with one s)
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Palermo is Rosaneri
(pink-blacks) while Milan is Rosoneri (red-blacks)
It’s an Italian thing.Posted from
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I think its great that people slowly understand that age dossent matter in football
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Taking the daring approach to cross sports, does that mean Milan’s really older than the Mets?
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