Tripitaka:


I didn't upload those pictures. The moderator probably edited my post.

creolehunt:


Lol. They all lie about their age, whether African, Asian or European. Just very few of them are innocent of this. Come to my street and see 40yr old men playing almost every evening. Despite the rough tackles and bruises.

Claudiusdeux:


Well

1.Your cousin is not also playing international football during weekdays. Many of these players have played internaitonal football several times over the past few months. Cheslea has several players who are internaitonals for their country

2.Your cousin does not train like a professional footballer. Professional footballers also do hours upon hours of training...in addtion to the regular training they do for games. That tries them out.They ahve to do fitness training and football training....because they have to be at the top of their game constantly

3.In addtion to international matches, Cheslea players also play in the Champions leauge, that's addtional football training.

4.Also, how long does your borther play. Street football is not always 90 minutes, plus it is played at a slower pace, than the football played in the Premier league (and English football is typically fast).

On average, a Premier league player for Cheslea since the season came back, has to play football at least 3-4 times a week, 90 minutes, and in order to play that footy, he has to travel constantly...especially when he is playing Champions league and Internaitonals.

Far more than your bro who only plays two games of footy, at not quite the same pace, twice a week, and does not have to travel to Kano to play in the Aiteo cup, and then Lagos to play in the MTN cup...and to Abdijan to play for Nigeria on Wednesday....

And let's not forget..the FA and League cup are coming up...more games.

creolehunt:


Lol. They all lie about their age, whether African, Asian or European. Just very few of them are innocent of this. Come to my street and see 40yr old men playing almost every evening. Despite the rough tackles and bruises.

Tripitaka:

There are some though who I believe are honest with their age. What beats me is why a footballer will retire around 34 to 35 considering they have everything to enable them play into their 40s. Unless age is against them, you know one can't cheat nature.

Nb: I wonder why my OP was edited to add a picture that doesn't even strengthen my argument

Tripitaka:


I get your point but the fact that these professional footballers get the best of everything which the street footballer doesn't, should compensate for everything.

They have access to world class training grounds, clinically designed pitches, personalized training routine, top psychologists, top nutritionists and dietitians plus top sporting gears that have been designed to bring the best out of them.

You said they play 3-4 times a week, I hope you know that's an overstatement. Typically, teams play once a week, apart from weeks when they have to play in Europe or midweek league games. Rarely does a team play thrice in a week.

Tripitaka:
Every weekend i watch the EPL, i keep pondering on this. Are European footballers really innocent of Age Fraud as the media will like us to believe? Is age fraud really just an African or South American thing?

I just read where Lampard was blaming fatigue for his players inability to perform in the defeat against Wolves and I couldn't help but wonder where the fatigue stemmed from exactly. They last played on Saturday against Everton which gives them 3 solid days to rest, yet these guys say they are fatigued? How?

Football is played for 90mins split into two halves of 45mins with a 15min break between halves. Yet, they talk about fatigue? Mind you, they do not run marathons on the pitch, for the most part, they jog around, sometimes walk, they only move at full speed when going on counters or trying to stop one. So how cant these guys perform optimally twice in a week?

For context, I have a cousin who is a football freak. At 33, he plays on Friday evenings and Sunday mornings every week. But never says he is too tired to play the next week. How then can a professional footballer who has access to world class training grounds, clinically designed pitches, personalized training routine, top psychologists, top nutritionists and dietitians, top sporting gears that have been designed to bring the best out of them tell me he is too tired too play, unless his biological clock is ticking.

The local street footballers even play everyday on tattered boots, terrible ground with zero protection. Most of them do menial jobs, eat carbohydrate laden foods 80% of the time, have no rest, yet can play for 2hrs everyday.

How can a footballer retire at 33 to 35 saying he can't play a 90mins game anymore for once a week? I really can't wrap my head around this. Personally, I believe most of them may not be as young as they will like us to believe.

tot:


Oh okay, didn't realise mods could do that.

ednut1:
They have database. You cannot forge age na. In their primary and secondary schools every one in a class is the same age. So how you wan fake the age

Tripitaka:


I was surprised to see the image added to the OP. An image I've never seen. What even makes it more curious is the fact that I can't edit the post.

ednut1:
They have database. You cannot forge age na. In their primary and secondary schools every one in a class is the same age. So how you wan fake the age

PenuelFarms:
Most of you guys must have forgotten the Saudi team that knocked Nigeria out at the quarter-final stage of the FIFA JVC U-16 World Cup, Scotland 1989. Saudi Arabia went on to win the tournament. I don't think any one in the Saudi team should be less than 23-24.

That experience with Saudi Arabia shows clearly that values are quite separate from religion.

PenuelFarms:
Most of you guys must have forgotten the Saudi team that knocked Nigeria out at the quarter-final stage of the FIFA JVC U-16 World Cup, Scotland 1989. Saudi Arabia went on to win the tournament. I don't think any one in the Saudi team should be less than 23-24.

That experience with Saudi Arabia shows clearly that values are quite separate from religion.

stagger:


I remember watching that match and wondering how those "U-16"guys were all carrying mustache and beards?

Tripitaka:
Every weekend i watch the EPL, i keep pondering on this. Are European footballers really innocent of Age Fraud as the media will like us to believe? Is age fraud really just an African or South American thing?

I just read where Lampard was blaming fatigue for his players inability to perform in the defeat against Wolves and I couldn't help but wonder where the fatigue stemmed from exactly. They last played on Saturday against Everton which gives them 3 solid days to rest, yet these guys say they are fatigued? How?

Football is played for 90mins split into two halves of 45mins with a 15min break between halves. Yet, they talk about fatigue? Mind you, they do not run marathons on the pitch, for the most part, they jog around, sometimes walk, they only move at full speed when going on counters or trying to stop one. So how cant these guys perform optimally twice in a week?

For context, I have a cousin who is a football freak. At 33, he plays on Friday evenings and Sunday mornings every week. But never says he is too tired to play the next week. How then can a professional footballer who has access to world class training grounds, clinically designed pitches, personalized training routine, top psychologists, top nutritionists and dietitians, top sporting gears that have been designed to bring the best out of them tell me he is too tired too play, unless his biological clock is ticking.

The local street footballers even play everyday on tattered boots, terrible ground with zero protection. Most of them do menial jobs, eat carbohydrate laden foods 80% of the time, have no rest, yet can play for 2hrs everyday.

How can a footballer retire at 33 to 35 saying he can't play a 90mins game anymore for once a week? I really can't wrap my head around this. Personally, I believe most of them may not be as young as they will like us to believe.

babzo:
Difficult to do age cheat in the West. The day you are born, multiple records of your birth are made to different government establishments.
E.g. in the US, your local government school district will start hinting your family when it's time for primary school etc, how did they know your age? It's been sent every where.
At what point would a person start lying then?
When you are 23 and what to pretend you are 13? With all the record keeping, etc.
Every school in the West also has class photographs every year. If you are 13 in the equivalent of JS2 or 3; at 24 you want to claim JS2 again?
Age sports in the West is also by school. Infact all the sports in the West are by school. To get into the NFL ( National Football League), you must have gone to University, infact I think even to get into Major League Soccer.

Every American has a Social Security Number with your date of birth; it can't be changed. I believe similar in Europe.

The difference is diet. Check a 14 year old in America or England who was born there and if he has cousins that are same age in Ghana or Nigeria.
If our kids eat balanced diet, we can have 16 year old too who are developed.
Eating a bowl or eba with 1 meat at night won't make you develop well.

babzo:
Difficult to do age cheat in the West. The day you are born, multiple records of your birth are made to different government establishments.
E.g. in the US, your local government school district will start hinting your family when it's time for primary school etc, how did they know your age? It's been sent every where.
At what point would a person start lying then?
When you are 23 and what to pretend you are 13? With all the record keeping, etc.
Every school in the West also has class photographs every year. If you are 13 in the equivalent of JS2 or 3; at 24 you want to claim JS2 again?
Age sports in the West is also by school. Infact all the sports in the West are by school. To get into the NFL ( National Football League), you must have gone to University, infact I think even to get into Major League Soccer.

Every American has a Social Security Number with your date of birth; it can't be changed. I believe similar in Europe.

The difference is diet. Check a 14 year old in America or England who was born there and if he has cousins that are same age in Ghana or Nigeria.
If our kids eat balanced diet, we can have 16 year old too who are developed.
Eating a bowl or eba with 1 meat at night won't make you develop well.

Beverlyjean:
Europeans hv a data base

Ronaldo and young mbappe
Suarez and young de ligt

creolehunt:


Lol. They all lie about their age, whether African, Asian or European. Just very few of them are innocent of this. Come to my street and see 40yr old men playing almost every evening. Despite the rough tackles and bruises.

DaSailor:
I no know sha, but to cheat for Europe go hard, cos as dem born you that day you don enter system.
Then comes when you enrol for school(KG, Pro or Secondary), your date of birth must be same.
You think say Rooney or Beckham mate go keep quiet when he finds out he is now 6 years older than both of them when they attended same primary school?
Na so for 2005 my primary school captain go AYC U-20 for Benin Republic and all of a sudden I was 6 years older than him when in reality he is a year older than I am, he was 25 then and he claimed he was 19!!

Tripitaka:
Every weekend i watch the EPL, i keep pondering on this. Are European footballers really innocent of Age Fraud as the media will like us to believe? Is age fraud really just an African or South American thing?

I just read where Lampard was blaming fatigue for his players inability to perform in the defeat against Wolves and I couldn't help but wonder where the fatigue stemmed from exactly. They last played on Saturday against Everton which gives them 3 solid days to rest, yet these guys say they are fatigued? How?

Football is played for 90mins split into two halves of 45mins with a 15min break between halves. Yet, they talk about fatigue? Mind you, they do not run marathons on the pitch, for the most part, they jog around, sometimes walk, they only move at full speed when going on counters or trying to stop one. So how cant these guys perform optimally twice in a week?

For context, I have a cousin who is a football freak. At 33, he plays on Friday evenings and Sunday mornings every week. But never says he is too tired to play the next week. How then can a professional footballer who has access to world class training grounds, clinically designed pitches, personalized training routine, top psychologists, top nutritionists and dietitians, top sporting gears that have been designed to bring the best out of them tell me he is too tired too play, unless his biological clock is ticking.

The local street footballers even play everyday on tattered boots, terrible ground with zero protection. Most of them do menial jobs, eat carbohydrate laden foods 80% of the time, have no rest, yet can play for 2hrs everyday.

How can a footballer retire at 33 to 35 saying he can't play a 90mins game anymore for once a week? I really can't wrap my head around this. Personally, I believe most of them may not be as young as they will like us to believe.

pickatyouu:
Some south americans and some europeans also falsify age, it's a general thing just that africa took it way over board to give them selves more time to hustle and make it.

Tripitaka:

There are some though who I believe are honest with their age. What beats me is why a footballer will retire around 34 to 35 considering they have everything to enable them play into their 40s. Unless age is against them, you know one can't cheat nature.

Nb: I wonder why my OP was edited to add a picture that doesn't even strengthen my argument

PropertyVendor:


Then they should be able to play till their forties.. since it's their real age and not retire at 34 or 33

mokkalu1:

You can't play football into late 30s. It's an intensive sport. Your muscle strength starts declining after 30. Speed reduces very well too. Those men can still be very skillful, but most can handle the physical requirement of high-profile matches.