43 days to go: Colombia’s golden oldie

43 years and 3 days – that was a age of Colombia goalkeeper Faryd Mondragon when he came on in a 85th notation of his country’s organisation compare opposite Japan during a 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™, creation him a oldest actor ever to seem during a universe finals. An new member of a Cafetera patrol during USA 1994 and Colombia’s first-choice screw during France 1998, Mondragon eclipsed a prior record set by Cameroon’s Roger Milla.

“As shortly as we scored a third idea [Colombian manager Jose] Pekerman pronounced to me: ‘Come on! Come on! You’re going on!’” removed a Colombian, who entered a ravel with his side heading 3-1 in a compare they would eventually win 4-1. “So we pulled my jersey and gloves on as quick as we could. we was so vehement and a adrenaline was pumping.”

While Milla hold his record for 20 years, Mondragon could be losing his really shortly; mythological Egypt screw Essam El Hadary will be 45 years and 5 months aged when a Pharaohs step out during Russia 2018.

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