The Making of Marcus Rashford

That he remembers all of that should not, really, be a surprise. Soccer players age in a curious way. They seem, in some lights, eternally young, the consequence of a life lived exclusively in the pursuit of their profession, stripped of any and all experiences that are not directly related to on-field performance. From another angle, they are prematurely old, teenagers and young adults eroded, a little, by the sorts of intense pressures few of us encounter so early in our careers.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/sports/soccer/marcus-rashford-charity.html