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The World's Game (According to Us)

By Austin Kelley

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

There was a time when the only distinction between us and a world-class soccer player was a brilliant first touch and a garage full of Bentleys. But then -- we don't know how this happened! -- we realized all the great players were much younger than us. It's not like we at WGATU are geezers by most standards, but look at Arsenal, the tween team. The average age of their starting 11 against Villareal in the Champions League was 22-and-a-half. If we suddenly discovered a pill (er, training regim ...

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