Giggs, Maldini and the other stars who played at the age of forty

Cristiano Ronaldo will remain with victory until 2027 after signing a Extending the contract for two years.

After speculation that his time with the Saudi Professional League may end, Ronaldo put the pen on the paper on a deal, if he sees that, he will see him playing with victory until he is 42 years old.

Manchester United legend and Real Madrid showed the great life in a profession also with a Sporting Lisbon and Juventus player.

But it is far from the first big game of the game to continue playing well in the 1940s.

Here we look at five players that mimic Ronaldo by continuing to play after forty years, including three World Cup winners.

Ryan Giggs

After it exploded to the scene when he was an early teenager in the early 1990s, and he claimed a place when United began the left demise before Sharp, Giggs was fixed in the United team until the end of the 2014 season.

The decision was taken to hang his shoes only six months before his fortieth birthday.

Giggs came out of the bench in the 2008 Champions League final to play alongside Ronaldo and help his Portuguese teammate winning this cup for the first time. Welsh scored in United’s victory, which helped atone for the former Miss Ronaldo.

This was the first of five Champions League titles for Ronaldo. This was the last five international club clips for Giggs, who won 35 amazing over his career.

Giggs appeared 32 games in the penultimate season in 2012-13, when United used the title from Manchester City in Alex Ferguson’s final campaign as director.

His last season witnessed the appointment of the player of the coach of David Moyes. Giggs ended the campaign as a temporary manager, appointed in April after Mouise felt relief from his duties.

Francesco Totti

In continuing a topic, Totti was another man, one club, spent his entire career with Rome.

Totti appeared for the first time when he was 16 years old in 1993, and as a number of abundant striker midfielders, he became the most popular player in the history of Rome.

Its 250 goals are ranked second in the history of the first division, 13 of whom are coming in the 2000-01 campaign that presented the latest Scudetto in Rome. Five years after this victory, Totti raised the World Cup with Italy.

After that, Totti won the Coppa Italia twice in the successive seasons of Rome, with whom he ended his career in 2017 when he was 40 years old.

His last appearance came on May 28 of that year, when Mohamed Salah replaced in the 54th minute of victory over Genoa, where he got a cosecase from the Astadio Astadio Mobilization.

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Paulo Maldini

It can be said that the greatest defender ever, Maldini began his career with AC Milan in 1984 and remained with Rossoneri until he retired in 2009.

The legendary central back, who can also work as the left -back, has won the Scudetto seven times, which is an integral part of the Milan team, which controlled the early 1990s.

Maldini also raised the Champions League five times, although glory with Italy abandoned him. It was part of the Azuri team, which suffered from the sorrow of a penalty kick in the 1994 World Cup final.

In total, Maldini made 902 games to Milan. He later became his sports director, with his work in the transportation market to Milan Scudetto in the 2021-22 season.

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Romario

While Giggs, Totti and Maldini all spent their career with one club, Romario was Bedouin while playing in his forties.

After he started his career with Vasco Da Gama in 1985, Romario enjoyed seizures with PsV Einhoven, Barcelona and Valencia among a group of other stations.

He had four separate periods in Vasco and three in Flamingo. Romario also played with Fluminense in his homeland, where the Brazilian took his talents to Saudi Arabia, the United States and Australia.

Romario won three titles in Erdivisi with PSV and Crown Laliga with Barcelona. However, his Al -Tuweji’s achievement came in the 1994 World Cup, where he won the Golden Ball, where Brazil defeated Italy over the title.

He retired in 2008 at the age of 42, only to leave a year after a year to play with the American -based American side, citing the desires of his late father.

Incredibly, Romario came out of retirement again last year and was registered as president of America at the age of 58 to play alongside his son Romarinho. Technically, there is still a remarkable long career.

Stanley Matthews

One of the greatest football players ever produced by England has laid Matthews standards for a long life with a profession from 1932 to 1965.

The man known as “Wizard of Drible” has officially played more than 800 professional games, spent 19 years of his career with Stoke City and 14 with BlackPool.

However, this number does not count the manifestations of Matthews during World War II, a period in which he played 69 times for Suk and made 87 games with Blackpool. Matthews also played with many Scottish aspects, including Rangers, as well as a game for the eleventh Scotland, and Larsenal’s husband. The war years also witnessed to participate in 29 unofficial games in England.

Matthews played in the 1950 and 1954 World Cup, although the achievement that meant more arrived in 1953 when he finally won with the FA Cup with Blackpool, inspiring them to fight from 3-1 to bottom to Bolton Wandeers 4-3.

Three years later, Matthews became the first winner of Ballon D’or, an achievement that made it more prominent of the fact that he came at the age of 41.

Stoke Matthews signed his second talisman at the age of 46, and played his last football league match on February 6, 1965, a 3-1 victory over Fulham who brought the curtain over a profession he saw becoming the only player who was going while he was still playing.