I recently came across this interesting discussion in the Xpert Eleven forums regarding the minimum age of goalkeepers. You can easily find outfield players who are 16 years old, but there are no 16 year old goalkeepers.
Apparently, this is because the average age of retirement for goalkeepers in Xpert Eleven is one year more than that for outfield players and increasing minimum age for goalies makes up for the extra year they play.
This higher age of retirement reflects the situation in real world football. You just have to look at Portsmouth's (and England's) David James and Man United's (and Holland's) van der Sar -- both aged 38 -- to know that goalkeepers retire later than outfield players.
What was the skill/age of the best goalkeeper you ever received from your youth system? And what was the age of the oldest goalkeeper to play for your teams?
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Friday, February 20, 2009
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