At the age of 40, the age when many players have “warm warm -up”, Ashley Young still retains the fire of passion for the ball by signing an additional 1 year contract with Ipswich. As with his name, Young seems to be “young forever not old”.
In the past, when the surface of the yard was only mud, short shorts and everyone had a beard, it was not easy to prolong the football career.
Each new contract of the players in addition to 30 is like a step closer to … mastering the pub, because each salary is valuable in the period when the player must not “ensure life after retirement”.
Health and physical regime were not yet developed, so playing football until the age of 40 was extremely rare – usually only goalkeeper like John Burridge or Kevin Poole was lucky enough to do that.
Ashley Young has no reason to stop soon. As a player in the position of not a goalkeeper – who has earned millions of pounds per season for nearly 20 years, but he still wants to continue playing football. Football Daily joked that Young was probably enough to buy a pub from the time of kicking for Watford – where he debuted in 2003, right week the song “Where is the Love?” of Black Eyed Peas topped the rankings.
