Including an Arab player .. 7 stars have played for 4 decades

Nasser Sadiq

Despite the high fitness requirements in modern football, there are some players who have lived in stadiums for the past four decades, and we monitor seven of the most prominent, including one Arab player.

The legendary Italian legend Gianluigi Buffon, 41, who continues to shine in the Juventus squad, is the most prominent of these long-lived stars. And the Italian Cup and Super.

Buffon joined Juventus in 2001, becoming captain of the team after the departure of Alessandro Del Piero in 2012.

Buffon helped crown the Italian World Cup 2006, and was the only goalkeeper to win the title of best player in Europe in 2003, as chosen by the International Federation for History and Statistics as the best goalkeeper in the twentieth century.

Iker Casillas

One of the greatest and most successful goalkeepers in history, he entered the club of the old, thanks to his talent and ingenuity that placed him a summer of Buffon on the list of the best guards in the past decade.

Casillas, 38, guarded the Real Madrid den in 1999, and he remained shining for 16 seasons, during which he participated in 725 games, becoming the second most representative of the monarchy in history after Raul.

Casillas participated in his first official match with the Spanish national team in June 2000, and he was only 19 years old, and he set a record number of 167 international matches.

He became captain of the national team in 2008, and contributed to his crowning of the first European Championship after an absence of 44 years, by winning Euro 2008, and he repeated the same achievement in Euro 2012, and he also crowned the 2010 World Cup.

In April 2018, Casillas reached his 1000th professional game, with 27 championships.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Although he reached 38 years, he is still shining in the stadiums with the Italian team Milan, which he moved to at the end of last month. Paris Saint-Germain, who became his historical scorer with 156 goals, and Manchester United.

Ibrahimovic crowned 35 titles with the clubs he played for, and participated in 62 games with the Swedish national team.

Mohammed Al Shalhoub

The most Saudi players to achieve championships with 33 titles, the latest being crowned with his team Al Hilal, the AFC Champions League 2019 title.

Al-Shalhoub, 39, started his career with Al Hilal in 1998, and joined the Saudi national team two years later and was only 20 years old. He was the first midfield player to win the title of top scorer with 12 goals in the 2009-2010 season.

Kazuyoshi Miura

He is the oldest old-age player, and although he is 52 years old, the Japanese club Yokohama renewed his contract this week to run his 35 season in the stadiums, and strengthens his record as the oldest player to record his presence in football matches at the professional level, and the single player is a march that spanned five decades .

Nicknamed "King Kazuo", Miura began his career with the witch round with the famous Brazilian club Santos in 1982 and he was just 15 years old and represented the Japanese team in the 1998 World Cup in France.

Emery Beylo أوlu

A player in the Turkish team and Fenerbahce club, chosen by the Brazilian legend Pele among the list of the 125 best players alive in 2004, began his football career with Galatasaray in 1996, and moved in 2001 to Inter Italian, and in 2005 to the English club Newcastle, and also played for Atletico Madrid, Spain .

Beyluzoglu, 39, contributed to the historical achievement of the Turkish national team in the 2002 World Cup when the team finished third, and was also among his country's team that qualified for the semi-finals in Euro 2008.

Maxi Rodriguez

A player for the Newell's Old Boys Argentine team, who started his career in 1999, and his start was with European footballers in the 2009-2010 season when he wore the Atletico Madrid shirt, and from him he signed a three and a half year contract with Liverpool for a free transfer.

Rodriguez, 38, was chosen several times in the Argentine national team, the first in 2003, and he participated in the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

Ronaldo will live with the stadiums

Sports Medicine and Sports Injury Consultant Dr. Osama Abdul Rashid explains to Al Jazeera Net the phenomenon of players continuing for four decades or more by saying that most of those who live in the stadiums are goalkeepers or defenders, indicating the need for several factors in order to overcome the player's decline in his performance and physical fitness as a result of progress Age.

Abdul Rashid summarizes these factors in the following points:

- Continuing the exercises according to a comprehensive professional program with the necessity of obtaining the required rest periods to recover the hospitalization of the muscles and not overburden them.

- Ensure the ideal nutrition appropriate to the player's age and effort, and maintain the ideal weight.

- The player away from tension and nervous tension to reduce injuries that shorten his life in stadiums, especially large injuries in the joints, ligaments and spine.

- The necessity of the psychological availability of the player and the incentive to continue exerting effort on the field, and may be stimulated by the surrounding environment, for the players of the big clubs are more willing to stay for a longer period in the stadiums because of the moral and material incentives that urge them to do so.

And Abdul Rashid believes that these characteristics are found in the proportions in the proportions of some players, including the Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo, who may live in stadiums until forty years of age if he maintains his life style and training that he currently follows.