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Peruvian offensive players, like wine, get better with age
The highest scoring player in the history of Peruvian football, Argentinian Sergio Ibarra, is forty years old, while another high scorer, Germán Carty, will turn 45 and continues to score despite being the oldest player in a country that is experiencing an authentic phenomenon of ´old´ football players.
Carty, a grizzled forward for Pacifico de Lima, plays and fights for the ball in each game as though he still had the physique of a 19-year old juvenile player.
"I don´t play because I need the money, I do it because I like football, every day that I get up I´m ready to keep training to enjoy every game", Carty said in an interview with the AFP.
The experienced player that was champion of the Copa Sudamericana in 2003 and best individual goal scorer with Cienciano of Cuzco, with six goals, divulged his personal secret to his ability to keep playing: good genetics, a methodical life (without too much distraction due to excessive entertainment), and good nutrition based on proper consumption of proteins, fruits, and carbohydrates.
"I will keep playing until I don´t have enough energy to be on the playing field, at that moment I will know that it´s time to hang up my cleats", Carty commented, who has scored one goal in 25 games in the current first division tournament.
On his Pacifico squad, Carty (45) is not the only experienced player as he shares the field with the oldest attacking line in Peru, with three offensive players with whose ages sum to 152 combined years of age: Argentinian Mauro Cantoro (36 years old), Gustavo Vassallo (35) and Andrés Mendoza (36).
Born on July 16th, 1968 in the city of San Vicente de Cäñete, in Lima, in the south of Peru, Carty began his football playing career at 19 years of age with Coronel Bolognesi, a team from the city of Tacna, on the border with Chile.
He has played for more than twen of the various Peruvian first division clubs, and then played overseas for Atlante and Irapuato in Mexico (1997-1998), Blooming of Bolivia (2001), and Chalatenango of El Salvador (2006). The player, who is nicknamed ´the Ostrich´, ´the Indestructible´, and ´the Unpredictable´, by fans, has been married since he was 24 years old and has two sons, one who is 19 years old and who plays on the reserve team for Alianza Lima.
Every time he scores he performs his famous ostrich dance.
"The dance developed step-by-step and owes its existence to the joy I have from scoring", the player, who played with the Peruvian selection in the South American elimination for World Cup France-1998, commented.
"Carty is an example for the young players who are playing football, I´m sure that if he continues like this, he could play until he´s 50", his coach at Pacifico, Cásar ´Chalaca´ Gonzáles, told the AFP. Gonzáles first coached him more than twenty years ago at Sport Boys.
At foty years of age, and famous for his ´old man´ dance that he demonstrates to the fans in the stands after every goal, Argentinian Sergio Ibarra, of Sport Huancayo, is another legend of Peruvian football, with 266 goals scored in more than 600 games played, starting when he arrived in Peru in 1992.
To further demonstrate his legendary status, Ibarra scored two goals this weekend in his team´s 2-1 victory against Juan Aurich. The game was played Saturday in the city of Huancayo at 3,270 meters above sea level.
"I´m very content to have scored twice. The team is once again at the top of the standings without making a lot of fanfare", Ibarra said.
The ´prehistoric´ goal scorer has become a fan favorite for his celebration - after scoring he demonstrates his ´old man´ dance, where he pretends to be an old man who is dancing alone, supported on an imaginary cane.
Heralding from Río Cuarto, part of Córdoba, Argentina, Ibarra has played his entire professional career in Peru, having played for twelve first division clubs.
In 2011 he both played and coached for Cienciano, in Cuzco, in the southeast of Peru.
"This ´old man´ will be around for a little longer", Ibarra indicated in April after recuperating from health problems he suffered after a game in the local tournament.
Another Peruvian forward, Ramón Rodríguez, who is 36 years old, of Cienciano of Cuzco, is another veteran player who represents the phenomenon of ´old´ football players in Peru.
´El Ratón´ Rodríguez, çhampion of the Copa Sudamericana in 2003 with Cienciano, is another of the leading goal scorers of the first division 2013 tournament, having scored nine goals.
Peruvian offensive players, like wine, get better with age
The highest scoring player in the history of Peruvian football, Argentinian Sergio Ibarra, is forty years old, while another high scorer, Germán Carty, will turn 45 and continues to score despite being the oldest player in a country that is experiencing an authentic phenomenon of ´old´ football players.
Carty, a grizzled forward for Pacifico de Lima, plays and fights for the ball in each game as though he still had the physique of a 19-year old juvenile player.
"I don´t play because I need the money, I do it because I like football, every day that I get up I´m ready to keep training to enjoy every game", Carty said in an interview with the AFP.
The experienced player that was champion of the Copa Sudamericana in 2003 and best individual goal scorer with Cienciano of Cuzco, with six goals, divulged his personal secret to his ability to keep playing: good genetics, a methodical life (without too much distraction due to excessive entertainment), and good nutrition based on proper consumption of proteins, fruits, and carbohydrates.
"I will keep playing until I don´t have enough energy to be on the playing field, at that moment I will know that it´s time to hang up my cleats", Carty commented, who has scored one goal in 25 games in the current first division tournament.
On his Pacifico squad, Carty (45) is not the only experienced player as he shares the field with the oldest attacking line in Peru, with three offensive players with whose ages sum to 152 combined years of age: Argentinian Mauro Cantoro (36 years old), Gustavo Vassallo (35) and Andrés Mendoza (36).
Born on July 16th, 1968 in the city of San Vicente de Cäñete, in Lima, in the south of Peru, Carty began his football playing career at 19 years of age with Coronel Bolognesi, a team from the city of Tacna, on the border with Chile.
He has played for more than twen of the various Peruvian first division clubs, and then played overseas for Atlante and Irapuato in Mexico (1997-1998), Blooming of Bolivia (2001), and Chalatenango of El Salvador (2006). The player, who is nicknamed ´the Ostrich´, ´the Indestructible´, and ´the Unpredictable´, by fans, has been married since he was 24 years old and has two sons, one who is 19 years old and who plays on the reserve team for Alianza Lima.
Every time he scores he performs his famous ostrich dance.
"The dance developed step-by-step and owes its existence to the joy I have from scoring", the player, who played with the Peruvian selection in the South American elimination for World Cup France-1998, commented.
"Carty is an example for the young players who are playing football, I´m sure that if he continues like this, he could play until he´s 50", his coach at Pacifico, Cásar ´Chalaca´ Gonzáles, told the AFP. Gonzáles first coached him more than twenty years ago at Sport Boys.
At foty years of age, and famous for his ´old man´ dance that he demonstrates to the fans in the stands after every goal, Argentinian Sergio Ibarra, of Sport Huancayo, is another legend of Peruvian football, with 266 goals scored in more than 600 games played, starting when he arrived in Peru in 1992.
To further demonstrate his legendary status, Ibarra scored two goals this weekend in his team´s 2-1 victory against Juan Aurich. The game was played Saturday in the city of Huancayo at 3,270 meters above sea level.
"I´m very content to have scored twice. The team is once again at the top of the standings without making a lot of fanfare", Ibarra said.
The ´prehistoric´ goal scorer has become a fan favorite for his celebration - after scoring he demonstrates his ´old man´ dance, where he pretends to be an old man who is dancing alone, supported on an imaginary cane.
Heralding from Río Cuarto, part of Córdoba, Argentina, Ibarra has played his entire professional career in Peru, having played for twelve first division clubs.
In 2011 he both played and coached for Cienciano, in Cuzco, in the southeast of Peru.
"This ´old man´ will be around for a little longer", Ibarra indicated in April after recuperating from health problems he suffered after a game in the local tournament.
Another Peruvian forward, Ramón Rodríguez, who is 36 years old, of Cienciano of Cuzco, is another veteran player who represents the phenomenon of ´old´ football players in Peru.
´El Ratón´ Rodríguez, çhampion of the Copa Sudamericana in 2003 with Cienciano, is another of the leading goal scorers of the first division 2013 tournament, having scored nine goals.
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