The A-League is starting to resemble a Retirement Home

Attention all footballers 40 years and older not named Teddy Sheringham. Just because your talents have waned and Father Time is not on your side doesn’t mean that you have to hang up your boots quite yet. There is still a place for you to play and for you to be paid handsomely to do so. It is a far away place where the women grow and the men plunder. This place is Australia’s A-League.

After welcoming fellow 40-something Romario earlier this year, the A-League teams are trying to persuade the Italian striker Gianfranco Zola to sign up for a guest stint Down Under. Zola, who retired last year after finishing his career at Cagliari, is being courted by Perth Glory, Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC, proving that the coffee cups at road stop gas stations are right: life really does begin at 40.

Before signing on the dotted line and agreeing to play in Australia, Zola might want to read FIFA head honcho Sepp Blatter’s sort of apology for the referees jobbing the Socceroos this summer during their knockout round match against Italy at the World Cup.

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