Quote from: maju69 on Today at 04:17:31 PM

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Quote from: Pandu Geddon on Today at 12:43:47 PM

they are getting old. Naturally, if they retire from the national team. and it's about time there will be a new, younger star for their country.
however, we know these two players are the best in the world. extraordinary talent that may be difficult to exist again in the future. both are magic people. I hope that even though they have retired from the national team, they can be in the coaching team to continue to pump up the spirit of young people in their country.

This is really sad but that's how life circle works. It's not the first time top footballers are retiring from national side, it happens in every worldcup. 1994 fifa worldcup was last worldcup of Diego Maradona and he left the world in 2020. This world cup will bring joyfull moments that our coming generations will see.

Yes indeed this will be the last World Cup for players who are arguably the star players in the current era. But indeed the age factor cannot be separated from the sport which is the most popular sport in the world. But I believe that a new era will soon begin, we know that this World Cup will always produce players who can replace the seniors.

I think the 2022 world cup will be the last world cup for some football stars, not only messi and ronaldo but pepe, modric, di maria and maybe even lewandowski and muller also have the potential to retire, some of these players are now entering the end of their careers in the national team and of course the regeneration of players will make countries competing in the world cup better than continuing to rely on old players, indeed their performance in playing is still very good but sometimes age is an important factor to be considered by national coaches.