Mea culpa. Like most of our colleagues, we wrote on Tuesday that Zlatan Ibrahimovic would become the oldest player to play a Euro qualifier, if he enters the pitch this Friday against Belgium. But we had forgotten Lee Casciaro...
Because if "Ibra" has walked the lawn of the Friends Arena of Solna, replacing Alexander Isak in the 73rd minute during the beating inflicted on Sweden by the Red Devils (0-3, hat-trick of Romelu Lukaku), the striker of Gibraltar, holder against Greece (0-3), is even older.
Dino Zoff is defeated
Not much, only four days: Casciaro was born on September 29, 1981, while the AC Milan star was born on October 3, 1981. But it was enough for the player of Lincoln Red Imps FC, the best club in Gibraltar, to catch the pompom: at 41 years five months and 25 days, he is now ahead of former Italian goalkeeper Dino Zoff, who played against Sweden on May 29, 1983, at 41 years, three months and one day.
Ibrahimovic will break the record for the oldest player to play in a European Championship final, if he plays Euro 2024, as he has expressed the desire. He will then be 42 years old.
If we do not go too far by saying that Casciaro and Gibraltar, placed in Group B (that of the France), will not see Germany, the qualification of Sweden is far from assured, after this first day catastrophic.
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