The 2002 World Cup was a long time ago. Two decades, in fact. Just over 10 million minutes if we’re being even more precise. Yet, believe it or not, some of the players who went to that tournament are still playing professionally in 2022.
It takes something really special to achieve this feat. Firstly, you’ve got to be good enough for a World Cup squad when in, or barely out of, your teens. Then you’ve got to keep chugging along for a full 20 years as a pro, with all the physical exertion and knocks that entails.
We’ve picked out the eight players who – so far as we can tell – are the only ones from the tournament in Japan and Korea to still be playing for money now.
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