nottsblue wrote:freshie wrote:nottsblue wrote:freshie wrote:iwasthere2012 wrote:The only one on that Portugese team I like the look of is that 25 year old young fella, Sanchez.
The only one I really don't like on the French team is Evra. Be nice to see Sanchez make an idiot of Evra if Portugal are to score.
As an aside, Sissoko really looks up for it tonight.
Sanches is 18
Think it was ironic. Plenty of rumours floating around he us older than the official 18.
Why do these rumours only float around about black players?
I did read somewhere that in Africa especially, it is not uncommon for babies to be registered for a birth certificate a year or two after the actual birth and the date of birth is marked down as the date of the registration, thus making the child a year or two younger. Whether there is any truth to that I honestly don't know but it sounded feasible and not beyond the realms of possibility.
Just for the record, I believe the kid is 18 or 19, but his parents split up, his father moved to France to work bringing Renato with him and returned in 2002. The birth was registered then 5 years after his birth date of 1997. So the story goes anyway.
