Goalkeeper of the Egyptian national team Essam El-Hadari will become the oldest participant in the final tournament of the world championships.

The fact that the 45-year-old goalkeeper of the Egyptian national team, Essam El-Haddari, is in the request of the national team, will make him the champion of the mundials (the previous achievement in 2014 was set by the 43-year-old Colombian goalkeeper Farid Mondragon), but the veteran does not want to simply be listed.

"I never paid attention to the records and did not set myself the goal of establishing them," quotes Esam The Guardian. - I learned about many of them only from press reports. I never thought that I could play till that age, but maybe I was helped by the dream of the World Cup. Now I want to not just go to mundiale, but play on it.

Not for the sake of a record, which probably means more not for me, but for the country, but for the sake of realizing my own dream ".

El-Hadari debuted in the Egyptian national team in 1996, when some of his current teammates were not born yet. During his career, he played 158 matches for the national team, which consisted of four times winning the African Nations Cup.

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