The age of a footballer is among the factors that can also affect their performance and that is why many football clubs or coaches or professionals take age seriously in the game of football and that is why a football player above some certain age might be assumed by football coaches or clubs or professionals that they might not be able to perform well on the football pitch so that is why many footballers who are close to that age will claim to be very much younger so that it won’t decrease their chances of being selected by the football clubs or coaches...though it is morally wrong to reduce your age because of football but people do anything just to get what they want..