When the amateur Torregrota was founded in 1973, the Salvatore Nastasi he was already nine years old.
Today, the gunpowder-smoked goalkeeper defends the home of the 7th division club, continuing undeterred at 59 of years a career that began in the early 80s!
Nastazi has never been able to compete at the highest level due to his professional commitments – namely, to this day, he works as a metal worker in the mornings and trains with Torregrota in the afternoons.
Just marvelling at 59-year-old goalkeeper Salvatore Nastasi who plays in the Italian 7th tier for Sicilian side ASD Torregrotta.
Reflexes like a cat.
— These Football Times (@thesefootytimes) February 8, 2023
With the exception of a few months in 2004, when, at the age of 40, he decided to retire, there has been no further break in his football career.
Then, his former club Milazzo urgently called him up to strengthen their roster and Nastazi decided to return to action, boosted by his big game in the playouts and 1-0 against Pro Falcone.
In his huge career, he has succeeded until he scores with a header after committing a foul. It was 1987, when he was promoted while his team was losing 3-1… 20 minutes from time! “I thought to go up for the phase and I managed to score a goal. But we didn’t put in any more and we lost”he recalled in an earlier interview.
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