Age wise they could be… father and son.
In football, there were both record holder (based on relevant statistics) in the completed league.
These performances of Mathieu Valbuena and Stefanou Tsima recorded by Stoiximan Super Leaguewith the relevant text in the review box stating:
“Experience and new blood co-exist all the years in the A’ National Championship/Super League and it was natural that this season too some would write the last pages of their history and others would make their own promising beginning.
If this moment had two pictures, they would be of Mathieu Valbuena and Stefano Jima. The two footballers dominated this statistical category at all levels, after taking first place in both of its strong versions.
Mathieu Valbuena holds the title of the oldest footballer to have played in the league with his last appearance for Olympiacos on April 30, 2023, against Volos, when he was 38 years, seven months and one day old.
With this participation he made even more difficult the milestone of the second oldest footballer in the history of the Reds in the history of the division and is behind Antonis Nikopolidis, who played with Olympiakos in the championship at the age of 40 years, 3 months and 2 days.
At the same time, the Frenchman also took the first place among the oldest football scorers, since when he scored in the match between Olympiacos and Panaitolikos on February 13, 2023, he was 38 years, 4 months and 17 days old.
He was already at the top of the Reds’ footballers from last year’s championship, but now he has raised his age further and behind him is Ariel Ibagasa, who, when he last scored for Olympiacos in a league match, was 37 years, 2 months and 31 days.
JIMA’S RECORDS
Stefanos Tzimas, for his part, was the youngest to enter the Stoiximan Super League for this season, since at the age of 17 years, 1 month and 18 days he made his debut with PAOK in a Championship match in Ioannina against PAS on February 25, 2023.
This put him in 7th place in PAOK’s history, but he secured the all-time lead with the goal he scored a few days later.
On March 5, 2023, he scored his first goal with the colors of PAOK in the championship and was at the age of 17 years, 1 month and 26 days, which led him to the top and broke the record of Giorgos Koudas that had been held for 59 years. The midfielder of Dikefalo had scored on April 1, 1964, in the match between PAOK and Niki Volos 1-0, when he was 17 years, 4 months and 9 days old.
Source: Sport Fm
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