（7月4日）
無論今晚意大利還是法國隊獲勝，他們都將改寫歷史。因為，兩隊球員的平均年齡比過去44年間獲得冠軍球隊的年齡都要大.在過去的10屆杯賽中，沒有一支冠軍球隊的球員平均年齡超過28歲。
如果雙方和半決賽時的陣容一樣的話，法國隊的平均年齡是30歲零半個月（年齡最大的球員巴特茲35歲零12天，最年輕的球員裏貝裏，23歲零3個月）。
意大利隊的平局年齡是29歲零7個月（年齡最大的球員馬爾科 馬特拉齊32歲零十個月，最年輕的球員安德烈亞 皮爾洛27歲零1個月）。
上屆杯賽冠軍的平均年齡超過28歲的球隊要追溯到1962年的巴西隊，平均年齡是30歲零1個月。
之後的世界盃冠軍的平均年齡如下，英格蘭(27/01); 巴西 (25/02);德國(27/03); 阿根廷(26/03); 意大利(27/04); 阿根廷 (26/10); 德國(27/09); 巴西(27/11); 法國 (27/04) ，巴西 (26/09).
形成對比的是，法國隊的平均年齡是29歲零2個月，而意大利是28歲零9個月。這使法國成為德國賽場上第二年齡最大的球隊，第一屬於特立尼達和多巴哥隊，他們是29歲零5個月，而意大利隊則排名第五，最年輕的球隊是加納隊，平均年齡25歲零2個月。
鏈結：http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/060709/1/8ozu.html
原文：Golden oldies: today's winners will buck the trend
9 July 2006
by FIFAworldcup.com
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Either Italy or France will today buck the trend and lift the FIFA World Cup? with a team showing an average age considerably older than any other winners over the past 44 years.
In none of the last ten tournaments have the winners possessed a squad with an average age of more than 28. Today’s two line-ups are expected to pass that mark comfortably. If they are unchanged from the teams that won their semi-finals, France will emerge from the Olympiastadion dressing-room showing an average 30 years and 0.5 months (oldest player Fabian Barthez - 35 years and 12 days; youngest: Frank Ribery - 23 years and 3 months) and Italy 29 years and 7 months (oldest: Marco Materazzi - 32 years and 10m months; youngest: Andrea Pirlo - 27 years and 1 month).
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The last winning squad with an average age of more than 28 was way back in 1962 when Brazil triumphed in Chile with a party with an average of 30 years and one month, 17 months older on average than the next oldest squad.
Since then the average age of the winning squads has been: England (27/01); Brazil (25/02); Germany (27/03); Argentina (26/03); Italy (27/04); Argentina (26/10); Germany (27/09); Brazil (27/11); France (27/04) and Brazil (26/09).
As a comparison the average age of the French squad is 29/02 and Italy's 28/09. That makes France the second oldest squad on duty in Germany - Trinidad and Tobago topping that particular ranking at 29/05. Italy were fifth highest in terms of squad average ages; the youngest squad were Ghana at 25/02
作者-岳東興-北京第二外國語學院-英語系
責編：佟杉杉