Age in top eleven

[pcmacdaniel]

I have been wondering about if age is a factor when setting your first eleven?

does 11players with the age of 18 preforme weaker than a mix age team? Are experience a factor in top eleven?

are there any proof?

All I can answer with is my own experience on the question. Don't take it as definitive proof, just a tested example of one top eleven manager.

I think the answer is yes, older players play better than younger players. I'll use my all-time leading scorer (Fernando Vercosa) as an example. He's currently 28 yrs old (133%) and has 630 career goals. His goal production really didn't shoot off the charts until he was 23 years old, when he had 93 goal season. He's had a pair of 96 goal seasons since then. Before that, with similar stats he was scoring roughly 50 goals/season. . This season he has 47 currently.

So the correlation in my case is between the ages of 23-27, he had 3 seasons over 90 goals. Before age 22, his most was like 53 goals.