Who Says You Can't Win Anything With Kids
This is going to be the strangest, most ridiculous football rule you will see in your lives, so prepare yourself.
Second division club Portimonense won their Carlsberg Cup (Portugal’s league cup) first group phase by simply substituting in a 19-year-old goalkeeper to give them the youngest average age.
Yep. That’s how they won. Simple as that.
With all three teams in Group A finishing level on points and no goals scored, the competition regulations dictated that the winners would be decided by the youngest average age of the players used.
Alive to this fact, in the 91st minute Portimonense coach Litos replaced veteran goalkeeper Pedro Silva who was an elderly 35 years old with his 19-year-old back-up, Sapateiro (pictured above), which ended up making all the difference.
The substitution reduced the average age of the players used in the Carlsberg Cup by Portimonense to 24.5 years, compared to Academica’s 24.6 and Beira-Mar’s 25.4.
That’s it — all the kid had to do was not be an old man and suddenly he’s a league cup hero. Easy as that.
Now, the Carlsberg Cup has only been around since 2007. It underwent a format change in 2008 and obviously needs a few more tweaks before they have this thing down. So don’t even begin to think about why youngest average age was the tiebreaker instead of something more familiar like replays or extra time or even the flip of a coin because it's not worth the effort.
Alive to this fact, in the 91st minute Portimonense coach Litos replaced veteran goalkeeper Pedro Silva who was an elderly 35 years old with his 19-year-old back-up, Sapateiro (pictured above), which ended up making all the difference.
The substitution reduced the average age of the players used in the Carlsberg Cup by Portimonense to 24.5 years, compared to Academica’s 24.6 and Beira-Mar’s 25.4.
That’s it — all the kid had to do was not be an old man and suddenly he’s a league cup hero. Easy as that.
Now, the Carlsberg Cup has only been around since 2007. It underwent a format change in 2008 and obviously needs a few more tweaks before they have this thing down. So don’t even begin to think about why youngest average age was the tiebreaker instead of something more familiar like replays or extra time or even the flip of a coin because it's not worth the effort.
Trust me. I'm finding out right now.
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