Quote (Crestron @ Jul 27 2016 03:05pm)
Umm, no. Almost all of the all time greats peaked before that age. Imo the peak age (if there has to be one specific number) is 26.
Messi's best year by a landslide: 2012 (age 25)
Ronaldo's best year: either '96/'97 (age 20-21 lol) but also 2002 (age 26)
Maradona's best year: '86 (age 26)
Possibly Zidane's best year: '98 (age 26) but you could argue 2000/2003 were better...
Roanldinho's best year: 2005 (age 25) or 2004 (age 24!)
Gerd Mueller scored the most goals the year he was 27 (1972)
Pele's best year 1965, age 25
Kaka, the last person to win the ballon d'or pre-CR7/Messi was 25 when he won it..
Could probably go on but those are the ones I could think of :p
but of course, you also have those players who peak at a late age, like Drogba, Zlatan, Payet etc... but way more cases of people peaking early (25 or younger)
You picked the most "special" players, but the prime age is 27-29, so you could say 28.
At 22-25 you are still learning, once you get to 27/28 you still have same physical attribute with more knowledge
This post was edited by chelsea11 on Jul 27 2016 01:34pm