Welcome to over-60 soccer, where love of the game is far more important than the final score, which isn’t kept accurately anyway.
Marcos Gaitan, 90, center, keeps his eye on the ball during a soccer match at North Ranch Playfield.
More than 50 men are registered in the league, with as many as 40 showing up most Sundays mornings, enough for three full teams and two games. “You get older and you’ve got to exercise the heart a little bit. And running is just a lonely sport,” said Ron Orum, 78, a former gas company worker who, along with Patrick Futvoye, a 76-year-old Army veteran, helped organize the games. The men used to play in an over-50 league but broke away when that league began admitting players in their mid-40s.
A head shorter than most of the players, Gaitan usually plays forward, where the only concession to his age is an agreement that he can collect the ball and make a move without being touched. He’s also allowed to be offside “within reason.”
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