When you are fielding 61-year-old defenders don’t be shocked if you give up 12 goals, and that is what happened to Hacele Un Gol a la Vida who lost 12-0 to Paso de la Arena in the Uruguayan 4th division. Hacele Un Gol a la Vida’s name translates to Score a Goal for Life in English and the club has not done that at all having scored only 1 goal in 8 games and giving up 33 in that time.
Besides the scoreline the other major item of note for Hacele Un Gol a la Vida is that the club has on their roster Robert Carmona, the oldest professional soccer player in the world.
Carmona has been playing for Hacele Un Gol a la Vida since 2021, the defender has two Guinness Book of Records and in 2022 met with Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou to discuss his long career and stated he was more nervous meeting the president than anything in his career.
The career of Robert Carmona
The official stats on the career of Robert Carmona are the following, the defender debuted as a professional in 1976, and he has actively played in 47 professional soccer seasons. Carmona is stated to have played in around 2000 professional games in his long career.
Carmona holds the record for the player with the biggest gap between spells at a club, featuring for La Luz F.C. in 1984–85, before returning in 2009 (24 years later).
Among the teams he played for professionally Carmona had spells with Liverpool, Bella Vista, Colon Montevideo, Progreso, Bella Vista in his native Uruguay, he also played in the lower leagues of Canada, United States, Spain, and Italy.
In the United States from 1995-1996 Carmona played for Philadelphia KiXX, recently he played for Albion from 2010-2021 before moving to Hacele Un Gol a la Vida. Carmona was also a player coach from 2005-2011 for Albion.
