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Schwarzer has no deadline

last updated Monday 21st November 2011, 10:43 PM


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In the 93rd minute of the Premier League contest on Wearside on Saturday, Mark Schwarzer managed to change direction to keep out Stéphane Sessègnon's wickedly deflected shot with an outstretched leg.

In contrast, though, Fulham's Australian goalkeeper had no answer when asked how long he might be defying time, the tide and the opposition on the top-flight stage.



"That's a very good question," the Sydneysider pondered in the aftermath of his match-saving feat. "I can't answer it. There is no deadline.

"I have a goal to get to the World Cup in 2014 but there is no age-limit. I look at Brad Friedel. He is older than me and he has told me he will play for two more seasons, so I have to at least match that."

Schwarzer turned 39 last month. Friedel was 40 in May. Both men have some way to go yet before they match John Burridge, who kept goal for Manchester City in the Premier League as a 43-year-old in 1995.



















Source Simon Turnbull at The Independent
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