Opening 2023

André-Pierre Gignac became the best player in Liga MX since his arrival in the summer of 2005 and a reference for Tigres. The way he takes care of himself has led him to continue being a protagonist in Mexican soccer at 38 years old, but also to become an important statistic.

In world football there are important forwards who have also known how to lead their careers and in 2023 they were important in their clubs, such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, Lionel Messi, Luka Modrid and Olivier Giroud, among others.

The CIES Football Observatory published data on the players who played the most minutes in 2023 and in the top 10 of players who are 36 years old or older appears Bomboro along with the footballers mentioned above, which are not just any names.

The list is headed by Cristiano Ronaldo, who added 4,267 minutes in the last 365 days with Al Nassr, and the list is continued by Jan Vertonghen (4,228), Juraj Kucka (4,164), Benzema (3,957) and Lionel Messi (3,930). , to complete the first five positions.

Then there are Guram Kashia (3,850), Eran Zahavi (3,804), Luka Modric (3,801), Olivier Giroud (3,751) and finally André-Pierre Gignac (3,737), who completes the Top 10 of footballers aged 36 or over with more minutes this 2023.

Of this list, only considering the players who are scorers, the French forward’s numbers are not bad either, since he was fighting for the scoring leadership in the Apertura 2023 with nine goals and in the Clausura 2023 he was the sixth best with seven.

Counting all the scores he made in 2023, Dédé added 26, counting all the competitions where he played official games, surpassing the 21 that Olivier Giroud had with AC Milan, the only one that remains in European football.

Cristiano Ronaldo had 44 goals for Al Nassr, followed by Karim Benzema, with 35, for Al Ittihad and Real Madrid. Then there is Eran Zahavi of Maccabi Tel Aviv, with 32, and Lionel Messi, with 28, both at Paris Saint Germain and Inter Miami.

Few injuries and does not drink alcohol

Although the French forward is 38 years old, he is physically in good condition due to the work he has with the Auriazul club’s medical team and that he has been paying for his own personal trainer for several years with whom he trains in the afternoons.

Another issue is that Gignac does not drink alcohol or is one of the players who constantly goes out to party, at least in Mexico he has stood out for being a more family-oriented person, although he has admitted that he does like to eat.

“I’m lucky that I don’t drink alcohol, but I know many French players who are friends of mine and they are ‘alcoholic’, so to speak, they like to drink after a game. The Mexican press is very harsh in that sense with Mexican players. A percentage influences, but the most important is the mind,” he said in an interview with Roberto Gómez Junco.

In 2023 he suffered little from injuries, as he had a muscle injury in February, which left him out of activity for 18 days and he missed three games with the Monterrey team.

Another injury was a discomfort in the pubis that afflicted him since the beginning of November, and made him absent in two of the six games they played in the Liguilla, the First Leg of the Quarterfinals against Puebla and the First Leg of the Semifinal against Pumas, since It helped him that there was a FIFA date.

In total, since arriving at Tigres in the summer of 2015, Dédé has missed a total of 26 games due to injury over eight years, which is 353 games, taking into account all the competitions he has played with the club.

2023-12-18 03:39:36
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