They say time waits for no man and while it doesn’t ever fully stop, it for some people it seems to move slower than others. Rafa Márquez is one such man for whom time seems more abstract than concrete.
A step slower and perhaps with a gray hair or two, 39 year old Márquez was subbed on in the 74th minute of Mexico’s 1-0 win in the World Cup against defending champions Germany. He is the only man to appear in five World Cups. Six women have appeared in five World Cups (Kristine Lilly and Christie Rampone for the United States, Birgit Prinz and Nadine Angerer for Germany, Bente Nordbe for Norway and Karina LeBlanc for Canada) while two women have made six (Brazil’s Formiga and Japan’s Homare Sawa).