dwin van der Sar will have the details of Barcelona’s penalty takers at the touch of his fingertips on an iPad ahead of the Champions League final and every inch he covers at Wembley on the last appearance of his illustrious career on Saturday night will be mapped out by computer technology.
Yet when Manchester United’s 40-year-old goalkeeper first laid hands on the European Cup with Ajax in 1995, he did not even possess a mobile phone.
Little wonder that the Dutchman believes he will be drawing the line under something which feels almost prehistoric when he packs the gloves away for the final time after Saturday night’s game.
“It does feel like a lifetime, to be fair.” Van der Sar said. “I’m working on my autobiography back in Holland at the moment and you talk about some things and see some pictures and you think ‘Wow, that was a lifetime ago.’
“Back then we were without mobile phone, internet, those kind of things. It has been a long road, but very much enjoyable.”
Reflections on bygone days is the closest Van der Sar gets to nostalgia as he approaches the end of the line. The former Ajax, Juventus and Fulham goalkeeper, capped 130 times by Holland, is not the self-promoting type.
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