How many players at the 2018 FIFA World Cup 2018 were younger than you?
There's a still a chance you can make it as a footballer, right? No. Many pros are probably young enough to be your child. Use this app as a surefire way to make yourself feel old. Read the accompanying blog post to learn more.
Some testimonials from colleagues: 'very depressing'; 'I knew I was too old to become a great footballer'; 'just what I needed to see'.
You can run the app from an R session with:
shiny::runGitHub("wc18-age", "matt-dray")The app depends on the packages {shiny}, {shinythemes} and {DT}.
Data prepared by AllezCannes, scraped from Wikipedia. See the GitHub repo, data and the app.