A Couple Of Chulas

Do you know that the players' age average in the past Jai-Alai World Championship was 32 years old?

31 age average for Jai-Alive players; 33,4 for the Master Jai players.



Jai-Alive Master Jai

Arriaga 36 years old; Felix 47 years old

Garcia 35 " ; Baronio 38 "

Egiguren 32 " ; Alberdi II 35 "

Foronda 30 " ; Irastorza 33 "

Hernandez 28 " ;Alberdi III 32 "

Lopez 25 " ; Enbil 32 "

Alliez 31 "

Lander 30 "

Olha 29 "

Goikoetxea 27 "



A few thoughts come to my mind...

I. Top jai-alai players are within the best age for the practice of jai-alai.

2. If there is not a future substitution in the near future, players will be "too old" for the health of the sport.

3. The two best players, Goiko and Lopez, are the youngest of all.

4. Considering that only Dania and Miami frontons remain open, and that the quantity of professional players has drastically decreased in the last years, which top players will substitute in ten years from now the actual ones? Don`t you think that the future of jai-alai may be at risk because of the lack of top quality players?

Which players from Dania and Miami would you include for the next years World Championship, considering that some of the players that took part in the last tournament should not been participating?

Would it be appropiate for the health of the sport to organize a future World Championship at Dania or Miami? If so, in what format, quinielas or partidos?