The future of the US men’s national team is the subject of endless debate. Can Jurgen Klinsmann make the US an elite soccer power? Will we ever win a World Cup? The answers to those questions are uncertain, but one thing we can be certain of is that all players will age — and get slower past a certain age. That’s not a knock on the US’s aging back line; it’s just a fact of life. We are all getting older — often fatter, grayer.

Former Denim Kit-er Alexi Lalas tweeted  recently, “What I could have looked like as a old man,” with a link to a picture. I clicked through expecting a cautionary tale photo of what the road-weary rock n’ roll life can do to the human body. I was disappointed; it was just a Halloween mask.

My disappointment soon gave way to curiosity. What would Lalas look like as an old man? Heck, what would other American soccer heroes look like. Well, thanks to modern technology, we don’t have to wait for nature to take its course. There’s an app for that (see above).

Here’s a look at what some US internationals, past and present, might look like in the distant future, with a little help from an app called Aging Booth.

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