Japanese ahead Kazuyoshi Miura plans to increase his skilled soccer profession into his fortieth season.
Miura, 57 performs for Atletico Suzuka within the Japan Soccer League (JFL) — the fourth tier of Japanese soccer — on mortgage from second-division facet Yokohama FC. When he made his debut for Suzuka in July, he turned the oldest participant to play within the JFL.
Miura joined Suzuka a month earlier and says he plans to maintain enjoying for them within the 2025 season. “I had a one-and-a-half-year contract (because the summer season of 2024). I feel it was a pure development,” he stated, by way of the Kyodo Information press company.
The Japanese soccer calendar runs from March to November and Miura shall be 58 when the brand new season begins subsequent 12 months.
Referred to as ‘King Kazu’, Miura’s skilled profession started in 1986 with Brazilian membership Santos and his prolonged profession has included spells with Palmeiras, Coritiba, Genoa, Dinamo Zagreb, Vissel Kobe and Sydney FC. He beforehand hung out on mortgage with Suzuka in 2022 earlier than becoming a member of Portuguese second-tier facet Oliveirense in a short lived transfer in January 2023.
Miura was one of many first Japanese star footballers, being topped Asian Soccer of the Yr in 1992 and scoring 55 objectives in 89 worldwide appearances between 1990 and 2000, successful the Asian Cup in 1992 and the outdated Afro-Asian Cup of Nations the next 12 months.
Miura has gained 18 trophies throughout his profession together with 4 Japanese league titles with Tokyo Verdy and the top-flight of Croatian soccer with Dinamo Zagreb.
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