By Eliot Owen Ojambo
Football players around the globe are known to retire from professional football around late and middle 30s and utmost early 40s but Kazuyoshi Miura also known as Kazu is still showing the world that age is just a number. Born on 26th, February,1967,the Japanese forward is still actively living beyond the odds playing for Suzuka point Getters at 55.
Kazuyoshi Miura famously called King Kazu started his professional football career at Santos Brazil way back in 1986. Being active till now means he has featured in world professional football in five different decades.
Playing for decades he has traversed the world of football and has currently played for 14 team’s these include Santos (1986) and 1989 to 1990) , palmeiras in 1986,Matsubara in 1986,XV de Jau 1987-1988,coritba 1988-1989,Verde Kawasaki 1990-1998,Genoa ,Dianamo Zagreb in 1999 , Kyoto purple sanga 1999-2000,vissel Kobe ,2001-2005 yokohama fc in 2005. He is currently on loan at Suzuka point Getters from Yokohama FC.
Over the years King Kazu featured for the Japan national team from 1990-2000 where he made 89 appearances and scored 55 goals . In 2012,he joined the Japanese futsal team where he made 6 appearances and scored one goal.
Miura was the first Japanese recipient of the IFFHS Asia’s footballer of the year award. However many consider him as the father of Japanese football but others say his rise just coincided with the launch of the Japanese league in 1993.
Aside being arguably the first superstar in Japanese football,Miura holds the record for being oldest goslscorer in the J-league and as of 2022,he is world’s oldest professional footballer at the age of 55 he will also distinctly known for playing football in five separate decades.
Governments have come and fallen but Kazuyoshi Miura is still playing football at the age 55.
