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Top 10 Unbelievable Facts about Kazuyoshi Miura

Kazuyoshi Miura is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Japan Football League club Suzuka Point Getters on loan from Yokohama FC.

He played for the Japan national team from 1990 to 2000 and was the first Japanese recipient of the IFFHS Asia’s Footballer of the Year award. Miura,  who rose to fame in Japan coinciding with the launch of the J.League in 1993, was arguably Japan’s first superstar in football. He is also known for his trademark “Kazu Feint” and his famous “Kazu dance” when he scores great goals or produces great plays.

Miura holds the records for being the oldest goal scorer in the J-League, the footballer with the world’s longest professional career, and, as of 2022, is the oldest professional footballer in the world at 55. He also holds the possibly unique distinction of having played professional football in five separate decades (the 1980s¨C2020s).

1. He holds the record of being the oldest goal scorer in the J-League

The former Japan striker last scored against Thespakusatsu Gunma in 2017 in Japan¡¯s second division, becoming the oldest player to score in a Japanese professional league game at 50 years and 14 days. He, therefore, has become the oldest professional footballer to score a competitive goal, beating Sir Stanley Matthews¡¯ 52-year-long record.

2. He is the footballer with the world¡¯s longest professional career

Miura started his career with Santos in Brazil in 1986. He is one of the most revered sportsmen in Japan and was at the forefront of the country¡¯s football boom in the early 1990s when he was the poster boy of the newly launched league in 1993. While most footballers at the age of 52 are well into their second decade of retirement, Kazuyoshi Miura has no intention of hanging up his boots just yet.

3. His older brother is also a  former professional footballer

Yasutoshi Miura is a Japanese former football player and manager. He is currently the manager of the club Suzuka Point Getters. He played for the Japan national team. His brother Kazuyoshi Miura is also a footballer.

4. He was the first Japanese recipient of the IFFHS Asia’s Footballer of the Year award.

The Asian Footballer of the Year is an annual prize awarded to the best Asian player in a calendar year, organized by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). He played for the Japan national team from 1990 to 2000 and was the first Japanese recipient of the IFFHS Asia’s Footballer of the Year award.

5. He is also known for his trademark “Kazu Feint” and his famous “Kazu dance” when he scores great goals or produces great plays.

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In association football, rugby league, rugby union, and Australian rules football, a  feint is a player deceiving the opposition into believing he is going to pass, shoot, move in a certain direction, or receive the ball and instead do something entirely different, thus gaining an advantage.  Therefore Miura is well known for his Kazu Feint trademark and his famous Kazu dance once he scores great goals.

6. He is 5ft tall

If you were wondering about Kazuyoshi Miura¡¯s height, then you should know that he is 1.77m (5 ft 9 1?2 in) tall which is quite an average height that can give him both a fine pace and enough physical strength to hold his stature in the air to head the crosses into the net.

7. He has played for the Futsal team

The oldest active player in football tried his skills at futsal for a brief period as he played 6 times for the Japan national Futsal team and scored 1 goal for his country. Of course, he used to be much better for his country¡¯s national football team as he had 89 international caps, scoring 55 goals in the process to boost his country in various competitions.

8. He has a quite decorated trophy cabinet

You can¡¯t be the oldest active player in football and not have any trophies or individual awards to your name. The very least would be a Guinness World Record or something similar for simply being the oldest active footballer in the world.

Miura has got himself quite a decorated trophy cabinet as he has won many trophies and individual awards throughout his career, most of which have come during his time at Verdy Kawasaki. Miura has won 2 Japanese Amateur Championships, 2 Japanese Super Cups, 3 Japanese League Cups, 1 Japanese Cup, and 2 Japanese League titles with Verdy Kawasaki during his 10-year spell at the club, a golden era in football. He was also awarded the 1992 Player of the Year award at Verdy Kawasaki and the 1992 and 1993 Footballer of the Year awards in Japan.

9. He is nicknamed ¡°Kazu¡± or ¡°king Kazu¡¯¡¯

As a legendary football player of a country with millions of football lovers, one would definitely ¡®earn¡¯ a nickname for themselves as they play through their career. The oldest active player in football could certainly be a nice title, but it¡¯s not a nickname. Miura is known to football fans as simply ¡®Kazu¡¯ or ¡®King Kazu¡¯ as he has earned quite a reputation in Japan, both for his age and his performances throughout the years. After all, he has played over 660 games in total, scoring 187 goals for his clubs which are surely fondly remembered by the fans.

10. He has been ranked as the number one with the highest transfer market value among players

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Kazuyoshi Miura’s transfer market value might not be as hefty as those players active in western leagues, he might not even have a high transfer market value in his country or even his team. But the important thing is that Kazuyoshi Miura’s transfer market value stands at €100,000, which is still a lot of money to pay for a 53-year-old player. What is quite amusing, is that he has been ranked as the number one with the highest transfer market value among all players born in 1967. The thing is that he is the only active player in modern football who was born in 1967.