53 years and renews his contract with his legend "Kazuo" team, he does it again
When "extraordinary" football listings are drawn up in this era, Kazuyoshi Miura's name will surely remain on top of those lists for many years to come.
The Japanese player, who has won a handful of local titles in his country, will remain immortal in football encyclopedias for a different reason, and an "imaginary" number that is difficult to break soon.
Miura, born in February 1967 and currently 53 years old, is the oldest professional footballer in football fields around the world and recently extended his contract with his Japanese club, "Yokohama FC" for the third time.
The extension of the contract means that Miura will enter his thirty-fifth season, knowing that he played his first season in the world of professionals in 1986 at the age of 19, when he joined the Brazilian club "Santos".
The player, nicknamed "Kazuo", left his country as a teenager, and chose to leave alone, at the age of 15, to Brazil, looking for the realization of his life's dream of becoming a professional player, which has become a reality and has continued for a period of time. Dream of it.
The most prominent milestones in the extraordinary player's career include his first joining the Japan national team in 1990 at the age of 23, and was also the first Japanese professional in the Italian league in 1994, with the Genoa team.
However, Miura's miraculous career appears linked to his current team, "Yokohama FC", whom he contracted in 2005 at the age of 38.
At that time, everyone imagined that the Japanese player would spend a few months with the famous team before bidding farewell to the stadiums, but Kazuo broke all expectations and remained a player in the team until today (for 15 years) during which he won the title of the largest player scoring a goal in the professional championships in the history of football in 2017, And it was then fifty years old.
It is noteworthy that Miura has also participated in futsal tournaments with the Japan national team since 2012.
