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Name
Kazuyoshi Miura
(三浦知良)

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Born
1967 (57 years old)

Birth Place

Shizuoka, Japan

Position
Centre-Forward

Status
Active

Ethnicity
Asian

Team Number
11

Height
1.77 m (5 ft 8 in)

Weight
72 kg (159 lb)

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Soccer

Team
Oliveirense

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League
Portuguese LigaPro

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Kazuyoshi Miura (三浦知良, Miura Kazuyoshi, born 26 February 1967), often known simply as Kazu (nicknamed "King Kazu"), is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Liga Portugal 2 club Oliveirense, on loan from J1 League club Yokohama FC. He is the world's oldest active player to score in a professional match.

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, whose rise to fame in Japan coincided 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 notable goals or produces such plays.

Miura holds the records for being the oldest active goalscorer in the J-League, the footballer with the world's longest professional career, and, as of 2024, is the oldest professional footballer in the world at 57. He also holds the unique distinction of having played professional football in five separate decades (1980s–2020s). His elder brother Yasutoshi is a former professional footballer.

Career Honours

Croatian Prva Liga 1998-1999 Dinamo Zagreb	Japanese Emperors Cup 1996 Tokyo Verdy	Japanese Super Cup 1995 Tokyo Verdy	Japanese J-League 1 1994 Tokyo Verdy
Japanese Super Cup 1994 Tokyo Verdy	Japanese J-League 1 1993 Tokyo Verdy	AFC Asian Cup 1992 Japan	Campeonato Paranaense 1989 Coritiba