Kazuyoshi Miura

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Kazuyoshi Miura
Kazu Miura at Matsuda tribute match 20120122.jpg
Miura 2012
Personnel
birthday February 26, 1967
place of birth Shizuoka ,  Japan
size 177 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1973-1979 Jonai FC
1979-1982 Jonai Jr. HS
1982 Shizuoka Gakuen HS
1982-1986 CA Juventus
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1986 FC Santos 2 00(0)
1986 Palmeiras São Paulo 25 00(2)
1986 HE Matsubara 5 00(1)
1987 Clube de Regatas Brasil 4 00(0)
1987-1988 XV Novembro-Jaú 25 00(2)
1989 Coritiba FC 21 00(2)
1990 FC Santos 11 00(3)
1990-1998 Yomiuri / Verdy Kawasaki 192 (100)
1994-1995 →  CFC Genoa  (loan) 21 00(1)
1999 Croatia Zagreb 12 00(0)
1999-2000 Kyoto Purple Sanga 41 0(21)
2001-2005 Vissel Kobe 103 0(24)
2005– Yokohama FC 268 0(24)
2005 →  Sydney FC  (loan) 4 00(2)
2012 →  Espolada Hokkaido  (loan) 1 00(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1990-2000 Japan 89 0(55)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019

Kazuyoshi Miura ( Japanese 三浦 知 良 Miura Kazuyoshi , short form: Kazu Miura , nickname: King Kazu ; born February 26, 1967 in Shizuoka ) is a Japanese football player . He is considered one of the best Japanese footballers of all time. Since the beginning of March 2017 he has been the oldest ever active professional player and goalscorer in football history.

youth

Miura was born on February 26, 1967 as the son of Naya Nobo and Yoshiko Miura and was already on the field for a team from his elementary school for the first time at the age of six . In 1982 he graduated from middle school and switched to Shizuoka High School , which he dropped out after eight months. He then made a decision that would make him famous: at the age of 15, he traveled alone to Brazil to become a professional footballer .

Career

Miura's first club, CA Juventus , was a youth team from São Paulo . In 1986, at the age of 19, he signed his first professional contract with FC Santos , the club of his idol Pelé . Until 1990 he played successfully for several Brazilian clubs, including Palmeiras São Paulo and Coritiba FC , and became the idol of the many Japanese-born Brazilians and football fans in Japan.

In 1990 he returned to Japan and joined the then leading Yomiuri FC (today: Tokyo Verdy 1969 ), which he directly led to three championship titles in a row (two in the Japan Soccer League and one as Verdy Kawasaki in the newly founded Professional league J. League ). In the summer of 1994, Miura was named Asian Player of the Year and Most Valuable Player of the J. League , and Verdy was about to win his fourth straight title. At this point, Kazu (he was the only Japanese at the time who - in the Brazilian tradition - had his nickname on his jersey) moved to CFC Genoa in the Italian Serie A as the first Japanese in the league. Although he was unable to assert himself there and returned to Verdy after a year, this guest appearance in Japan was also seen as a success, which was only later surpassed by Hidetoshi Nakata .

After another European guest appearance at Dinamo Zagreb in 1999 , Miura moved to Kyoto Purple Sanga and then to Vissel Kobe . After a stay in the second division at Yokohama FC in 2005, he was awarded for a few months to the Australian Sydney FC .

In 2006 Miura returned to Yokohama FC. At the end of 2014, as the longest serving active professional footballer in Japan, he extended his contract with Yokohama FC by one year. He scored the 1-0 for Yokohama in the 3-2 loss to Júbilo Iwata on April 5, 2015 at the age of 48 . This makes him the oldest player to date to have scored a goal in Japanese professional football. In November of the same year, Miura extended his contract until December 31, 2016.

On January 11, 2017, his contract was renewed, this time until the end of 2017. On March 5 of that year, a week after his 50th birthday, Miura played in the game against V-Varen Nagasaki and played 54 minutes. Through the effort, he overtook Stanley Matthews , who played his last game at the age of 50 years and 5 days, as the oldest professional footballer in history.

Exactly a year later, Miura renewed his contract for the coming season. Following the 2019 season , after the runner-up and the return to the J1 League after thirteen years, a further contract extension in Yokohama took place in January 2020.

Success with the national team

On September 26, 1990, Kazuyoshi Miura played in Beijing against Bangladesh, his first of a total of 91 international matches. He scored his first goal for Japan two years later, also in Beijing, in a 4-1 win over North Korea . He is the national team's record goal scorer with 56 goals and also played the second most international matches, but he was denied the appearance he longed for at a World Cup : although Miura stands for Japan's rise to the world's football elite and his team took part in the 1998 World Cup (about six goals in the qualifier against Macau ), it was not even pitched in France. In general, Miura's time in the national team, which ended on June 6, 2000 with a 4-0 victory over Jamaica and his 55th goal, was overshadowed by friction: Miura, who is considered an “eccentric Brazilian”, was never able to integrate into the national team and was down often in conflict with the coaches, who in Japanese tradition demanded extreme subordination.

Futsal

In 2012, at the age of 45, Miura joined the Japanese national futsal team. In his second international match against Ukraine , he scored his first goal in Japan's 3-1 victory. During the Futsal World Cup 2012 , in which Japan were eliminated in the round of 16, he played all games for the Japanese team.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ World's oldest footballer Kazuyoshi Miura extends his contract in Japan
  2. ↑ Kazuyoshi Miura, 48, improves record as Japan's oldest league goalscorer , theguardian.com, accessed on April 5, 2015 (English)
  3. ↑ Player profile on transfermarkt.de
  4. ↑ Japanese is the oldest professional soccer player in history
  5. ↑ Kazuyoshi Miura signs new contract with Yokohama… taking the 50-year-old into his 33rd professional season. In: dailymail.co.uk. Accessed January 11, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Oldest football professional worldwide: "King Kazu" extends contract with Yokohama FC , transfermarkt.de, accessed on January 11, 2020
  7. ↑ Kazu marks first futsal goal in win over Ukraine. Japan Football Association , October 28, 2012, accessed December 29, 2019 .
predecessor Office successor
Kim Joo-sung Asia's Footballer of the Year
1993 		Said al-Uwairan
personal data
SURNAME Miura, Kazuyoshi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 三浦 知 良 (Japanese); Miura, Kazu; King Kazu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Shizuoka , Japan