1986 young soccer player named Kazuyoshi Miura signed in Brazilian santos, as there was no professional football in his country Japan at that time. A year later, in Rosario, Argentina, he was born. Lionel Messi, or otherwise “GOAT” or otherwise, Argentina’s most important football legacy since Maradona, who most recently, at the age of 35, ended his World Cup career in the best possible way.

1993 again, after a four-year spell in Brazil in which he went through six different teams such as Santos and Palmeiras, and after returning as a star to his country as early as 1990, Miura “took it into his own hands” Gary Lineker, who was playing in Nagoya Grambus at the time, his title Best player V J-league.

A year later, England’s leading footballer hung up his boots to pursue a career as a sportscaster, which he continues to do today. This year 2023, Kazuyoshi Miura reappears. his 38th season as a professional soccer player, since he signed with her Oliveirense from the second Portuguese division, on loan from Yokohama, a month to 56 years.

OUR “King Kazu” as a nickname for a Japanese striker, he played football in five different decades and, he says, he wants to keep playing until he’s 60. And he shows an almost religious devotion to keeping his body in the best possible shape: he wakes up at 5, follows a strict diet and takes frequent ice baths, and is said to weighed and measured the amount of fat five times a day.

Such a long career can be coded in different ways. “Kazoo” played in hope six different countries (Brazil, Japan, Italy, Croatia, Australia and now Portugal) and four different continents. What 1994 he played on loan at Genoa and it happened the first Japanese player to be promoted to the Italian first division. He participated in 89 Japanese cups and he scored 55 goals in his national team shirt – what makes him second top scorer in Blue Samurai history.

During his career, he sent a total of 259 balls in the net. What 1996 became the top scorer in the J-League with 23 goals. 2017, at the age of 50 years and 14 days was done the oldest player to score a goal in a professional game, for Yokohama. Since 2005, he has been part of the J-League team, sometimes on loan here, sometimes there, passing through His 19th season with the team.

As you can imagine, at the age of 55 and starting his professional career at the age of 19, Kazuyoshi Miura hasHe has the longest career on the football field and is the oldest professional footballer in the world.

“This is a new place for me, but I will work hard to show everyone the game they know me for,” the Japanese said of his new team, which seems to have been the motto of his entire career.

“Kazoo” must have now learned to live with everyone wondering “how does he do it”. However, a few years ago his friend Roberto Baggio, not at all puzzled, he had to give him the most simple and essential advice: “Just keep going.”