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Kazuyoshi Miura

1967 - Today

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Kazuyoshi "Kazu" Miura (三浦 知良, Miura Kazuyoshi; born 26 February 1967), nicknamed King Kazu, is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Japan Football League club Atletico Suzuka, on loan from J1 League club Yokohama FC. He is the world's second oldest active player to play and oldest 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. With 55 goals in 89 caps for the national team, Miura is second most prolific goalscorer in the national team's history, behind Kunishige Kamamoto. Miura holds the records for being the oldest active goalscorer in the J-League, the footballer with the world's second longest professional career, and, as of 2025, is the second oldest professional footballer in the world at 58 (behind Robert Carmona). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kazuyoshi Miura is the 220th most popular soccer player (down from 170th in 2019), the 206th most popular biography from Japan (down from 154th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Japanese Soccer Player.

Kazuyoshi Miura is most famous for being the oldest professional footballer in the world. He is a Japanese footballer who plays as a forward for Yokohama F. Marinos.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Kazuyoshi Miura ranks 220 out of 21,273Before him are Graham Taylor, Shozo Tsugitani, Shiro Azumi, Kurt Hamrin, József Bozsik, and Sergio Ramos. After him are Wolfgang Overath, Tsukasa Hosaka, Kenny Dalglish, Andrea Pirlo, Bora Milutinović, and Shojiro Sugimura.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Kazuyoshi Miura ranks 21Before him are Kane, Sam Harris, Toni Braxton, Pamela Anderson, Akshay Kumar, and Bajram Begaj. After him are Philip Seymour Hoffman, Boris Becker, Jony Ive, Mark Ruffalo, Massimiliano Allegri, and Aleksandr Karelin.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kazuyoshi Miura ranks 206 out of 6,245Before him are Susumu Tonegawa (1939), Kitarō (1953), Shozo Tsugitani (1940), Emperor Richū (336), Shiro Azumi (null), and Emperor Kaika (-208). After him are Hideki Shirakawa (1936), Sakichi Toyoda (1867), Ashikaga Yoshiaki (1537), Syukuro Manabe (1931), Imagawa Yoshimoto (1519), and Honda Tadakatsu (1548).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Japan

Among soccer players born in Japan, Kazuyoshi Miura ranks 30Before him are Takeshi Inoue (1928), Kunitaka Sueoka (1917), Junji Kawano (1945), Takeo Wakabayashi (1907), Shozo Tsugitani (1940), and Shiro Azumi (null). After him are Tsukasa Hosaka (1937), Shojiro Sugimura (1905), Ryuzo Shimizu (1902), Arawa Kimura (1931), Tokizo Ichihashi (1909), and Yoshio Okada (1926).