Rebelote for Kazuyoshi Miura! The 57-year-old former Japanese international announced that he intended to play an additional season with his club Suzuka in the fourth division, according to the Kyodo news agency. A veteran of world football, considered the oldest player still active, the man who will celebrate his 58th birthday next February could then be in his 40th season.
Inspiration d’Olive et Tom
Known as “King Kazu”, Miura is a true star in Japan. Author of 55 goals in 89 appearances with the national team in the 1990s, the striker made his professional debut in 1986 in Brazil with Santos FC, King Pelé's favorite club. He then continued to travel the four corners of the world. A globetrotting life that took him to Brazil, Croatia, Australia and Italy.
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In the summer of 2024, he returned to his native Japan after a two-year stint at UD Oliveirense, in the Portuguese second division. The fifty-year-old owes his fame above all to the fact that he is said to have inspired the most popular football manga of all time: Olive and Tom.
