Tokyo-Sana
Japanese striker Kazuyoshi Miura has become the oldest player to participate in a game in the Japanese football limelight league after capturing Yokohama FC today at the age of 53, 34 years after his first match in the professional world.
"When I came on the pitch, I felt a great desire to fulfill everyone's ambitions and very proud to wear the captaincy," Reuters quoted Miura as saying, and this was Miura's first match in the JLL since 2007, where Yokohama played for 12 years in the second division before climbing up the season. the past.
Miura scored 55 goals in 89 appearances for Japan and made his last international match in the year 2000.
Today he broke the previous record set by striker Masashi Nakayama, who was 45 years old when he participated with Consadole Sapporo in 2012.