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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Kazuyoshi miura - Caught on Camera

Is Kazuyoshi Miura the oldest goalscorer in competitive football history?

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The Guardian - UK

59-year-old Japan legend scores ahead of his 42nd professional season

The Japanese legend began his professional career in 1986

FourFourTwo

World's oldest professional football player signs for one more season

Japan's Kazuyoshi "King Kazu" Miura, who turns 59 in February, joined third-division Fukushima United on loan from Yokohama FC.

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World’s oldest professional footballer, 58, signs new deal ahead of 41st season

Kazuyoshi Miura, known as ‘King Kazu’, started his career at Brazilian club Santos back in 1986

The Independent UK

‘He showed his backside to the nation’: Football's ultimate journeyman has retired

After three decades and more than 50 transfers, 46-year-old striker finally hangs up his boots

FourFourTwo

Oldest Soccer Players Past & Present

From record-breaking legends to current veterans defying age, discover the oldest soccer players in history and those still playing today.

Sports Illustrated

Japanese Soccer Legend Kazuyoshi Miura Celebrates 40Th Season

Kazuyoshi Miura, 'King Kazu,' celebrates 58th birthday and gears up for his 40th season in professional soccer, inspiring fans and athletes with his enduri...

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Japanese forward 'King Kazu' turns 58 and prepares for his 40th season in professional soccer

Japanese forward Kazuyoshi Miura has turned 58

The Independent UK

All the sports stars retiring in 2025, those weighing up their options, and those playing on

Geraint Thomas says 2025 will be his last year in the UCI pro peloton

Evening Standard

Football's ultimate journeymen

These players certainly got about over the course of their careers!

FourFourTwo

What is the latest meeting between two football teams with perfect records?

Plus: the biggest age difference between scorers, swift strikes, more tattoos and generational international talent

The Guardian - UK

Chelsea to sack Enzo Maresca and Jack Grealish to shine: FourFourTwo's 2024/25 predictions for the Premier League

The Premier League season is underway - but what will happen? We ask our team of experts to give their boldest predictions

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Saipan, placid island setting for Assange's last battle, is briefly mobbed — and bemused by the fuss

Saipan is a relaxed, rural island in the Northern Marianas

The Independent UK

World's oldest ever professional footballer Kazuyoshi Miura to play on age 57 after transfer move

Kazuyoshi Miura has been a professional footballer since 1986

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The best players never to play at the World Cup

Some of the game's very best never got to grace its greatest stage

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The best Asian footballers ever

Ranking the continent's finest players of all time

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The maddest career moves of football legends

Charting the most bizarre transfers by some of the game's most iconic players

The Hindu

Oldest pro soccer player Miura not ready to retire, set to play again in Portugal

Kazuyoshi Miura, 56, defies age and signs new loan deal in Portugal. Former Japan national team forward has played in Brazil, Italy, Croatia and Australia, scoring 55 goals in 89 games.

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Former Japan striker Kazuyoshi Miura makes Oliveirense debut at 56 years old

The forward, who is on loan from Yokohama FC, came on in the 90th minute against Academico de Viseu on Sunday

The Guardian - UK

King Kazu’s astonishing longevity and a new move to Portugal

In today’s Football Daily: Kazuyoshi Miura, Jedi tricks and more

Daily Mirror

Japanese football legend joins Portuguese second tier club weeks before his 56th birthday

Kazuyoshi Miura is the world's oldest active professional footballer and has signed for a new club - 37 years after the Japanese hero first played for Brazilian side Santos

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Kazu returns to Qatar for first time since 'Agony of Doha'

Japanese soccer legend Kazuyoshi Miura was among the spectators in the stadium during Japan's stunning victory over Germany at the World Cup on Wednesday -- his first time back in Qatar since playing in the 1993 game known in Japan as the "Agony of Doha."

Bangkok Post

Pathum desperate for victory

BG Pathum United need a win when they host lowly Police Tero on Wednesday to put their Thai League 1 campaign back on track.

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