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Kazuyoshi Miura: Football's Noriaki Kasai, still scoring goals at 50

Kazuyoshi Miura

Japanese soccer player Kazuyoshi Miura is a true phenomenon. He is football's Noriaki Kasai or Ole Einar Bjørndalen, who at the age of 50 can compete with colleagues more than half his age on the green. More. Recently, this world's oldest professional soccer player broke his own age-old scoring record. He scored a goal at the age of 50 years and 14 days! At such an old age, no one has managed to do this. Watch the historic goal.

Kazuyoshi Miura it is the oldest professional soccer player in the world. He is old 50 years and play for the team Yokohama FC, who performs in the second Japanese league. Recently, he decided the match against the team with his goal (he saved a kick in the goal). Thespa Kusatsu and thus became the first professional footballer in all history to score a goal at an old age 50 years or more.

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Kazuyoshi Miura celebrating a historic goal.
Kazuyoshi Miura celebrating a historic goal.

It makes for an even sweeter feeling his goal decided the match. Miura celebrated Abraham February 26, 2017 and just over a week ago he first became the oldest professional footballer to play at a professional level, and now he has improved age shooting record (now he can 50 years and 14 days), which was already in his possession. The game already its 32nd season. During his long career, he also played for the famous Brazilian team Santos, for Italian Genoa, and he played for the Japanese national team 89 times and scored 55 times. He never played in the World Cup.

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