{"id":377163,"date":"2025-12-30T11:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T11:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/377163\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T11:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T11:18:10","slug":"japanese-soccer-legend-kazuyoshi-miura-58-to-join-new-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/377163\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Soccer Legend Kazuyoshi Miura, 58, to Join New Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"csp-catelogo\">\n\t\t\t\t\tNewsfrom Japan\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"c-cate c-cate0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/articlelist.html?f=ncf-category&amp;s=Sports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tDec 30, 2025 18:02 (JST)<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo, Dec. 30 (Jiji Press)&#8211;Japanese soccer legend Kazuyoshi Miura, 58, will join Fukushima United in the third division of the Japan Professional Football League, or J. League, the club said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Miura, a former Japan international striker known as &#8220;King Kazu,&#8221; will play for Fukushima on loan until June next year, his first return to the J. League, the country&#8217;s top soccer league, in five years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will make a new challenge,&#8221; Miura said in a statement. &#8220;My passion for soccer never changes no matter how old I get.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He spent last season with Atletico Suzuka in the Japan Football League, the highest amateur-level soccer competition in the country.<\/p>\n<p>END<\/p>\n<p class=\"photo_box_c_v2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2930899.jpg\" class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"gallery\" data-libid=\"2930899\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 5px; border: 0; padding: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2930899.jpg\" data-libid=\"2930899\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-keywords\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <a href=\"\">Jiji Press<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newsfrom Japan Sports Dec 30, 2025 18:02 (JST) Tokyo, Dec. 30 (Jiji Press)&#8211;Japanese soccer legend Kazuyoshi Miura, 58,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,18507,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-377163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-jiji-press","11":"tag-soccer","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}