{"id":712802,"date":"2026-07-27T00:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/712802\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T00:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:59:13","slug":"kazuyoshi-miura-worlds-oldest-professional-footballer-59-scores-first-goal-in-nearly-four-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/712802\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazuyoshi Miura: World’s oldest professional footballer, 59, scores first goal in nearly four years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kazuyoshi Miura, the world’s oldest professional footballer, scored his first goal in nearly four years at the age of 59 for Japanese third-tier side Fukushima United.<\/p>\n

Miura found the net in the 52nd minute to make it 5-0 to Fukushima in an eventual 7-0 win over Iwaki Furukawa in the Emperor’s Cup on Saturday.<\/p>\n

It is his first competitive goal since netting for Suzuka PG, now Atletico Suzuka, against FC Osaka in November 2022.<\/p>\n

Dubbed ‘King Kazu’ in Japan, he is one of the country’s most loved sportsmen and was the face of the J League when it launched in 1993.<\/p>\n

He started his career with Brazilian side Santos in 1986 and has also played club football in Italy, Croatia and Australia.<\/p>\n

The forward’s long career will enter a 42nd season after extending his loan at Fukushima from J2 League side Yokohama FC until June 2027.<\/p>\n

Miura signed for Yokohama in 2005 but has not played a minute for them since 2020.<\/p>\n

He scored 55 goals in 89 games for Japan and has previously talked about playing into his 60s.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kazuyoshi Miura, the world’s oldest professional footballer, scored his first goal in nearly four years at the age…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-712802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}