{"id":786298,"date":"2026-07-26T23:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T23:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/786298\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T23:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T23:36:11","slug":"kazuyoshi-miura-worlds-oldest-professional-footballer-59-scores-first-goal-in-nearly-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/786298\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazuyoshi Miura: World&#8217;s oldest professional footballer, 59, scores first goal in nearly four years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kazuyoshi Miura, the world&#8217;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<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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&#8217;s Cup on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is his first competitive goal since netting for Suzuka PG, now Atletico Suzuka, against FC Osaka in November 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dubbed &#8216;King Kazu&#8217; in Japan, he is one of the country&#8217;s most loved sportsmen and was the face of the J League when it launched in 1993.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He started his career with Brazilian side Santos in 1986 and has also played club football in Italy, Croatia and Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The forward&#8217;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<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Miura signed for Yokohama in 2005 but has not played a minute for them since 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He scored 55 goals in 89 games for Japan and has previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/66171076\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">talked about playing into his 60s.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kazuyoshi Miura, the world&#8217;s oldest professional footballer, scored his first goal in nearly four years at the age&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-786298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}