Kazuyoshi Miura
Miura in 2012
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Kazuyoshi Miura | ||
| Date of birth | 26 February 1967 | ||
| Place of birth | Shizuoka City, Japan | ||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Yokohama FC | ||
| Number | 11 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1973–1979 | Jonai F.C. | ||
| 1979–1982 | Jonai Jr. H.S. | ||
| 1982 | Shizuoka Gakuen H.S. | ||
| 1982–1986 | Clube Atlético Juventus | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1986 | Santos | 2 | (0) |
| 1986 | Palmeiras | ||
| 1986 | Matsubara | ||
| 1987 | CRB | ||
| 1987–1988 | XV de Jaú | ||
| 1988–1989 | Coritiba | 21 | (2) |
| 1990 | Santos | 11 | (3) |
| 1990–1998 | Yomiuri/Verdy Kawasaki | 192 | (100) |
| 1994–1995 | → Genoa (loan) | 21 | (1) |
| 1999 | Dinamo Zagreb | 12 | (0) |
| 1999–2000 | Kyoto Purple Sanga | 41 | (21) |
| 2001–2005 | Vissel Kobe | 103 | (24) |
| 2005– | Yokohama FC | 233 | (22) |
| 2005 | → Sydney FC (loan) | 4 | (2) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1990–2000 | Japan | 89 | (55) |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18:00, 11 January 2017 (UTC). |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18:00, 11 January 2017 (UTC).
Kazuyoshi Miura (三浦 知良 Miura Kazuyoshi?, born on 26 February 1967), often known simply as Kazu (his nicknamed King Kazu), is a Japanese footballer. He played for the Japanese national team and was the first Japanese recipient of the Asian Player of the Year award in 1993, an award presented annually by the Asian Football Confederation. He currently plays for Yokohama FC in the J. League Division 2. Kazu, whose rise to fame in Japan coincided with the launch of the J. League in 1993, was arguably Japan's first superstar in football.
Miura scored fourteen times for Japan during qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, leading the Blue Samurai to their first ever FIFA World Cup finals. He played his last national team match in 2000, and finished with the second-most career goals in Japanese national team history with 55 goals in 200 matches.
Miura holds the records for being the oldest footballer and oldest goalscorer in Japan's professional leagues at aged 49. His elder brother Yasutoshi was also a professional footballer.
In 1982, Miura left the Shizuoka Gakuen School after less than a year, and travelled alone to Brazil at the age of fifteen to become a professional footballer there. He signed with Clube Atlético Juventus, a youth club in São Paulo, and in 1986, Kazu signed his first professional contract with Santos. He played for several other Brazilian clubs including Palmeiras and Coritiba until his return to Japan in 1990.
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