Yokohama FC

by @pedrob

2021-01-12T06:00:01+00:00

Sports • Soccer

Soccer: Kazuyoshi Miura to play on at 54 after signing an extension with Yokohama FC

Kazuyoshi Miura in 2012 **Credit:** norio nakayama (Creative Commons Attribution 2.0)

Japanese soccer legend Kazuyoshi Miura is set to play another season after extending his contract with Yokohama FC. Miura will be aged 54 when the season starts.

The striker is one of the most revered sportsmen in Japan and was at the forefront of the country's football boom in the early 1990s when he was the poster boy of the newly launched league in 1993.

The Guinness World Record for the oldest professional footballer is held by Israeli Isaak Hayik, who played in goal last April for Israel's Ironi Or Yehuda, aged 73.

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