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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 89 matches.
三浦 知良
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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 89 matches.
He plays for Yokohama F.C. 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 holds the records for being the oldest football player and oldest goalscorer in Japan"s professional leagues at aged 48.
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 football player there.
He signed with Clube Atlético Juventus, a youth club in São Paulo Paulo, and in 1986, Kazu signed his first professional contract with Santos. He played for several Brazilian clubs including Palmeiras and Coritiba until his return to Japan in 1990.
He was named the first J. League Most Valuable Player in 1993 and the last unofficial Asian Football player of the Year in 1993. Miura then became the first Japanese football player to play in Italy, joining Genoa C.F.C. in the 1994-1995 Serie A season.
In his Italian stint, he played 21 times and scored just one goal, during the Genoa derby against Sampdoria.
He returned to Verdy Kawasaki for the 1995 season and played with them until the end of the 1998 season. Kazu made another attempt at playing in Europe with Dinamo Zagreb in 1999. He returned to Japan however, following a brief trial with Bournemouth, in the same year, and played with Kyoto Purple Sanga and Vissel Kobe, before eventually signing for Yokohama F.C. in 2005.
He played with Sydney Football Club of the A-League on a two-month loan in late 2005, appearing in league matches and the 2005 Fédération internationale de football association World Club Championship held in Japan.
Kazu scored two goals in his second A-League match, a 3–2 defeat at league leaders Adelaide United. He is known for his trade mark Kazu Feint and his famous Kazu dance when he scores great goals or great plays.
In 2007, Kazuyoshi Miura was selected for the 2007 JOMO All Stars match for J-East and played exceptionally well. In November 2015, Miura signed a new one-year contract with Yokohama F.C. at the age of 48.
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. Miura scored fourteen times for Japan during qualification for the 1998 Fédération internationale de football association World Cup, leading the Blue Samurai to their first ever Fédération internationale de football association World Cup finals. With Yomiuri/Kawasaki, Kazu won four consecutive league titles playing alongside fellow Japanese national team regulars Ruy Ramos and Tsuyoshi Kitazawa. Yomiuri won the last two Journal of Symbolic Logic titles in 1991 and 1992 and Verdy Kawasaki won the first two J. League titles in 1993 and 1994.
