A soccer player who began his career before Lionel Messi was born signed a new contract to keep playing until he’s almost 55

• Japanese soccer star Kazuyoshi Miura has signed a brand new contract to maintain him at Yokohama FC for one more 12 months.
• That will sound unremarkable, however Miura is at the moment 53 years outdated.
• He began enjoying professionally in 1986, earlier than Lionel Messi was born, and has made virtually 750 appearances in his profession.
• So lengthy is Miura’s profession that he retired from worldwide soccer over twenty years in the past.

At 43 years and 129 days outdated, Tom Brady grew to become the oldest quarterback to throw an NFL postseason cross on Sunday.

Brady may well be considered very old for an elite sportsman, however he is acquired nothing on Japanese soccer star Kazuyoshi Miura.

Aged 53 years and 318 days, Miura has simply signed a brand new contract together with his facet Yokohama FC that may see him play on till he’s virtually 55.
Miura, who made his skilled debut for Brazilian facet Santos in 1986, will begin his seventeenth season with Yokohama, . He might be 54 throughout his thirty sixth season general, celebrating his birthday on February 26, the day earlier than Japan‘s elite league, the J.League, kicks off.

“Final season, I used to be feeling the enjoyment of enjoying soccer at a time when the world was dealing with a troublesome scenario due to the brand new coronavirus,” he said in a statement, as cited by Reuters.

Miura, who helped Yokohama to promotion from J.League 2 to the J.League within the 2019 season, has performed 649 membership video games in his skilled profession and an extra 89 for the Japanese nationwide facet. He retired from the worldwide sport in 2000, greater than twenty years in the past.

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