SOCCER PLAYER

Kazuyoshi Miura

1967 - Today

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Kazuyoshi "Kazu" Miura (三浦 知良, Miura Kazuyoshi, born 26 February 1967), nicknamed King Kazu, is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Japan Football League club Atletico Suzuka, on loan from J2 League club Yokohama FC. He is the world's oldest active player to play and score in a professional match. He played for the Japan national team from 1990 to 2000, and was the first Japanese recipient of the IFFHS Asia's Footballer of the Year award. Miura, whose rise to fame in Japan coincided with the launch of the J.League in 1993, was arguably Japan's first superstar in football. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kazuyoshi Miura has received more than 3,337,153 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Kazuyoshi Miura is the 170th most popular soccer player (down from 81st in 2019), the 154th most popular biography from Japan (down from 102nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Soccer Player.

Kazuyoshi Miura is most famous for being the oldest professional footballer in the world. He is a Japanese footballer who plays as a forward for Yokohama F. Marinos.

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  • 62.85

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  • 64

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Kazuyoshi Miura ranks 170 out of 21,273. Before him are Bobby Robson, Kevin Keegan, Laurent Blanc, Oldřich Nejedlý, Gianluca Vialli, and Luis Monti. After him are József Bozsik, Javier Zanetti, Carles Puyol, Felix Magath, Osamu Yamaji, and Lilian Thuram.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Kazuyoshi Miura ranks 17. Before him are Kane, Mikheil Saakashvili, Pamela Anderson, Mark Rutte, Carla Bruni, and Boris Becker. After him are Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, Michael Jai White, Akshay Kumar, Benicio del Toro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Mike Portnoy.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kazuyoshi Miura ranks 154 out of 6,245. Before him are Emperor Kanmu (737), Emperor Kōrei (-341), Torakusu Yamaha (1851), Issey Miyake (1938), Zeami Motokiyo (1363), and Kenzō Takada (1939). After him are Junko Tabei (1939), Kobayashi Issa (1763), Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885), Iwane Matsui (1878), Ken Watanabe (1959), and Shoko Asahara (1955).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Japan

Among soccer players born in Japan, Kazuyoshi Miura ranks 7. Before him are Koji Tanaka (1955), Junji Nishikawa (1907), Kunishige Kamamoto (1944), Hiroto Muraoka (1931), Kakuichi Mimura (1931), and Tameo Ide (1908). After him are Osamu Yamaji (1929), Hiroaki Sato (1932), Yozo Aoki (1929), Kenji Tochio (1941), Ken Noritake (1922), and Yoshio Okada (1926).

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