Kazuyoshi Miura

Kazuyoshi Miura, King Kazu, is less an athlete to me than a living argument about persistence. He went alone to Brazil when Japanese soccer had no real path, became the face of the early J.League, and then simply refused to stop, playing professionally past fifty as the oldest pro in the world. The numbers almost stop mattering; the point is the devotion. Every Kazu Dance is a small rebuke to anyone who quits early. I find his career genuinely moving because it proves a thing words can't: that love for the game, fully kept, can outlast the body's expiration date.

Name (English)

Kazuyoshi Miura

Name (Japanese)

三浦知良

Reading

みうら かずよし

Born

February 26, 1967 (age 59)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Goat

Origin

Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Height

175 cm

Occupation

association football player / futsal player

• Official sitehttp://www.kazu-miura.com/index-e.html
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kingofficialv/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuyoshi%20Miura
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%89%E6%B5%A6%E7%9F%A5%E8%89%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q331953

Tags

• Shizuoka Prefecture
• association football player
• futsal player

Last updated

2026-06-17

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