@Infinity kad si već spomenuo Miuru evo jedan odlčan post u vezi njega
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Kazuyoshi Miura, also known as "King Kazu" (or just Kazu) is the world's oldest active professional footballer, currently at his 34th season. He was one of Japan's biggest stars (if not the biggest) around the time the J League was launched in the early 90s. Although barely getting playtime anymore while plying his trade for Japanese 2nd division side Yokohama FC, his name still carries a lot of influence in Japanese football. Here are various events from his career put alongside other major events that occured the same year.
1967: Kazu was born. Born a few days earlier was legendary Italian player Roberto Baggio, who retired in 2004.
1973: Kazu joined his first football club, Jonai FC - Johan Cruyff won his second Ballon D’Or
1981: Kazu angered one of his middle school professors by putting “Brazil” as his first choice in a career guidance questionnaire - legendary German striker Gerd Muller retired from professional football
1982: Kazu dropped out of prestigious private high school Shizuoka Academy and got on a plane to Brazil with the goal of becoming a professional player - Aston Villa were crowned the best team in Europe after defeating Bayern Munich in the European Cup final
1986: Kazu signed his first professional contract and made his debut shortly afterwards - Diego Maradona captained Argentina to World Cup glory, scoring the “Hand of God” and the “Goal of the Century” in the process
1990: Kazu returned to Japan in order to establish himself there for the upcoming launch of the J League, making his national team debut shortly afterwards – Germany reunited after the fall of the Berlin Wall
1992: Kazu was a starter of the Japanese squad that won the AFC Cup – Pep Guardiola won his first European Cup (would be renamed to Champions League the following year)
1993: Kazu scored 13 goals in as many games throughout the World Cup qualifiers as Japan barely missed out on qualifying for the 1994 edition. He was also named MVP of the first-ever J League season, ahead of players such as Zico and Gary Lineker
1994: Kazu was loaned out to Genoa, becoming the first Japanese footballer to play in Italy – Patrick Kluivert made his international debut. Kluivert has since retired and his son Justin currently plays for Roma.
1998: Kazu was controversially left out of Japan’s first ever World Cup squad by new coach Takeshi Okada despite having scored 14 goals in as many games throughout the qualifiers. The tournament would be won by hosts France, with a 26 year-old Zinedine Zidane scoring twice in the final against Brazil
1999: Kazu won the Croatian league as a player of Dinamo Zagreb – Gianluigi Donnarumma was born
2000: Kazu played his last national team game, finishing with 89 appearances and 55 goals - Luis Figo’s massively controversial transfer from Barcelona to Real Madrid occurred
2005: Kazu played in his 4th different continent after being signed by Sydney FC to participate in the newly-founded A-League – a peak form Adriano won the Golden Ball and Golden Shoe awards at the Confederations Cup
2007: Kazu was selected for the J League all-star match at the age of 40 – David Beckham joined LA Galaxy
2012: Kazu made his debut for the Japanese futsal national team, playing in that year’s World Cup – Chelsea won their first and so far only Champions League title, beating Bayern Munich on penalties in the final
2017: Kazu broke the world records for oldest professional player and oldest professional goalscorer, records that were set by Sir Stanley Matthews before Kazu was born.
Kazu's team trophies are:
4 Japanese 1st league titles
4 Japanese League Cups
2 Japanese Super Cups
1 Japanese Emperor's Cup
1 Japanese 2nd league title
2 Brazilian state championships
1 Croatian 1st league championship
1 Asian Cup