According to Japanese media outlet sponichi, 54-year-old Chira Miura has confirmed that he will join Japan's fourth division team Suzuka Infinity in the winter window, that is, this winter, and he is still playing for the Yokohama Mariners in Japan's second division.
The 54-year-old Miura Chiryo will celebrate his 55th birthday next month, and as his birthday present, he will accept this invitation from Suzuka Infinity, which is just one of the reasons why he went to play football, and another very big reason is the invitation of Suzuka Infinity's senior Miura Yasunori, looking at the name you can know that they are related, yes! He is the older brother of Miura Chira, who currently works as the director of the Suzuka Infinity Club, and it is this relationship that gives him the confidence to take on the next challenge.
Chira Miura, who currently plays for Nichiren B Yokohama FC
Speaking of the elderly veterans of Japanese football, many fans will say a string of names, such as Yoshito Okubo who has been across the stadium for many years, the legendary Hohito Endo of Gamba Osaka, or the 42-year-old Shinji Ono, who is still active in the Japanese Professional League. But the eldest is our protagonist of this issue, Chira Miura, who is a well-known footballer even in detective Conan.
In the famous Detective Conan Theater Edition of the 11th striker, Miura Chiryo and Conan have a small interaction, unlike the famous player Akagi Ori Takashi Inuyasha in the play or the fictional image of Higo Yutaka, Miura Chiryo and Endo Nobuhito, Kajizaki Masayoshi, Yasuyuki Imano, Kengami Nakamura, these former Japanese internationals form the OB (predecessor) image in the play.
As an evergreen tree in football, Miura Chiryo debuted different from the current Japanese players, he was first trained from the youth training system in Brazil, once joined the Bajia giants Santos Football Club, and then he returned to the domestic club Tokyo Greenery for two consecutive years to win the Player of the Year and led the Japanese team to the top of Asian football in 1992.
Chira Miura, who used to play in Bajia
After that, he began his first road to stay in the ocean, Genoa was his first stop in Serie A, but after just one season he ended this unpleasant experience of staying in the ocean, and then returned to China to continue his own road of killing fours, after which he was not willing to go to the Croatian First League in 1998 to Dinamo Zagreb and won the Croatian First League championship that season, and he also became a pioneer of Japanese football to stay in the ocean.
Although he is currently the oldest player in the current professional league of world football at the age of nearly 55 years old, many people also say that he is just putting on a show, playing 1 or 2 games as a substitute in a season even if he completes his task, and the club also uses him as a golden sign to attract popularity and achieve a win-win situation.
In any case, it is an irrefutable fact that he still chose to stand on the green field and spent half his life in this way. Like the older players in China, Xu Yunlong, Zhou Ting, Lu Lin and Zheng Zhi, he has become a role model for inspiring young players.