In February, Miura chira is about to turn 53, he is still the oldest player in the Japanese professional league, and if the club renews his contract with Miura Chira, it will be the 35th year of the veteran's career.
Yokohama FC has qualified for J1 and the legendary Japanese veteran is likely to play in next season's J1 League.
Not long ago, Miura Chiryo attended a variety show hosted by the famous male idol group "Arashi", talked about his unknown half life, and we met a new Miura Chiryo.
At the age of 52, he has been based in professional leagues for 34 consecutive years, and Miura Chira relies on self-discipline and unremitting exercise as a professional player.
The body fat rate is only 9%, and he rejects high-fat, high-calorie foods as well as alcohol and carbonated drinks, which is difficult for anyone to do.
Miura said: "My passion for football has not faded, and I want to improve through training. I'm dying to be able to play and have a great performance. ”
However, I never expected that when I was a child, Miura Chiryo did not like to train, and there was no motivation to play football, although he could be selected for Shizuoka City, but he was not selected in the selection of Shizuoka Prefecture.
Until the 1970 World Cup, he witnessed pele on tv leading Brazil to win the World Cup, he was obsessed with the personal skills of Brazilian football, and also had an infinite vision of Brazilian football.
His first wish on his path of hope was to travel to Brazil, and Miura's ambitions were seen as a joke by his teachers, but Miura never changed his ambitions and was even subjected to corporal punishment.
However, Miura Chira is a man of his word, and although he entered high school, he dropped out of school after only 8 months of injury, and went to Brazil alone in order to improve his football skills.
The dream trip to a foreign country did not go well, and he even wanted to give up at one point, but when he saw some local children in shabby clothes playing football in Rio Park, he gave up the idea.
Although the ball was worn out and barefoot in the game, he was encouraged by the laughter they were playing football on the pitch.
After four years of wandering in Brazil, 19-year-old Chira Miura signed a professional contract with Santos, where he also met Dunga, the captain of the Brazilian Meritorious Team.
But Santos was also a traditional magnate in the First Division, and he had to switch to a country club when he had no game, and in the next four years Miura went to seven teams.
Switching to a lower-level team, Miura had to spend more than 24 hours on the road to the game, usually Miura would go to the video store to rent some Hollywood movies to watch on the bus, but after the game, he would watch adult movies with his Brazilian teammates...
In 1990, the most important turning point in Miura's career and the most important turning point in the history of Japanese football, he chose to return to Japan to play football, joined Yomiuri, and helped the club win two league titles.
Three years later, the J League was born, Yomiuri FC was later renamed Kawasaki Green, Miura Chira's career continued to take off, in 1993 and 1994, Miura Chira achieved two consecutive J League championships after winning the opening year of the J League.
He scored 20 goals in 1993, became the homegrown Golden Boot, won the "J League Most Valuable Player" award, and also won the "Asian Footballer of the Year" award in the same year.
At that time, Kawasaki was full of greenery, and Miura's salary reached 240 million yen, and each of his advertisements was worth 50 million to 100 million yen.
In August 1993, Miura Chiryo married the beautiful model Sakura Risako, a winner in life, and according to Miura Chiryo, he fell in love with his wife at first sight in a magazine published in 1986.
Miura Chiryo was 19 years old at the time, and the magazine was a handwritten letter from a Japanese reporter during an interview in Brazil, and after reading the magazine, he decided to pursue Satoko Shiraku and must see her if he returned to Japan.
He contacted Sasuke Shiraku through a friend's relationship, and they first met for only an hour in May, but with Miura's strength, they were already eating at the woman's house on December 31.
In the 1993 World Cup qualifiers in the United States, Japan was eliminated in the case of winning the line and drawing, they were eliminated by Iraq at the last minute, and the Japanese team's dream of the first World Cup was shattered, which is also known as the Doha tragedy, Miura Chira witnessed all this.
But Miura Chira was also enshrined in that qualifier, and since he was born in Santos, where the ball king Pele is, he was also called "king pele" by foreign journalists as "king pele".
In addition, Miura Chiryo later became the league's top scorer, and Miura Chira's own photo album also used "king kazu" as the title of the book, and this man was regarded as the "Emperor of Japanese Football" by the Japanese people.
In 1994, Miura joined Genoa on loan, becoming the first Japanese player to enter Italian football and even an Asian, but he did not perform well in Italy, scoring 1 goal in 21 games and soon returning to Japan, but there is no doubt that he was a pioneer in influencing Japanese football.
According to his Yokohama FC teammate Daisuke Matsui, Miura Chira created the system and tradition of Japanese football, it was he who personally negotiated to get the athletes paid for the game, it was he who introduced the utensils manager for the Japanese club, and it was he who popularized the cold shower.
In the national team, Miura Chiryo scored 55 goals for the Japanese team from 1990 to 2000, second only to the Japanese champion Kunigami Kamoto in the 1960s and 1970s, but Miura Chira never played in the World Cup.
In the 1994 World Cup qualifiers in the United States, Japan was forced to draw by Iraq and eliminated miserably, in the 1998 World Cup qualifiers in France, Miura Chira staged a senior year in the match with Uzbekistan, helping the Japanese team to successfully enter the World Cup, but the then coach Takeshi Okada arbitrarily excluded Miura Chira from the big list.
Miura's Dream of the World Cup was completely shattered, and after the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan, the 35-year-old Miura Chira never had the opportunity to play for the Japanese national team.
Miura, who returned home after an unknown three days in Switzerland, where the training camp is based, said in an interview: "We have left our honor and soul for football and as a Japanese team there, and hope that they can continue to work hard there." ”
Miura Chira's defeat is known as the biggest event in the history of Japanese football, but according to Miura Chira, three days after losing the big list, he drove to Milan to play around.
He and the equally unsuccessful Kitazawa Hiroshi ate and drank in Milan, walking around during the day, eating, going to clubs at night, staying in the best hotel suites in Milan, and then sending the invoice to the Japanese Football Association for reimbursement.
Along with the dazzling honors, Miura also tasted the tragedy, humiliation and turmoil of the football life, but Miura's story is still not over.
Kawasaki Green's backstage Japan Yomiuri News Group greatly contracted funds, began to divest to engage in baseball, Kawasaki Green Team strength declined rapidly, changed its name to Tokyo Green Football, restructured into a new company operation, salary talks and other issues, Miura Chira left the Green Team.
In 1999, Miura chose to stay in the ocean again and came to Dinamo Zagreb, Croatia, but once again returned to Japan due to poor performance.
In 2000, Miura played for Kyoto Undead Bird, where he scored 17 goals in the league and ranked third in the top scorers list, but the club was unfortunately relegated to the J2 League.
He then played for Victory Kobe until 2004, when Miura was 37 years old and had reached retirement age, but he chose to join Yokohama FC for 14 years, except for a brief three months on loan at Sydney FC, Miura Chiryo never left Japan.
Daisuke Matsui expressed his highest respect to Miura Chiryo, saying: "There are also 18-year-old young people in the team, and Miura Chiryo is very ordinary in the main battle with them, and does not ask for any special treatment. ”
Miura is king because he has always practiced the most in the whole team, Matsui said: "He trains the most, and he thinks about every game more strongly than anyone. Everyone has times when they lose motivation, and there are times when young players can't compete, but Miura Chiryo is alone in sports, and maybe he will really die without moving. ”
Time came to March 12, 2017, J2 League Yokohama FC against Gunma FC, 50-year-old Miura Chiryo made three consecutive starts for Yokohama FC, he took the ball from the left wing to the enemy line, got up to shoot, the ball hung directly on the opponent's right side of the net, and the goal miura Chira jumped the famous "Miura Samba".
The goal also made him the oldest player in the Japanese pro league, and he also broke the record for the world's oldest goalscorer, after Meredith scored a goal at the age of 49 and 208 days in the 1924 FA Cup between Manchester City and Brighton.
After Miura Chira also won the Guinness World Record "world football goal oldest player" official certification, after Miura Chira scored the first goal after the age of 50, fifa, bbc, Sky Sports, Guardian, Telegraph, team newspaper, Sun and other foreign media have been the first time to report, he is not only a living fossil of Japanese football, "king kazu" is also one of the figures concerned in world football.
As long as every time he plays, every time he scores a record, "I'll go all the way down until the last moment of my life." That's what he said.
Beating Ehime FC 2-0 at Yokohama, 52-year-old Chira Miura came off the bench to raise the record for the oldest professional player in world football to 52 years and 272 days.
In the end, the team qualified for the J1 League, and Miura Chiryo returned to the J1 League after 13 years.
Miura said: "I still feel that maybe I won't propose to retire myself, because I really like football, but I have no interest in watching or teaching. ”
Fate, perhaps burning his own life on the court is miura Chira's fate, his soul is dominated by football, he was born for football, this is Miura Chira as a great football player to abide by the creed of life.