🔗 Share this article <strong>'Let's forge history'</strong> - Kazuyoshi Miura, fifty-eight, joins a fresh team. Kazuyoshi Miura, who turns 59 in February and is recognized globally as football's most senior pro, has agreed to a temporary transfer until June with J3 League club Fukushima United. The transfer means Miura might feature in the J.League - the top three divisions of Japanese football - for the first time in five years. The ex-international forward, who started his career with the Brazilian club Santos in 1986, failed to score in just over an hour across seven appearances last season while on loan at JFL side Atletico Suzuka. "My love for the game remains undimmed, regardless of my age," he said as he gears up for a forty-first campaign as a pro footballer. "I am truly thankful to be given this opportunity. I promise I will play with everything I have to make a contribution. Let's make history together!" Known as 'King Kazu' in Japan, this will be Miura's fourth loan since 2022 from J2 League side Yokohama FC. Miura, who has also played club football in Australia, Italy, and Croatia, joined the club in 2005 but has not played a minute for them since 2020. He netted 55 goals in 89 games in an international career that ended in 2000, two years after his notable omission from the squad for Japan's first World Cup finals appearance. Miura, who has talked of playing until he is 60, said he was ready to "embrace a fresh test" after being demoted last season to the country's lower regional divisions. Fukushima ended the season in tenth place in the twenty-club J3 League last season.