Kazuyoshi Miura, 58, continues career at Atletico Suzuka in Japan's JFL

Kazuyoshi Miura, born in February 1967, entered 2025 as a 58-year-old footballer and still an active professional. After his time at Yokohama FC, the club he had represented for many years in the J.League, Japan's professional top divisions, he moved to Atletico Suzuka Club, a side in the Japan Football League (JFL), the country's fourth-level competition below the J.League's three divisions.

Miura, nicknamed "King Kazu", began his professional career in Brazil in the 1980s and became one of the best-known figures in Japanese football. He played for the national team in the 1990s and spent decades in Japan's leagues, as well as stints abroad, including in Italy, Croatia and Portugal.

The move mattered because it showed he had no plans to retire. Each new appearance extended his own record as the oldest player to feature in Japanese professional competition, and he was widely described as the world's oldest active professional footballer. Later appearances, including the one at 59 that prompted this follow-up, built on that record.