Fifty-year-old legend player Kazuyoshi Miura insists he has no plans to retire anytime soon.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m planning to play next year,\u201d Miura told The Japan Times<\/a> ahead of Yokohama FC\u2019s game against Avispa Fukuoka in J-League 2 on Saturday.<\/p>\n \u201cRight now I\u2019m not thinking about retiring. Today I\u2019m not thinking about retiring. I just give my all in training every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Miura, whose nickname is \u201cKazu\u201d, has broken two world records earlier this year when he became the oldest player ever to appear in a professional match at the age of 50 years and seven days.<\/p>\n One week later, he beat Sir Stanley Matthews\u2019 52-year-long record to reign the oldest to score a competitive goal.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fifty-year-old legend player Kazuyoshi Miura insists he has no plans to retire anytime soon. \u201cI\u2019m planning to play next year,\u201d Miura told The Japan Times ahead of Yokohama FC\u2019s game against Avispa Fukuoka in J-League 2 on Saturday. \u201cRight now I\u2019m not thinking about retiring. Today I\u2019m not thinking about retiring. I just give my all in training every day.\u201d Miura, whose nickname is \u201cKazu\u201d, has broken two world records earlier this year when he became the oldest player ever to appear in a professional match at the age of 50 years and seven days. One week later, he beat Sir Stanley Matthews\u2019 52-year-long record to reign the oldest to … Continue reading “Fifty-year-old Kazuyoshi Miura plans to play on”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":7798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[57,392,95,484],"class_list":["post-7797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","tag-japan","tag-kazuyoshi-miura","tag-slider","tag-yokohama-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}