Title: I am infinite. Song: Forever young. Or also, jokingly: end of sentence never. The news that the Japanese Kazu Miura, who will turn 54 on February 26, has just renewed his contract and has extended his extraordinary career catapult us into a territory where everything is possible and where we continue to play from here to eternity. Un highlander, Kazu Miura. Nothing more, nothing less.
Beyond all records, beyond all logic, beyond all expectations. Miura will also wear the jersey of the Yokohama Fc, club where he had decided to end his career and which plays in the JLeague, the equivalent of Serie A in Japan. It had, imperfect time, by its nature correctable. In fact, then he changed his mind. And he pushed the stake of dreams over there. Today Miura is the oldest footballer to have signed for a professional club. He says his secret is the discipline of a life regulated by healthy eating and training.
The good Miura is an old acquaintance of our league. In Genoa Miura played only one season, in the mid-90s, in 1994/1995. There were 21 appearances with only one goal made, but very heavy, in the derby of the Lanterna. Miura – at the time – was a fast forward, with a burning shot and a decent basic technique, developed in his youth when he left as a boy to go to “learn football” in Brazil. A training internship, to create a curriculum. It looks like the plot of a cartoon, instead it is the story of his life.
In Italy it was a “meteor”, he left after just one year without leaving great memories. In addition to Italy and his homeland, Miura played for four years in Brazil (with glorious clubs such as Santos and Palmeiras), Croatia and Australia.
Today Miura is a man of almost 54 years with salt and pepper hair and the wrinkles to furrow a face that is always smiling in the photos. But the knees hold up, the experience is great and he certainly doesn’t lack enthusiasm. He has obviously been the oldest footballer in the history of professional football for a couple of years, having overtaken in 2018 the English goalkeeper Kevin Poole who retired from football at the age of 51 in 2014. The one that will begin in twenty days will be his seventeenth season with the Yokohama shirt, the number 36 ever, considering that he signed his first contract back in 1986. It was the day before yesterday, it seems the Pleistocene.
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