{"id":11398,"date":"2022-03-16T18:19:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T12:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=204015"},"modified":"2022-03-16T18:19:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T12:49:36","slug":"eldest-player-in-jfl-kazuyoshi-miura-at-the-age-of-55-still-running-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/eldest-player-in-jfl-kazuyoshi-miura-at-the-age-of-55-still-running-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"Eldest player in JFL! Kazuyoshi Miura at the age of 55 still running strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Kazuyoshi Miura, who is 55 years old, broke the record is being the eldest player in the JFL. The previous JFL benchmark for the oldest player was 43 years old.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Miura has repetitively rewritten history books and shows no signs of slowing down.\u00a0<\/span>The veteran\u2019s appearance garnered a record audience to an amateur league game, breaking the previous attendance record. The game attracted a record crowd of 4,620 people for Miura\u2019s debut. The previous high attendance for a Suzuka club game was 1,308, which occurred in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Suzuka\u2019sseason-opening in the JFL took place in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Fans who came to witness Miura were not dissatisfied because he was chosen to the starting lineup.\u00a0<\/span>Even though Miura did not score, he featured 60 of the game\u2019s 90 minutes. Suzuka defeated Rein Meer Aomori FC 2-0 after Miura was substituted off and his teammates scored two goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Miura is recognized as a soccer legend in Japan, having previously played for the national team. After Yokohama FC was relegated to the J.League\u2019s J2 Division for the following season, he moved with Suzuka in January. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Kazu at 55 returns to the pitch, plays for 60 mins and draws a record-breaking crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":266,"featured_media":33868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[493],"class_list":["post-11398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-japan"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}