Tokyo, Dec. 30 (Jiji Press)–Japanese soccer legend Kazuyoshi Miura, 58, will join Fukushima United in the third division of the Japan Professional Football League, or J. League, the club said Tuesday. Miura, a former Japan international striker known as “King Kazu,” will play for Fukushima on loan until June next year, his first return to the J. League, the country’s top soccer league, in five years. “I will make a new challenge,” Miura said in a statement. “My passion for soccer never changes no matter how old I get.” He spent last season with Atletico Suzuka in the Japan Football League, the highest amateur-level soccer competition in the country. END [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]
Japanese Soccer Legend Kazuyoshi Miura, 58, to Join New Club
Related Posts
Putin Sends New Year’s Message to Trump, But Not to Takaichi
Tokyo, Dec. 30 (Jiji Press)–Russian President Vladimir Putin has extended his Christmas and New Year’s greetings to U.S. President Donald Trump and other world leaders, but not to Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. The Russian presidential office on Tuesday announced a list
Taiwan: president, ‘from China, provocation for regional security and international order’
(Adnkronos) – “China ignores the international community’s expectations for peace and insists on undermining regional stability with military intimidation.” This is the denunciation from Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te (William Lai), as China continues its large-scale military maneuvers around Taiwan, a de facto
