Japanese football legend ‘King Kazu’, 59, scores first goal in four years

Fifty-nine-year-old Kazuyoshi Miura — known as King Kazu and the world's oldest active professional footballer — has scored his first goal in four years. As Al Jazeera reports, Miura netted in a match where his side, Fukushima United, dominated Iwaki Furukawa seven to nothing. At an age when most athletes have long retired, the comeback goal speaks to a remarkable career arc.

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