Kazuyoshi Miura sets new mark as 50-year-old goalscorer

Kazuyoshi Miura, 50, has become the oldest professional footballer to score a competitive goal

Kazuyoshi Miura has become professional football's oldest goalscorer at the age of 50 years and 14 days.

The former Japan striker scored the winner in Yokohama's 1-0 defeat of Thespa Kusatsu in the second division of the J-League.

Miura is already professional football's oldest known player, having beaten Stanley Matthews' record earlier this month.

"I'm always looking to score, but I had an especially good feeling today," Miura, who is in his 32nd year as a professional, told Kyodo news.

Image: Kazuyoshi Miura is professional football's oldest player at 50

"I had the vibes of a goal. I was just trying to stay positive."

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Miura, whose career has also included spells in Italy and Croatia, scored 55 goals in 89 appearances for Japan between 1990 and 2000.

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England great Matthews scored his last goal as a professional in a competitive match for Stoke City against Swansea in the FA Cup fifth round in 1964 when he was 49 years, 14 days old.

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