Kazuyoshi Miura. (Hoto na AFP, Fayil)
Tsohon dan wasan kwallon kafa na kasar Japan Kazuyoshi Miura ya rattaba hannu a kungiyar ta uku Fukushima United yana da shekaru 58, ya tsawaita aikinsa na ƙwararru zuwa kakar wasa ta 41.
Miura, wanda aka fi sani da “King Kazu”, zai koma kulob din a matsayin aro har zuwa watan Yuni. Ya cika shekaru 59 a watan Fabrairu.
“Sha’awar kwallon kafa ba ta canza ba, komai yawan shekarun da na samu,” in ji Miura a wata sanarwa da Fukushima United ta fitar. “Na yi matukar godiya da aka ba ni damar buga wasa a Fukushima, kuma zan yi gwagwarmaya sosai a matsayina na memba na Fukushima United. Bari mu kafa tarihi tare!”
Tsohon dan wasan na Japan ya shafe kakar wasa ta bara tare da Atletico Suzuka mai mataki na hudu, inda ya buga wasanni bakwai kafin kungiyar ta koma gasar yankin. Yunkurinsa zuwa Fukushima yana nuna komawa ga tsarin J. League – manyan sassa uku na kwallon kafa na Japan – a karon farko cikin shekaru biyar.
Miura ya ce a shirye yake ya rungumi kalubalen da sabon kulob dinsa, wanda ya kare a mataki na 10 a rukuni na uku na kungiyoyi 20 a bara. Ya kara da cewa “Ga dukkan ‘yan wasan Fukushima United, ma’aikatan horarwa, magoya baya, masu tallafawa da kuma jama’ar yankin, na yi alkawarin cewa zan yi wasa da duk abin da zan ba da gudummawa.”
Miura ya fara aikinsa na ƙwararru ne a shekara ta 1986 tare da ƙungiyar ƙwallon ƙafa ta Santos ta Brazil kuma tun daga nan ya taka leda a Italiya, Croatia, Australia da Portugal. Ya taka rawar gani wajen daukaka martabar kwallon kafa a kasar Japan lokacin da aka kaddamar da gasar J. League a shekarar 1993.
Ya buga wasansa na farko a duniya a shekarar 1990 kuma ya zura kwallaye 55 a wasanni 89 da ya bugawa kasar Japan, duk da cewa an cire shi daga cikin ‘yan wasan da kasar za ta buga wasan karshe na gasar cin kofin duniya a shekarar 1998. Ya kasance daya daga cikin ‘yan wasan kasar Japan guda uku da suka ci wa tawagar kasar kwallaye sama da 50, tare da Kunishige Kamamoto da Shinji Okazaki.
A cikin 2012, yana da shekaru 45, Miura kuma ya wakilci Japan a futsal, ya bayyana a gasar. Gasar Cin Kofin Duniya.
A waje da filin wasa, Miura ta auri tsohuwar ‘yar wasan kwaikwayo kuma model Risako Shitara tun 1993. Suna da ‘ya’ya biyu, Ryota da Kota.
