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Team Index Albirex Niigata Kashima Antlers Omiya Ardija Avispa Fukuoka Shonan Bellmare Cerezo Osaka Consadole Sapporo Ehime FC Kawasaki Frontale Gamba Osaka Nagoya Grampus Gifu FC Mito Hollyhock JEF United Jubilo Iwata Yokohama Marinos Montedio Yamagata Urawa Reds Kashiwa Reysol Roasso Kumamoto Sagan Tosu Sanfrecce Hiroshima Kyoto Sanga Shimizu S-Pulse Thespa Kusatsu FC Tokyo Oita Trinita Vegalta Sendai Ventforet Kofu Tokyo Verdy Vissel Kobe Tokushima Vortis Yokohama FC | |
When Yasutoshi Miura retired, at the end of 2003, he was the league's oldest player. Miura is probably best known for being the elder brother of Kazuyoshi "Kazu" Miura, but despite the heroics of younger-brother Kazu, the elder Yasu certainly made his own mark in the league. After playing for Shimizu S-Pulse during the first few years of the J.League, he moved to join his brother at Verdy Kawasaki, where their antics both on and off the field led sportwriters to speak jokingly of the "Kazu & Yasu Show". After Verdy's collapse in 1998, Yasutoshi moved to Avispa Fukuoka, and sank into a spell of mediocrity and relative anonymity. Vissel Kobe reunited the "Kazu & Yasu Show" in 2002, when both players had matured and apparently outgrown their wild youth. Following dedicated physical regimens in an effort to regain some of their lost form, both showed flashes of their old quality in 2003, but clearly were nearing the end of the long road. Yasu finally decided to hang up the cleats after the Emperor's Cup, in 2003. Despite a career in his younger brother's shadow, Yasutoshi Miura make his own mark on the league, in its early years, and he remains closely associated with football as a highly savvy organizer and administrator..
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