5. Great Soccer Players

There are many great soccer players in J. League.

First, Nakayama Masashi was great player. He is called by the nickname called Gon Nakayama. It is him that scored most goals in J. League. The number of his total goals is 157. It is surprising number because the number of most second total goals is 139 so there are difference of 20 goals between the first place and second place. This record is not broken for a while. And, he also left record which scored goals most in one season. In 1998, he scored 36 goals. In the same year, he attained the four-game continuation hat trick. This record is authorized by the Guinness record. Moreover, he attained the hat trick in 3 minutes and 15 seconds since the game began, this records is also authorized by the Guinness record. Although these records are also great, he has more wonderful record. It is the oldest record as a soccer player of J. League. He retired as an active player in 2012, however, he had been playing soccer on the active list to 45 years old. He has supported the Japan soccer during 19 years as a professional soccer player. Probably, there is no person who loved soccer like him so.

Miura Kazuyoshi is a great player in the same generation of Nakayama Masashi. He has been supporting Japan soccer with Nakayama. He is the oldest player of J. League now when Nakayama returned to private life. He has the one representative of Japan most score record. He is also a player of the time of J. League opening, and is king of a Japanese soccer.

 There is a great soccer player otherwise. The name is Endo Yasuhito. He is a player of the representative of Japan who belongs to the Gamba Osaka. He came out as a representative of Japan in 2002 and now he became the player who participated in the game most as a representative of Japan. His path is very exact and serves as an offensive starting point. He is a player who now does not make it write the representative of Japan as a game maker. He became the Asian Footballer of the year in 2009. Although Gamba Osaka had demoted to J2, it achieved the championship by J2 with his power this year. And Gamba Osaka determined to promote to J1.he is 33 years old now, however, he will contribute to a victory as a center of the representative of Japan from now on.