Let's make this birthday one to remember.

42 years old (Born on March 20, 1983)

Happy Birthday, Eiji Kawashima! You're the only goalkeeper who can make diving saves look cooler than a ninja flip. Ever since your debut with Japan's national team in 2008, you've been stopping goals faster than sushi disappears at dinner time.

From Lierse to Standard Liege and beyond, your gloves have seen more action than most superheroes' capes. Your incredible reflexes during penalty shootouts are legendary—rumor has it strikers still wake up sweating from nightmares of facing you between the posts!

Here's wishing you another year filled with spectacular saves and fewer bruised egos for opposing forwards. Keep flying high!