Japanese soccer journalist Hiroshi Kagawa, who is still plying his trade at the age of 89, will become the first Japanese recipient of the FIFA Presidential Award, an informed source said Friday.

The award will be presented next month in Zurich at FIFA's Ballon d'Or 2014 Awards, which will name world soccer's player of the year for 2014.

Kagawa, a native of Hyogo Prefecture, has been covering the sport at home and abroad for more than 60 years as a pioneer of soccer journalism in Japan. While covering his 10th World Cup this summer in Brazil, he was introduced to FIFA as the world's oldest soccer journalist.

"As Japanese soccer has developed, I guess I was considered as one man who supported that (growth)," Kagawa said.