From Tsuyoshi Yasuda (Over Drive) comes the most exciting soccer manga in the world! During his last spring break before starting high school, Tsukushi Tsukamoto meets Jin Kazama, who invites him to a pick-up soccer game. Their chance meeting, and his first-ever experience with soccer, move kind-hearted, timid Tsukushi to enroll in his new high school's soccer club, which is among the strongest in all of Japan. Unbeknownst to the rest of the world, there's something amazing hidden inside Tsukushi's heart ... and through his trials and tribulations in the soccer club, it's beginning to blossom!
The Seiseki High School soccer team is a powerhouse with a long history of dominance. They come by their reputation honestly...but so do their opponents in the finals of the All-Japan High School Soccer Tournament Tokyo Preliminaries: Toin Academy, better known among high school soccer fans as The Reigning Champions. It's a white-hot match from the word go, with Mizuki, Oshiba, Kimishita, and Tsukushi leading a fierce assault for Seiseki and Hoshina serving as the linchpin of Toin's ironclad defense. With neither team giving an inch, who will draw first blood?