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 finals of the All-Japan Tokyo Area Preliminaries rage on into the second half. Toin mounts an all-out offense, but Seiseki fires right back! The game remains scoreless, and neither team is giving an inch…until fortune smiles on Tsukushi. Will he be the one to draw first blood?!