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 second round of the All-Japan High School Soccer tournament marks the first match between two of the "Top Ten," the strongest players in the entire league: Miran Aiba, from Ichiboshi Gakuen, and Hisahito Mizuki, from Seiseki High School. The end of the first half finds Seiseki leading two to one, and Tsukushi at his limit...but he's determined to run for his team till he drops. Ichiboshi shows no sign of slowing down. How will Miran Aiba fire back when the fierce battle resumes?!