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!
With only five minutes to go in their second match of the All Japan High School Soccer tournament, Seiseki earn themselves a one-goal lead over Ichiboshi, an unpredictable team spearheaded by the legendary Miran Aiba, a formidable opponent who's earned himself a place among the Top Ten in the second year of his high-school soccer career. After spending the entire game focusing on shutting Aiba down, Usui sees an opportunity for a counter attack and seizes it without a moment's hesitation…and before Ichiboshi knows what hit them, the rest of Seiseki's third-year defenders are there to back him up. Will Seiseki advance to the third round, or have Usui and his friends' three years of hard work come to an end?!