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!
It’s the finals of the Interhigh preliminaries, and the Seiseki High soccer club finds itself squared off against its biggest rival, Sakuragi High School. Tsukushi watches from the sidelines, cheering his teammates through the shifting tides of battle…but after halftime, he steps out on the pitch, shoulder-to-shoulder with his teammates in one last desperate attempt to take the tournament!