It\'s the grand finals of the National Youth Football Tournament,
Oddly enough, we have ended up with the same pairing as the very first match, ,
The final match begins!
Hyuga rushes forward in Nankatsu\'s side,
Tsubasa! I\'ll settle the score with my football today!
Bring it on, Kojiro Hyuga!
Tsubasa Ozora, the captain, goes to engage!
Is it already time for a clash?!
How do you like,,, this?!
Hyuga unleashes a powerful shot!
The ball slams into Tsubasa\'s stomach!
EPISODE 23: PRODIGY KEEPER RETURNS!
Tsubasa!
That bastard!
He hit him on purpose!
What?!
The ball is sent to Misaki,
The winner isn\'t going to be you, Hyuga,,,
It\'s going to be me! ,
This guy,,,!
It\'s just as he says, Kojiro,
Misaki,,,
I may have played alongside you while I was in Meiwa Elementary,
But now, I\'m a player at Nankatsu SC, and I\'m your opponent!
I\'ll definitely hold that championship pennant in my hands with Tsubasa!
What?!
It\'s a long pass meant for Tsubasa!
Nice, Misaki!
As expected of Nankatsu\'s Golden Duo!
Tsubasa directly aims for the goal,,
It flies right towards the corner of the goal!
H-he got it!
What?!
He follows through with a forward somersault! ,
That\'s a perfect landing!
A stunning save by the goalkeeper Wakashimazu! ,
Nice, Wakashimazu!
Well done, Wakashimazu!
His performance against Furano was clearly no fluke! ,
Wakashimazu is a skilled goalkeeper, indeed!
I\'m sorry, but as long as I\'m here,
I won\'t let you score a single time this match,
What,,,?!
Victory will be Meiwa\'s!
Is it time for Meiwa\'s attack?
I\'ll get this in one go,
Pass me the ball!
Yes!
Let\'s get the first goal,,,
And who said you could?!
What?!
Ishizaki forcibly intercepts the ball!
I got it!
That was great, Ishizaki! Keep that up!
Take this, Taki!
Got it!
He quickly passes the ball to Taki on the right side!
Nankatsu attacks once again!
They\'re relentless!
Stop him! Don\'t let him cross!
Meiwa uses a two-man sliding tackle to steal the ball!
However, Misaki recovers the ball!
Today, I definitely won\'t lose!
Tsubasa is running in front of the goal,
Mark him!
Nankatsu is once again planning on scoring with their Golden Duo!
Here comes the cross!
It looks like Tsubasa was just a bait!
I\'ve got it!
What?!
The keeper, Wakashimazu, catches the ball!
Another nice save from him!
Damn it!
While the defenders were lured by Tsubasa,
Wakashimazu was the only one who was able to calmly read into their strategy,
This goalkeeper is the real deal,
Not just his ability to save, but his judgment is excellent, too,
I guess this makes me the third best goalkeeper,,,
It\'s no wonder he was able to stop my penalty kick,,, ,
This is as far as Nankatsu will get!
Let\'s do this, captain!
Nice pass, Wakashimazu!
All right! If Hyuga\'s on it, we\'re sure to score!
Stop him! Don\'t let him get through!
Let\'s go, Nankatsu!
Stop me if you can!
I\'ll show you the full extent of my skills!
Nankatsu tries to stop him with two players!
These bastards,,,
Hyuga forcefully breaks through!
This is Hyuga\'s power! His lust for victory! ,
Takeshi!
Hyuga passes the ball to Sawada and starts running to the goal,
If Nankatsu has Tsubasa and Misaki, Meiwa has Hyuga and Sawada,
Hyuga!
All right!
Damn it!
The pass reaches Hyuga in front of the goal!
Eat this, Nankatsu!
What?!
He\'s stopped!
The keeper, Wakabayashi, hangs on to the ball! ,
That\'s Wakabayashi for you!
That\'s right, If Meiwa has Wakashimazu, then Nankatsu has Wakabayashi!
People expect a great deal from Genzo Wakabayashi in the future,
having already shown his skills at the national level,
That was a perfect jump and a perfect save!
That was great, Wakabayashi!
Genzo Wakabayashi blew our captain off, just like that,,,
Hyuga, I came here to pay you back,
I definitely won\'t lose to you!
Damn it! Just watch me, Wakabayashi!
I\'ll definitely steal a goal from you!
Go and get that first goal, guys!
Both keepers are pretty good, aren\'t they?
Neither Hyuga nor Tsubasa will be easily scoring today,
I couldn\'t have asked for more,
What?!
The striker of Toho Academy can\'t be less than a genuine ace striker
who is able to score, even against the best goalkeepers,
Tsubasa!
Like we\'d let you!
Tsubasa slips by with feints!
He quickly accelerates and dashes towards Meiwa\'s goal, ,
Think hard, Tsubasa!
You won\'t get past that keeper simply by kicking the ball,
In football, you must use your imagination,
Everything and everyone on the field can be used to your advantage,
I\'ll score the first goal—this time, for sure!
Tsubasa gets in position to shoot,
What kind of shot will it be?
All right, I don\'t care where you shoot from!
Wait, he misses the ball! ,
What?!
No, it was on purpose!
Wakashimazu is tricked by Tsubasa\'s feint and loses his balance!
Crap!
Wakashimazu,,,!
Misaki shoots!
What?!,
Despite being off balance, Wakashimazu deflects the ball with his foot!
Nice, Wakashimazu!
Meiwa doesn\'t follow the ball!
It goes to the crossing specialist, Taki!
Great!
All you, Tsubasa!
This time, for sure!
A direct shot from Tsubasa!
H-he got it!
How the,,,? ,
Wakashimazu!
That was a breathtakingly nice move!
He did it!
He jumped off the goal post in the opposite direction,
and made a ridiculous catch, ,
His play has left everyone standing in awe! ,
That\'s Wakashimazu for you, ,
The blood of generations of karate practitioners flows in his veins, ,
He owes those sharp reflexes of his to the karate he learned from before enrolling in elementary school,
That move where he uses the goalpost is just a variation of the triangle kick from karate, ,
Ken Wakashimazu,,,
The only option I might have to defeat him may very well be my overhead kick,
Tsubasa Ozora,,,
Hyuga!
I won\'t let you get in my way this time,
I\'ll score!
A diving catch from Wakabayashi!
What?!
That\'s right! Wakabayashi is a prodigy goalkeeper, capable of stopping each and every shot
made from outside the penalty area,
Did you see that, Hyuga?
Even Tsubasa can\'t score against him from outside of the penalty area,
Of course it\'d be impossible for you!
"Even Tsubasa," he says,,, ,
That\'s very interesting,
That means that if I\'m able to score from outside of the penalty area,
that will prove that I\'m better than Tsubasa!
We\'re 10 minutes into the first half, and the score is still 0-0
thanks to the efforts of Wakashimazu and Wakabayashi,
Which of these teams will be the first to score?
These guys have all leveled up their individual skills since we first played against each other,
However, we will win!
It\'s only natural that their marking is focused on Tsubasa,
That means I have a chance!
All right! I, Teppei Kisugi, will try scoring for once!
Tsubasa!
The pass reaches Tsubasa, right in front of the goal!
Damn it! Even though we\'re marking him so closely,,,
All right!
Will Tsubasa score this time?
Or will Wakashimazu, the keeper, stop him again?
Come on!
It\'s no good, If I take this shot, it won\'t get past Wakashimazu,
Tsubasa!
Kisugi?
Even though he was in position to shoot,
Tsubasa sends a pass in the opposite direction instead!,
What?!
What a great show of judgment! ,
Okay, I\'ve got this!
Crap!
Nankatsu\'s ambush force, Kisugi shoots!,
What?!
It won\'t go in!
What\'s with those reflexes?!
Wakashimazu parries this shot away, too!
Nice, Wakashimazu!
Even that wasn\'t enough?!
That\'s it, it\'s time to use my overhead kick! ,
This form,,, Tsubasa\'s setting up for an overhead kick!
Wakashimazu has yet to get up!
As if I\'d let you!
The mid-air overheads clash!
Hyuga managed to block Tsubasa\'s overhead kick with one of his own!
Captain!
Tsubasa!
I won\'t let this ball go to waste!
I\'ll score!
Come at me, then!
The ball,,,
Shoot,,,
Shoot,
I\'ll shoot it!
What?!
Tsubasa!
What?!
This has become a synchronized twin shot by Misaki and Tsubasa! ,
What the,,,
The ball,,,
Goal!
The goalkeeper, Wakashimazu, couldn\'t react to the shot!
12 minutes into the first half, Nankatsu finally scores the first goal,
You did it! You scored the first goal!
It\'s in,,,
We did it, Tsubasa!
We just scored the first goal!
Huh, yeah,
I hit my head when I fell, so I didn\'t see you coming to shoot, ,
But we really did score, didn\'t we?
You did it! Tsubasa! Misaki!
Guys!
That was an awesome shot!
Since Tsubasa and Misaki both kicked the ball,
the ball wobbled strangely,
making it hard to keep track of as it traveled forward so quickly, ,
Even Wakashimazu was unable to stop it,
despite putting up an iron defense thus far!
That shot was awesome!
As expected from Tsubasa and Misaki,
I\'ve been watching football for many years,
but it\'s my first time seeing such a shot!
You finally did it,,, Tsubasa, Misaki!
Damn it! Why couldn\'t I react to that shot? ,
Damn it all!
Wakashimazu,,,
It\'s all right,
Forget about that one, Wakashimazu,
They won\'t fire another shot like that,
That was a fluke,
Captain,,,
I\'ll get back at them for that goal!,
In this scorching heat, what kind of offense
will Meiwa FC show us, now that they\'re a goal behind?
"If you take one, give one back!"
That\'s the golden rule of battle,
I am counting on you, Kojiro,
I will protect this lead no matter what,
I am coming for you, Nankatsu!
Hyuga ferociously attacks!
Did falling behind set his fighting spirit alight?
What a competitive drive!
We won\'t let you continue!
Nankatsu doggedly rushes to defend!
What a sharp sliding tackle!
,
His prodigious power and sense see him through! ,
Nankatsu can\'t stop him!
All right! Go, Hyuga!
We\'re counting on you to tie it!
Kojiro\'s dribbling is as impressive as always,
I often saw it when I played with him during my time at Meiwa,
The minutes after you score are the most important,
I will stop you no matter what, Kojiro!
Misaki interrupts with a sliding tackle!
Oh, but Sawada is here to recover the ball!
Hyuga!
Here\'s a big chance!
Is he aiming for a long shot again?!
I will score!
I will score with a shot from outside the penalty area!
Eat this!
It\'s Hyuga\'s long distance bullet shot! ,
The ball rockets towards the goal with a dreadful sound!
Wakabayashi!
Regardless of how many times you try,,,
That just won\'t work on me!
It\'s caught!
It\'s a brilliant diving catch!
Hyuga\'s third attempt ends without a goal!
He might not be as flashy as Wakashimazu,
but his defense is just as solid, nonetheless!
That\'s Genzo Wakabayashi, Nankatsu\'s goalkeeper for you,
That\'s right, Genzo,
The most important thing for a goalkeeper is a
solid, error-less play style,
That\'s three times now that I wasn\'t able to score,,,
Damn it all!
Hyuga takes a shot from right outside the penalty area!
But Wakabayashi dives and catches this, as well!
Looking cool, Wakabayashi! ,
If it were me up there, those incredible shots would likely be goals instead,
Right, right,
It looks like your leg is doing well, Wakabayashi,
Damn it!
Captain,,,
Why are you so obsessed with shooting from so far out?
Did you just say, "on purpose"?
Most likely,
Wakabayashi has never conceded a goal from outside of the penalty area,
a feat that is nothing short of legendary,
Hyuga is desperate to prove his abilities by crushing that legendary reputation,
But that is a huge pitfall for a striker to fall into,
To put it bluntly, right now, Hyuga is failing the test to become Toho Academy\'s ace striker,
Kojiro,
Hooray! Hooray! Nankatsu!
There\'s less than a minute left in this half!
Score a goal, Hyuga!
Just one minute left!
Meiwa eagerly attacks, as they want to score a goal
and end this half with a tie!
Send it to me!
Captain! ,
Meiwa once again sends the ball forward to Hyuga!
This time, I\'ll score!
This last shot will also be from outside the penalty area!
Eat this!
It\'s a powerful shot!
Will Wakabayashi be able to catch this as well?!
Oh! Another player moves in as the shot is taken!
It\'s Sawada!
Wakabayashi is caught by surprise!
Oh no!
I did it!
Has Meiwa tied the score before the end of the half?!
Ah, Wakabayashi!
He plants his hand on the ground and barely manages to kick the redirected ball away!
Wakabayashi!
The whistle blows! The first half is over!
Wakabayashi has defended Nankatsu\'s goal well,
allowing no goals in the first half!
Despite conceding a goal, Wakashimazu has also performed brilliantly this half,
It\'s safe to say that the first half was all about both of these goalkeepers, ,
Good work, guys!
Thanks!
- That shot by Tsubasa and Misaki was particularly incredible! - ,
It seems like they\'ll be recording it officially as an assist for Misaki, and a goal for Tsubasa,
That means Tsubasa now has 28 goals!
He\'s one goal ahead of Hyuga in the scoring competition!
Don\'t you dare lose to likes of Hyuga!
Frankly, I much prefer something else over the top scoring player title,
The championship pennant!
We have all worked hard for the sake of winning the championship pennant, haven\'t we?
Let\'s win it no matter what, guys!
Tsubasa,,,
Of course, that goes without saying!
I don\'t want to lose after making it this far!
We owe Meiwa back after that first match,
Tsubasa, you are an even greater captain than I was for Nankatsu SC, now,
It was about to go in,,,
It was so close,
True,
Takeshi,
Yes!
Don\'t do something like that again,
Captain,,,? ,
Hyuga,,,
I\'ll be frank, The way you\'ve played today is not Meiwa\'s usual style,,
What did you say? ,
Meiwa\'s is supposed to be a style of football that wins at all costs,
But today, Hyuga, all you\'ve done is shoot over and over again from outside the penalty area!
That is nothing like Meiwa\'s football!
Hyuga! ,
Takeshi,,,
Y-yes?
You are right, ,
It seems my impatience is getting the better of me,,,
Honestly, my admission to Toho Academy is at stake, here,
What?!
You mean that Toho Academy, the famous football academy?!
That\'s it,
They scouted me at the end of the first match,
They told me they\'d give me a full ride until college, with all of my education expenses paid, ,
At home, we are struggling to make ends meet
for our family of five, after my father\'s death, ,
Frankly, I was thrilled,
But the scout also mentioned they were looking at Tsubasa Ozora,
In short, I think she will pick whoever wins this battle,
That\'s why I kept shooting from outside of the penalty area,
to prove once and for all that I am superior to Tsubasa,
But that was a mistake,
I was getting impatient,
I finally realized that, once Takeshi told me,
Hyuga,,,
I will steal a goal from Wakabayashi in this second half, no matter how!
That\'s Meiwa\'s style, our winning football!
We will turn this around, and win for sure!
Hyuga!
,
Captain!
You are right!
Let\'s do it, Hyuga!
We, Meiwa, will be the champions!
Before they\'ve realized it, these guys have become a strong, tightly-knit unit, ,
As they rally around someone who has become their pillar of strength, Hyuga,
all eleven members of this team have become as one,
There is no reason why this team, Meiwa FC, can\'t become champions,
Isn\'t there, guys?
Let\'s do this!
Half-time is over, and the players from both teams are again out on the field,
Only these last 20 minutes remain,
Just 20 more minutes left,
If I win, I\'ll be going with you to Brazil, Roberto!
Hurry up, mom!
Kojiro\'s match has already begun!
All right, all right!
The second half begins!
Nankatsu has a one-goal lead,
Will they be able to keep it up and raise the purple championship pennant?
Or will Meiwa turn the tables this second half, and become the champions instead?
Look, it\'s our brother!
Kojiro,,,
All right!
Let\'s show them how Meiwa plays this game in the second half!
Yeah!
COMING UP; EPISODE 24: PERSEVERANCE, PURE PERSEVERANCE!,
The smell of the grass when I stumbled,
the endless blue of the sky above,,,
This winding, back-and-forth path
is a map for our endless dreams,
Even if my hopes miss the goal
if I stand back up, my dreams will never end,
No,1! Race forth, faster than anyone,
Make a starting dash toward the world stage with your tricky plays!
Run & Run!
Aspirations are the one buzz, buzz, buzz that gets us moving
Blaze, blaze, blaze! Let\'s go, it\'s kickoff!
Leap out into a giant field of dreams
koronda toki no shibafu no nioi
aogimita sora no ao hateshinakatta
mayotte modori susumu kidô ga
hateshinai yume o miru boku-tachi no chizu
goal o soreta kibô ga atte mo
mata tachiagaru nara yume wa owaranai,
No, 1! Dare yori hayaku kakenuke
tricky na play de sekai e muke Start! Dash!
Run & Run!
Akogare dake ga boku-ra o chiri-chiri-chiri ugokasu yo
mera-mera-mera iku ze kickoff
tobidasô dodekai dream field
chotto are mi na ace ga tooru
suguremono zo to machijû sawagu
chô-chô samba, zigzag samba
aitsu no uwasa de chamba mo hashiru
sore ni tsukete mo ore-tacha nan na no
ball hitotsu ni kiri-kiri mai sa,
Dash, dash, dash! Kick and dash!
Itsuka kimeru ze inazuma shoot
son toki ore ga super hero sa,
Dash, dash, dash! Kick and dash!
Moete seishun kakenukero,
Hey, look over there at the ace passing through,
He\'s the best, and the whole town cheers him on,
Butterfly samba, zig-zag samba,
Even little old ladies go around talking about him,
So, even if we have him, who are we?
The ball spins round and round,
Dash, dash, dash! Kick and dash!
One day, I\'ll score with a lightning shot!
When that happens, I\'ll become a super hero!
Dash, dash, dash! Kick and dash!
This fierce youth is on the field!