The inter-school tournament is heating up!
After trailing by a goal, Nankatsu
was saved when Ishizaki sacrificed himself,
allowing Tsubasa to score with a game-tying overhead kick,
Wakabayashi felt the pain of defeat upon surrendering a goal,
but his teammates\' feelings managed to rouse him back to his feet,
Who the hell are you?
I\'m Taro Misaki,
I look forward to playing with you, Tsubasa!
Tsubasa and the team had Taro Misaki replace the injured Ishizaki
allowing them to control the pace of the match, ,
But, in the second half of extra time, with,
Taki\'s corner kick, Wakabayashi struck with a powerful shot,
Wakabayashi wasn\'t satisfied, declaring their aim to score again
to ensure their victory, but,
Tsubasa has yet to accept defeat,
Aiming for victory,
both he and Misaki\'s spirits are running high!
EPISODE 9: A HAPPY ENDING,
We are a minute into the second half of extra time,
and with keeper Wakabayashi\'s goal,
Shutetsu is in the lead again!
Nankatsu has to make up ground once more!
We\'ll catch up for sure!
Yeah!
That\'s right! The match isn\'t over yet!
My legs will give everything they\'ve got to make it tied!
You have nothing to worry about anymore, Genzo, ,
The match resumes!
As it is an inter-school match, there is no more extra time,
Can Nankatsu possibly tie or overcome them
with just four minutes of time remaining?
Don\'t let them regain their pace, get the ball back!
Tsubasa can tie this up for sure!
Tsubasa!
Go, take your shot!
Misaki!
With all the chances these two have created, expectations are still high! ,
Shimada, get to Tsubasa!
Nakamoto, get to Misaki!
Mark both of them thoroughly!
Yes, captain! ,
All right!
Whoa! Tsubasa sends a long pass to the flank!
Got it!
Nankatsu\'s passes are connecting, and the team pushes forward on the attack!
That\'s it, everyone! That\'s the way!
Iwami is quickly approaching the goal!
Sure, but we all know the shooter will be either Tsubasa or Misaki,,,!
Both Tsubasa and Misaki are approaching from either side!
Here they come!
Shutetsu\'s defenders try to intervene!
Counting on you!
Iwami dodges and crosses the ball in!
Who is it for, Tsubasa or Misaki?
Wakabayashi intercepts it with a leaping catch!
Good move, Genzo,
You can keep this up for rest of the match, ,
This time, Wakabayashi makes a nice save! ,
Go!
Everyone, fall back!
Nankatsu\'s players quickly pull back to defend!
It\'s so late into extra time, and they don\'t look winded at all!
Where were they hiding all this energy?
Oh hell, they\'re going to try the birdcage again!
What? Birdcage?!
We\'re not interested in that, anymore!
We\'ll aiming to score! ,
We\'ll secure our victory!
That\'s right!
Show them the dignity of Shutetsu!
Kisugi!
And now the ball is sent up to Shutetsu\'s lead scorer!
Will Shutetsu be able to score the decisive third goal?!
Like I\'d let you!
Wait, he passed to the right instead of shooting?!
Izawa is making a run for it!
The keeper stretches, but can\'t react,,,!
Misaki!
Misaki blocks it!
Misaki has shown us a fine play!
That\'s great, Misaki!
That guy, when did he,,,?
It\'s our turn to attack now!
All of you, stop him!
Misaki dribbles ahead, reminiscent of Tsubasa\'s earlier moves!
I\'ll even the score!
You won\'t get past me!
He gets by with ease!
Being that he was such a late substitution,
he is full of energy!
His dribbling is so sharp!
It\'s no wonder we were no match for him,,,
That Taro, I thought he was late, So this is what he\'s up to?
Less than three minutes remain!
Nankatsu needs to make use of this chance!
He dodges another player!
Misaki leaves everyone in the dust as he speeds ahead!
But here is Tsubasa, approaching from the other side!
Come!
Go for it, Nankatsu!
Genzo, this is your last trial,
I\'m counting on you,,, Tsubasa, Misaki! ,
Wakabayashi stands firm as his challengers approach!
Will Tsubasa shoot? Or will it be Misaki?
Stop him!
Shutetsu\'s defense comes up!
Tsubasa!
Misaki crosses the ball into an opening!
So it\'s you in the end, huh, Tsubasa?!
What?! ,
Tsubasa foregoes the shot and passes the ball back!
Misaki comes in with a diving header!
I won\'t let you!
Wakabayashi\'s reaction is relentless!
Wait, Misaki passes it back again!
They scored, GOAL! ,
The game is tied!
Nankatsu has tied the score again!
We did it!
Tsubasa!
We did it! Yay!
Tsubasa, nice shot!
Nice assist, Misaki!
What a wonderful double play from Tsubasa and Misaki!
You\'re so cool, Tsubasa!
You did good, Tsubasa!
It\'s a tie!
We did it, coach!
Yes,
You did it, Tsubasa!
Taro,,,
Genzo, this one was unavoidable,
Captain,,,
Captain, we\'re sorry,
We didn\'t mark them,,,
What\'s gotten into you guys?
They haven\'t out-scored us yet,
Get back at them!
Captain!
We still have time!
Let\'s give it our all!
Yes, captain!
It\'s like a game of cat and mouse!
We can\'t guess how this game will end! There are only 2 minutes left in this match!
We\'ll win for sure! For our captain as well!
Let\'s go!
Yeah!
The match resumes, and the heated clash continues!
Shutetsu attacks!
But Nankatsu has stolen the ball!
Shutetsu wins it back!
Both teams have played for over 45 minutes,
They are tired to their roots, but
they are still aiming for victory, playing through their exhaustion!
There\'s less than a minute left in the match!
There will be no more extra time after this!
Fight, Nankatsu!
Don\'t lose, Shutetsu!
A cross for Kisugi goes up!
Nankatsu defenders put pressure on him! ,
Damn it!
He shoots from below!
Straight to the keeper!
Recovers the ball and makes a long pass to open space!
Takasugi! Go, mark him!
Takasugi with a sliding tackle!
Alright, time to attack!
Misaki steals the ball!
There are only moments left in this game!
Tsubasa! ,
Alright!
The referee is looking at his watch!
Leave it to me!
Wakabayashi and Tsubasa move towards the ball!
Tsubasa! ,
Captain!
Wakabayashi and Tsubasa jump up simultaneously!
This is their last bout!
No goal! ,
That\'s it! The sign to end the match!
After 50 minutes of playtime, the football match
ends without a decisive goal! It\'s a tie!
The 26th inter-school tournament
has ended in a draw, for only the second time in its history! ,
You got me, Tsubasa, ,
It\'s a tie, then,
Tsubasa!
Genzo!
It\'s over!
As soon as I thought about the game being over, I\'m suddenly aching all over,,,
Me too!
I\'ve kinda lost all the power in my body,
Nice match, Nankatsu!
We didn\'t think you would play this well,
I\'ve changed my opinion about you guys,
You all did well!
That\'s Shutetsu, Japan\'s best for you!
You did well too, Nankatsu!
Nobody will ever call you a lame football club again!
Tsubasa, let\'s meet on the pitch again,
Yes!
Thank you for cheering today!
Tsubasa! ,
Boss!
Tsubasa, it was a nice game,
Yeah,
But, this is just the beginning,
Your life as a footballer has only just begun!
Good morning, Roberto,
Good morning!
Huh, where is Tsubasa?
Isn\'t it obvious? Gone to play football again,
The inter-school tournament just ended, and yet,,,
That boy,,,
All right!
Not there yet!
I can\'t believe they can still keep at this,
You said it,
I\'m exhausted from all the work from the inter-school tournament,
I wonder which one of them is better?
Their skill at dribbling is about equal, but,,,
I guess Tsubasa is better when it comes to shooting,
Yeah, you\'re right,
Now, here comes a shot from Taro Misaki, from Nankatsu Elementary!
Can you still say that after seeing this?
Anyway, as long as we have both of them,
the national tournament isn\'t a distant dream!
Yeah! Let\'s beat Shutetsu in the next inter-prefecture tournament
and attend to the Nationals!
That\'s going to be impossible,
Ishizaki!
Hi!
Why is it impossible?!
Oh, it\'s Ishizaki!
Yeah! We tied them in the inter-school tournament after all!
I\'m not saying we can\'t beat Shutetsu,
but Nankatsu City decided to create a local team selection,
Local team selection?
What are you talking about?
Hey there, Tsubasa!
Well, until now, schools have participated in
prefecture preliminaries on their own, separately,
This year, Nankatsu City has decided to gather the best from each school,
and create the Nankatsu Youth Football Club to represent the city,
The level in the national tournament is increasing as well,
so most of the other cities are forming their own city clubs,
You mean we might play alongside members from Shutetsu?
Yeah, If you want to participate in the Nationals,
you\'ll have to make it into the city selection first,
Apparently, there are going to be tryouts soon, ,
Tryouts, huh?
All right! I\'ve got to work hard to pass too!
There is no way they\'ll pick you, Manabu,
You won\'t be able to make it in, even as a substitute!
That\'s not true!
We tied against Shutetsu,
Even I can do it!
Yeah, if we practice hard enough, it\'ll work out, somehow!
All right! Let\'s start our training for the tryouts!
Yeah!
They\'ve gained a lot of confidence since the inter-school tournament,
That goes for me too, though,
So, what are you planning to do, Roberto?
Well, I\'m thinking of going back to Brazil,
Is that so?
What are you going to do after that?
You don\'t need to worry about me, Captain,
That won\'t be happening again,
What do you mean by that?
Well, actually,,,
That incident was also how I met with the Captain,
I\'m ashamed to say it, but I was living as an aimless drunkard, miserable and depressed
ever since the doctor told me I should give up football,
Well, if I couldn\'t play the football which I had bet my entire life on,
I figured, well, I would die sooner or later, So,,,
Whoa, a person just jumped!
What?!
That\'s insane!
How could they do that?!
Captain saved me on the spot,
Not only that, but he also introduced me to the world\'s best ophthalmologist,
It\'s unfortunate how the results turned out, though,
You felt so cornered, especially since you really dedicated your entirely life to football,
Well, not as much as Tsubasa,
You know, this may sound unreasonable coming from a troublemaker like me, but,,,
I have one more request from you,
Request?
Well done, Genzo!
That\'s it for today,
Mr, Mikami, I can keep going,
Tsubasa and his friends must still be practicing,
You still haven\'t recovered from the inter-school tournament,
It\'s not good to overexert yourself,
Yes, sir,
Young Master! Young Master!
There\'s a shipment for you!
Is there something interesting in the magazine, Genzo?
I am going out for a bit, Mr, Mikami,
All right, I\'m starting,
Keep yourself together!
He went that way!
Damn it!
Argh, I wanna practice too,
Won\'t it get better already?
Ouch!
Huh?
Oh, Wakabayashi!
You know, I thought I\'d get to try and beat you this time,
but now they\'re saying they\'ll be selecting a team for the city,
Sure is unnecessary,,,
Forget about that — tell me where Roberto Hongo is!
That\'s a threatening look in your eyes,,,
Coach hasn\'t been here today,
Did you know about his eyes?
Huh?
What are you talking about?
So you really don\'t know?!
Roberto Hongo can\'t play football anymore!
What?
Roberto is,,,
Look at this,
Retirement?!
Wait, why did our coach retire?
He was diagnosed with retinal detachment,
But he can play together with us!
Don\'t mix the professional stage with our elementary school football!
He may be able to play with you, but he can no longer stand in the same field with the pros!
Roberto,,,,
Tsubasa!
I will ask Roberto directly!
Okay then, we\'re coming, too!
Roberto is retiring?
Be friends with the ball,
Not being able to play,,,!
What?
I am begging you, Captain!
Also you too, Mrs, Ozora!
I will definitely make him grow into a world-class player!
So please,,,
Roberto!
Please, let me take Tsubasa to Brazil! ,
Tsubasa!
Roberto,,, is it true that you can\'t play football anymore?
Yeah, ,
You really can\'t play football?
Yeah,
I can never stand on the football pitch again,
Roberto, Brazil is a football country, right?
It sure is! ,
All of its citizens love football, and live their lives with it,
Roberto, I am coming with you to Brazil! ,
Tsubasa,,, ,
Then, we\'ll have to play to our heart\'s content until then,
Okay, guys! We\'re giving these tryouts our best!
We\'ll pass them and play together with Tsubasa in the Nationals!
Yeah!
The day for the Nankatsu Youth tryouts has arrived!
The tryouts are held in a match format,
Coach Shiroyama and his staff watch each of them for 5 minutes and make evaluations,
The team was built around Wakabayashi, and the Shutetsu Quartet has demonstrated their skills,
At this rate, we might select everyone from Shutetsu,
Don\'t be so sure, yet,
There are many players here, ,
There ought to be some players that are better than Shutetsu\'s!
Tsubasa! ,
That was a jumping volley!
That\'s way beyond an elementary school level!
Shit, it is going to be Tsubasa after all, ,
Terrific!
I\'ve decided on the the center-forward for our team,
Roberto!
I\'ll win the National Tournament and go to Brazil together after that,
Tsubasa,,,
Young ones!
You all did well in the heat today,
Your vigorous plays are sure to be seen by the coa-,
Get on with it and just announce the selected players!
Yeah, he\'s right! ,
But,,, I\'m the mayor,,,
Here are the results of the tryout!
From Shutetsu, Wakabayashi and the Shutetsu Quartet,
From Nishigaoka, Urabe, From Yamabuki, Kishida,
From Nankatsu, Tsubasa, Misaki and Ishizaki,
Looks like I managed to make it in!
Tsubasa, it looks like we\'re part of the same team this time,
I\'m looking forward to it!
Yeah,
50, 51, 52, 53,,,
It\'ll be fine to let Roberto look after Tsubasa, ,
It\'ll be better for Tsubasa\'s growth as a player to be in Brazil, ,
We might get a little lonely,
but parents shouldn\'t get in the way of children pursuing their dreams,
You\'re right,
For Tsubasa, instead of being confined to Japan, the vast lands of Brazil will suit him better,
Yeah, Don\'t lose to yourself, Tsubasa!
99, 100!
Roberto, I did a hundred!
Okay! Now, lift the ball 200 times while using your head and knees, ,
Sure!
1, 2, 3, 4,,,
COMING UP, EPISODE 10: KOJIRO ARRIVES
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!