East Tokyo United (ETU) has been struggling in Japan's top soccer league for the past few years. It has taken everything they have just to avoid relegation. To make matters even worse, the team has lost five matches in a row, leading to abysmal team morale. Even the fans are beginning to abandon them, and rumors hint that the home ground municipality is going to withdraw their support. With countless coaches fired and poor financial choices in hiring players, it is a downward spiral for ETU.
The board of directors, under pressure from general manager Kousei Gotou, takes a gamble and hires a new coach—the slightly eccentric Takeshi Tatsumi. Though considered a great soccer player when he was younger, Tatsumi abandoned ETU years ago. However, since then, he has proven himself successful as the manager of one of England's lower division amateur teams.
Tatsumi's task won't be easy; ETU fans call him a traitor, and the team is pitted against others with larger budgets and better players. Yet even the underdog can take down a goliath, and Tatsumi claims he is an expert at giant killing.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]+ More
Characters & Voice Actors

Akasaki, Ryou
Supporting
Blanc
Supporting
Dulfer
Supporting
Fujisawa, Katsura
Supporting
Fukazawa, Shige
Supporting
Fuwa
SupportingRecommended for you
Major: Message
OVA
24m
Non Non Biyori Movie: Vacation
Movie
71m
The Pet Girl of Sakurasou
TV
23m
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Movie
98m
Scissor Seven 2nd season
ONA
15m
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III - The Advent
Movie
110m
Bungo Stray Dogs 2
TV
23m
Death Parade
TV
23m
One Piece: The Movie 10 - Strong World
Movie
115m
One Piece: The Movie 12 - Film Z
Movie
107m
Fullmetal Alchemist
TV
24m
Kuroko's Basketball
TV
24m