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A truly great coach makes the game of soccer interesting! Tatsumi Takeshi is 35 and has spent the last few years coaching in England before being brought back to Japan to coach his old team. His favorite pastime? Causing giant upsets—aka Giant Killing! (Source: Kodansha USA)
Nine is the number of the best striker in soccer. Given the number 9 in the Megumi High soccer team, Fujiyama Kazuya is a striker with a parallel belief that a draw in a game has no meaning. To him, if you don't win, then there's no sense in playing at all. Despite that kind of mentality, their team has never won a game as of yet. How far forward will the boy who has never been victorious--but even so, is determined to win--reach when a mysterious man called Kuniyoshi Utagawa, who has a liking for the number nine, makes his appearance? Goal Den Age is a manga that was published in serial SPECIAL soccer cartoon.
The manga follows Atsuhiko Kouno, a soccer player who represented Japan in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and had high expectations to become a star player. Now in 2002, he is 31 and has somehow slipped into obscurity. One day, he receives a notice from his champion team that they are canceling his contract. Atsuhiko is offered a new contract for his former team JEM Chiba, and it is there that he wagers his comeback. However, he's known on his new team as the "former Japan representative," and his young teammates make fun of him and treat him coldly because he's still wearing the #10 jersey even though they think he's past his prime. Through all this, Atsuhiko silently continues to practice in hopes of making a comeback. (Source: ANN)
Catcher Kaneda, who plays in an independent league, possessed a unique characteristic that doesn't even exist in professional baseball...!