Captain Tsubasa: Road to 2002

About sports About friendship and new challenges/challengers Help the team to be best in the country 

This is a soccer anime that really describes soccer, you can see the MC struggle in playing soccer. Maybe you can see that in Captain Tsubasa or other soccer anime, but in this anime you can see soccer more broadly, and maybe get motivated to play soccer. 

Nice soccer shows, works of the same author. They look like a remake, Captain Tsubasa: Road to 2002 is a "childish" version of Hungry Heart: Wild Striker. 

Although Captain Tsubasa(all series) is about soccer and Major(all series) is about baseball, there main characters are quite similiar. Goro and Tsubasa both love the sport they play. They both are outgoing and competitive. They are not afraid of getting hurt, while playing and can be quite reckless sometimes. They also have similar supporting characters. To list a few----- The cooperative Best friend/ combo: Toshiya Sato (Major),Taro Misaki (Tsubasa). Then there's the tomboy love interest: Shimizu Kaoru(Major), Sanae Nakazawa (Tsubasa). The famous older player they admire/ want to play a match against: Joe Gibson (Major), Roberto Hongo(Tsubasa). Although Major is more realistic, has better quality drawing, and is more recent, give Captain Tsubasa a try (less annoying characters) they both are well known and fun to watch!  read more 

This anime kinda has the same storyline and its about soccer for those soccer fans. Although the main character isn't a genius like the main character here but its really interesting to watch and you can learn about the hardships of soccer or any other kind of sports that you are interested in. 

Both involve Sports but Dear Boys is about Basketball and Captain Tsubasa is about Soccer.But they are quite similar in ways