I found this an entertaining movie. The animation and music are typical for that era of anime. The story is ok.
Simply put it's a story about a boy that hates people and ends up playing soccer .
So what did the other review get wrong ? (spoilers ahead)
" Well, the anime starts by showing that the main character runs fast like a horse " , that is incorrect . The horse was recovering from an injury and the course they are racing on is a ring where the boy runs in the inner ring and the horse therefor has a much larger track as the boy.
"For some reason they take the protagonist's horse away, just like that, out of the blue, to become a racehorse. " ,that is partially correct.
The horse is moved but it is still his horse and remains his horse. The "girlfriend" even goes with the horse in order to train it so that both of them can reach their full potential. I don't understand how the other reviewer missed this as it is mentioned multiple times in the movie and they even explain why the horse is taken away (so that both of them can reach their full potential).
"but out of the blue they say that the world-renowned São Paulo team is going to Japan, and that next year the players in the youth team already have to be drafted to play against strong, world-renowned teams." as the reviewer says he doesn't know about soccer and that becomes very clear with that statement because it is a simple training match , not a world cup match or anything important. It would be likely that they didn't play against Sao Paolo's A team but their B-team . And even if they played the A-team .... there is this thing called an upset. Weak teams sometimes beat much stronger teams .
"And there is another problem in this? he personally goes to talk to the protagonist, BUT HOW CAN A BRAZILIAN PLAYER KNOW HOW TO SPEAK JAPANESE FLUENTLY?" . We can assume they actually would have spoken English but it would have been too much of a hassle so they just kept it Japanese.
"I cannot accept that a teenager who plays soccer for a few months is already playing in a world championship"..... There were 10 months between the 1st match against Sao Paolo and the second match against Spain and we also see a bit of his training. And he doesn't play in the world championship until after the 3rd match so it's actually more like he had about 1 year of training ,probably more. (Also a boy that runs fast ,doesn't know anything about soccer .... that sounds like Days).
No ,this is not the best sport anime ever but it is entertaining if you actually pay attention to the movie.
