Captain Tsubasa is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoichi Takahashi since 1981.
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26 Facts About Captain Tsubasa
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Captain Tsubasa became one of the most memorable manga and anime worldwide, most notably in Japan due to how it popularized association football.
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Captain Tsubasa lives together with his mother in Japan, while his father is a seafaring captain who travels around the world.
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Captain Tsubasa is known as the Soccer no Moshigo which translates as "heaven-sent child of football".
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However, Captain Tsubasa held the ball in front of him which served as a cushion for most of the impact.
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Captain Tsubasa's mother concludes that he was indeed born to only play football.
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At a very young age, Captain Tsubasa already had amazing speed, stamina, dribbling skills and shotpower – he astounded anyone who saw him play.
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Captain Tsubasa meets Sanae Nakazawa an enthusiastic girl who loves football and helps cheer the Nankatsu high school team on and Genzo Wakabayashi, a highly talented young goalkeeper whom he soon challenges to a game in Nankatsu's annual sports festival.
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Captain Tsubasa meets Roberto Hongo, one of the best Brazilian footballers in the world who is a friend of Tsubasa's father and who starts living with Tsubasa and his mother in order to train Tsubasa.
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Roberto becomes a mentor to Captain Tsubasa and helps him to harness his football skills, convincing him to join Nankatsu Elementary School and its fledgling elementary school football team, which Roberto later coaches as he passes his techniques onto Captain Tsubasa.
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Captain Tsubasa asked her out before moving to Brazil and the couple maintained a long-distance relationship before he proposed to her after the World Youth Championship.
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Captain Tsubasa plays very well in training, displaying all his skills, but the Dutch coach Van Saal demotes him to FC Barcelona B, the reserve team that plays in the second division, because Captain Tsubasa and Rivaul cannot play together whilst Rivaul holds a key position for playmaking.
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In Spain, Captain Tsubasa plays three matches with FC Barcelona B and he records 12 goals and 11 assists in three matches.
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Nevertheless, Takahashi asserted it was a decision taken at random and joked that Captain Tsubasa would have joined the Real Madrid if he had visited Santiago Bernabeu.
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In 2005, Japanese television network TV Asahi conducted a "Top 100" online web poll and nationwide survey: Captain Tsubasa placed forty-first in the online poll and thirtieth in the survey.
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Captain Tsubasa has inspired prominent footballers such as Hidetoshi Nakata, Alessandro Del Piero, Fernando Torres, Zinedine Zidane, Lionel Messi, Alexis Sanchez and Andres Iniesta to play football and choose it as a career.
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Nippon made an article where they noted how Captain Tsubasa became one of the most likeable fictional characters due to his dream and career in the series which at the same time influenced others.
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Espin Of noted one of the series' most notable features was how Captain Tsubasa's skills allowed him to perform goals while his training with his teammates generated appeal to the viewers.
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THEM Anime Reviews noted that Captain Tsubasa obtained a highly international reputation but found the animation from the 1980s dated in the modern times.
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Similarly, Miho Koishihara referred to these two mangas as responsible for increasing the popularity of their respective sports with the writer noting that Captain Tsubasa focused on realistic growth in comparison to previous works.
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Series on which Captain Tsubasa exerted a great influence was Masaya Tsunamoto's Giant Killing.
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