3 YEARS AGO... KATAGIRI AND THE JFA HAD STRONG HOPES FOR THE JAPANESE GOLDEN AGE... THEY SENT THE WINNER OF THE MIDDLE SOCCER TOURNAMENT PLAY AGAINST JR. YOUTH OVERSEA CLUBS...
BECAUSE OF THE CATASTROPHIC RESULTS, IN ORDER NOT TO DISCOURAGE THE COUNTRY AND KEEP ON INSPIRING JAPAN, KATAGIRI MANIPULATED THE PRESS, KEEPING THE RESULTS SECRETS, AND MAKING MISUGI A HERO...
THE PLAYER THAT HAD THE BIGGEST IMPACT ON MISUGI WAS PLAYING FOR BREMEN JR YOUTH... BREMEN'S COMPUTER, FRANZ SCHESTER!
HAMBURG ENTRUSTED THE BALL TO THEIR PLAYMAKER METZER, HOWEVER, HE'S MARKED BY SCHESTER! HE USUALLY CAN'T DEVELOP HIS USUAL PLAYSTYLE LIKE THIS...
AH, IT WAS EVEN FASTER THAN USUAL! JUST ONE CONTACT PLAY WAS ENOUGH FOR SCHESTER TO SNATCH THE BALL AWAY FROM METZER, EVEN THOUGH HIS BALL KEEP IS USUALLY QUITE GOOD!
AFTER STEALING THE BALL FROM METZER, SCHESTER IS ONCE AGAIN SENDING A HIGH, SOFT, PINPOINT PASS FORWARD...
... INSIDE THE PENALTY AREA, FOR MARGUS, WHO'S...!! AH, BUT WAKABAYASHI CAME OUT OF HIS GOAL TO INTERCEPT THIS PASS BEFORE IT COULD REACH MARGUS AND HIS NUCLEAR WARHEAD!
WAKABAYASHI IS OF COURSE AWARE OF MARGUS TERRIFIC HEADER, AND WON'T LET HIM USE IT IN SUCH A DANGEROUS POSITION, MOREOVER, WAKABAYASHI IS IMMEDIATELY SENDING THE BALL...
... TOWARDS METZER! WAKABAYASHI WAS AWARE THAT A QUICK COUNTER WOULDN'T GIVE ENOUGH TIME TO SCHESTER TO GO MARK METZER AGAIN! AND METZER IS...
... IMMEDIATELY KICKING A HIGH BALL TOWARDS BREMEN YOUTH'S GOAL!
... AT THE SAME TIME, KAPPELMAN IS SLIPPING BY BREMEN'S DEFENDERS LIKE A SNAKE!
LIKE A WELL-OILED MACHINE... THIS IS HAMBURG YOUTH WINNING PATTERN, THAT ALLOWED THEM TO SCORE 19 GOALS! METZER'S "TOP SPIN PASS", GOING ABOVE THE DEFENSE LINE, THEN GOING FASTER AFTER BOUNCING, IN PERFECT COORDINATION WITH KAPPELMAN, SLIPPING PAST THE DEFENDERS, THEN JUMPING...
IN ORDER TO USE HIS SPECIAL SHOT, THE "SIDEWINDER SHOT"! A JUMPING VOLLEY, WITH A HUGE HORIZONTAL LEG SWING, LIKE A BASEBALL SIDEARM PITCH...
... RESULTING IN A SHOT WITH A HUGE SIDE CURVE, A SHOT FLANKING AND BITING THE GOAL NET LIKE A SNAKE!
THAT'S IT! AS EXPECTED, METZER'S TOP SPIN PASS, COMBINED WITH KAPPELMAN'S...
AH, BUT NO! JUST LIKE WAKABAYASHI EARLIER, BREMEN'S KEEPER CAME OUT OF HIS GOAL AND PUNCHES THE BALL AWAY BEFORE KAPPELMAN CAN USE HIS SIDEWINDER SHOT!
AND BREMEN YOUTH MANAGES TO TAKE THE LOOSE BALL BEFORE IT CAN CROSS THE SIDELINE! THE PATTERN THAT ALLOWED HAMBURG YOUTH TO SCORE SO MANY GOALS IN THE U-19 BUNDESLIGA... IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE PREDICTABLE! MORE AND MORE TEAMS MANAGED TO DEFEND AGAINST IT...
AND WITH METZER WHO JUST USED HIS TOP SPIN PASS, IT'S SCHESTER'S TURN TO BE UNMARKED! BREMEN YOUTH IS IMMEDIATELY ENTRUSTING THE BALL TO THEIR PLAYMAKER...