

Soon after, Mahori, a Brazilian-Japanese student appears. Toshi scored the last and winning goal for Kake-High with the end result 2-3.Īfterwards, the team can't get over Kubo's death and lose to Fujita East before they get to the Nationals. After the goal, Kubo collapsed and died after the game. Kubo took the ball from his own side of the pitch, passed every Kakekita player, and scored the tying goal. Kubo was on defense helping Kenji defend the goal against Hirose's Knuckle Shoot, when he decided to make an effort to tie the game. During the semifinal match against Kakekita, they were down with 2-1 with less than ten minutes left. Tragedy struck Kake-High soccer club when they lost their captain and ace striker Yoshiharu Kubo. In the end, he joins the Kakegawa High School soccer club because he loves soccer and playing in the golden trio. Shiraishi on the other hand quit soccer because he lost his temper and got into a fight that ended up disqualifying their team. It turns out that his father played soccer during his youth and, remembering how much he loved it, decides to let Hiramatsu play soccer but under the condition that he will keep his grades up as well. However, Hiramatsu loves soccer and wants to play so he confronted his father and says that he wants to play soccer with his friends and that he would never understand his love for soccer. Hiramatsu is forced to study by his father so that he would become a respectable adult. Now in high school, his friends do not want or cannot play soccer anymore. When Toshi played in junior high with two of his friends Kenji Shiraishi and Kazuhiro Hiramatsu, they were known as the Kakenishi golden trio. Toshihiko "Toshi" Tanaka joined the same soccer club that his idol, Yoshiharu Kubo plays for at Kakegawa High School.
