In the second round of the 98th Japan High School Football Championship National Competition, the team Peng Academy from Ishikawa Prefecture stubbornly equalized the score in the last minute of regular time while falling behind, and defeated Kyoto Honey, a famous football school from Kyoto 4-3 in the final penalty shootout. After participating in the national competition for the second time, Peng Academy finally won its first victory.
This victory is of great significance to Peng Academy. A few years ago, Peng Academy Football Club almost "destroyed the club" because of insufficient number of people.
Peng Academy is located in Shio City, Ishikawa Prefecture. This small town has a population of less than 60,000. It is a typical aging and low-birth area in Japan. Under this premise, Peng Academy naturally cannot attract high-level players across the country to join. A few years ago, the football club members once had less than 10, and this number is only one step away from the abolition club.
The arrival of a young football coach changed the current situation of Peng Academy. His name is Nobuhiko Akadi.
Nobuhiko Akaichi is a native of Ishikawa Prefecture. He competed with Keiyou Honda when he was a student. After graduating from university and working as a company employee for several years, Nobuhiko Akaichi, who was tired of the workplace, passed the coaching certificate out of his love for football. Despite the opposition of the whole family, he came to Peng Academy. While working as a geography teacher, he also served as the head coach of the football team after school.
The first time training, Nobuhiko Akai was stunned by the level and hardware of the Peng Academy football team: there were only 5 senior high school players in the team, and even if the baseball team called the baseball team with football foundation, the number was only 20, and they couldn't even conduct full-game training. Every game, I have to "borrow people" from the baseball team. The most difficult thing is that there is not even a stadium and can only go to other schools to train.
After experiencing a brief setback, head coach Nobuhiko Akaidi became more determined to lead Peng Academy to become stronger. If the number of people is not enough, he will ask the physical education teacher to collect the number; if there is no venue, he will raise funds everywhere to build the stadium on campus; if the number of teams is not enough, he will look for excellent junior high school students in the county and lobby them to join Peng Academy. After becoming the team's head coach, Akagi Nobuhiko's life is only one thing left - high school football.
Winter went and spring came, and it took only 3 years. As the high school players completed the replacement, Peng Academy changed from a bottom-skinned team to a very powerful team. Peng Academy, which once had a hard time winning the practice competition, had already changed its goal to defeat the county overlord star.
In 2014, two days before the start of the Ishikawa Prefecture Qualifiers of the Japanese High School Football Championship, Nobuhiko Akagi suffered a stroke while watching the video of his opponent's game and was sent to the ICU for rescue. After being rescued, Nobuhiko Akadi's right hand was unable to move for a while, but on the game day, he slipped out of the hospital despite the doctor's dissuasion and went to the field to command the team. In the end, his presence greatly boosted Peng Xueyuan's morale, not only defeating his opponent, but also entered the semi-finals of Ishikawa Prefecture in that year. Faced with the doctor's roar of "You only have one life", Nobuhiko Akadi scratched his head and said, "There aren't students who have the chance to participate in the national competition only once."
Two years have passed. In 2016, under the leadership of Nobuhiko Akagi, Peng Academy met again with his strong enemy Xingqi High School in the final of the county qualifiers.
The game that breaks fate must meet the most classic settings in Japanese hot-blooded comics:
On the other hand, it is a super sports university star located in Kanazawa City, the largest city in Ishikawa Prefecture, which has won the 93rd National Competition of the Japanese High School Football Championship, and has played international players such as Keiyu Honda. They adopt the elite player model, and the team is full of talented young men from the prefecture and all over Japan.
On the other side is Peng Academy, a weak school with a small town of Qiwei, all from the county with mediocre qualifications, never a professional player, and never participated in national competitions.
But no one expected that this weak team, which seemed to be a cannon fodder, eventually defeated the opponent 1-0. Not only did it enter the national competition for the first time, it also blocked Xingzhi's pace of advancing to the national competition for 18 consecutive times.
After the story of this group of unknown teenagers and the head coach who bet on their lives was exposed, the whole of Japan was moved by them. Peng Academy was even named "Weed Legion" by the media.
So what was the result of Peng Academy participating in the national competition for the first time?
They lost 0-4 to Saga Dong, the Saga Prefecture team, in the first game. The Peng Academy players cried in tears in the locker room. How could the miracle of grassroots counterattack happen so easily?
Just like the slam dunk master Xiangbei defeated King Shanwang Industry in the national competition, but lost in the next game, the end of the passionate youth story, of course, it must be accompanied by a regret that recalls a lifetime.
2 years later, at the 98th Japan High School Football Championship National Competition, Nobuhiko Akagi led the weed army back. All their desire for national competitions has turned into motivation to move forward. They not only defeated their old rival Xingzeng in the finals of the prefecture conference again to enter the national competition, but also won their first victory by eliminating Kyoto Sekiri in the national competition.
In the third round of the game ending on January 3, the National Competition Tour of Peng Academy ended with a 0-2 loss to the Tochigi Prefecture team Yapachi Center. Although
was eliminated, these players of Peng Academy have realized their dreams, and every minute of the teenagers are victory.
says that the past 2019 was too difficult, the company was too difficult, and office workers were too difficult, but whenever you see those teenagers in Japan realize their dreams, you will realize that the passion and youth in anime can be really a part of life. Although such happiness does not belong to us, it is also moving and inspiring enough.
You see, even the inconspicuous "weed legion" can dream of "dominate the whole country"!
