![]() However, it was the Japanese women's football team who would see Japan win its first World Cup title in 2011, when Japan won the FIFA Women's World Cup. Moreover, it wasn't all one-way – Nakata was to influence anime too in the 2008-2011 anime series Inazuma Eleven (in Arabic, Abtaal al-Kura, or "heroes of the ball"), one of the characters is called Hidetoshi Nakata. Nakata wasn't the only one inspired: Captain Tsubasa influenced Nakata's whole generation, inspiring countless youngsters to get into football. ![]() "Spanish footballer Alejandro Garnacho who plays with premier league club Manchester United has a tattoo of Captain Tsubasa and his friends on his leg" I read it and got inspired to play football." In an interview in 2005 with Talk Asia on CNN, after signing with the Bolton Wanderers, he said: "When I first started playing football, baseball was a more popular sport, but there was a manga cartoon about football that was really well known at that time. He stated that Captain Tsubasa was the reason he chose to play football as a boy instead of baseball. He played in the World Cup with the Japanese team in 1998, 20. The anime inspired Japan, which went from having no professional league, to forming one in 1992, and ten years later Japan co-hosted the World Cup.įormer Japanese professional footballer Hidetoshi Nakata played with AS Roma, and has been ranked one of the best Asian players of all time. Spanish footballer Andres Iniesta kicks a football against a Captain Tsubasa backdrop, as Yoichi Takahashi, author of the famous anime, looks on during a ceremony in Tokyo in March 2019 It was also translated into multiple languages, including Arabic and Kurdish. In 2001, Captain Tsubasa was ranked 49 in a list of the top 100 anime series ever made. Circulation worldwide was around 80 million in 2018. "It was not until Captain Tsubasa appeared on the scene, first as manga comic in 1981, then as an anime series in 1983 – that football began seriously attracting the younger generation"Īt the time, Japan had no notable sporting credentials, apart from having won a bronze medal in the 1968 Olympic Games, and didn't even have a professional football league – this only formed in 1992.īy 2008, over 70 million copies of the Captain Tsubasa manga cartoon series had been sold in Japan alone. ![]() Abtaal al-Malaa'ib did not noticeably boost the game's popularity, and it was not until Captain Tsubasa appeared on the scene, first as manga comic in 1981, then as an anime series in 1983 – that football began seriously attracting the younger generation. Captain Tsubasa is far from being the first football anime series – this was Akakichi no Irebun, released in 1970, which in Arabic was called Abtaal al-Malaa'ib (translating to "heroes of the pitch").Īt that time, baseball was a much more popular sport in Japan, and football was not played widely.
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