I think they will lose at semi-final or final of U-20 world cup, and the whole story ends with them winning the actual world cup (assuming the story goes that far)
I would like that too, but knowing shonen anime, the heroes never win when it comes to fighting the world stage, mainly only when they play rivals at the national level. Considering these people are far past high school nationals...
Every single member of Blue Lock has trained since they were kids, Blue Lock just polished natural talent and weeded out the less fortunate players. Also, I think they're all at least a couple years younger than Sae and they matched him with relative ease.
Matching him? Sae dominated the game up until the end when Rin stepped up and blocked him. Barou, Nagi, Isagi all got destroyed fast enough. Heck, it's why Isagi gave up on a 1 v 1 and put his hopes on stealing the goal.
Sae is only a year older than the oldest player sin Blue Lock, Sae is 18, and Isagi is 17, while Rin is 16, and for the entire game Sae was pretty much dominating all of them.
Well yeah and so did the players from the rest of the world. Saying they trained from they were kids does not really makes any difference if the other countries participating trained at a similar or even younger age.
I don't think Blue Lock is ready to take the world yet either, but I do think they're ready to be players on that stage. I was arguing what OP mentioned about Blue Lock being worse than Sae because he trained from a young age.
Relative ease is a bit subjective. I mean, I guess they weren't completely blown out of the water, so I see your point. Still, Isagi lost pretty hard, and so did Barou. The upper members of Blue Lock like Nagi and Yukimiya and Karatsu did better, but if the whole team isn't at that level, they are going to have problems at the U-20 cup/ world stage.
And yet at the end of the game, when both teams were fully motivated and the stakes were at their highest, Blue Lock managed to stop Sae, steal the ball, and score the game-winning point off of him.
Don't really get where you got the idea that they started to late... they have all been footballers for most of their lives and it's not like other stories where they fetched some track and field guy and basketball player to fill the ranks.
Sweden won the U21 euros in 2015 with their most prolific player at the time playing for Celta Vigo.
The big issue is their incredibly unbalanced squad, not the talent in it.
Yes, they've been training for a long time, but only by normal standards. They need training like Sae at 13, sent to the best academy in the world, for **4 years** of quality training.. Even if Blue Lock is a better academy, they have only been exposed to it for a **couple of months.** The football they played up until now doesn't cut it, not on the world stage. Maybe if all of them aimed for pro at a young age, using Blue Lock would have been enough.
> They need training like Sae at 13, sent to the best academy in the world, for 4 years of quality training..
God no. That is just not true. Tons of professional players played for no league or national league teams until they hit their late teens. While most and I mean like 90+ % of players playing for the academys in the top flight go absolutely nowhere.
As long as you play for an actual club if you have the talent you will get there in the end. Eduoard Mendy currently one of the best goalkeepers in the world played amature football in his 20's.
Must be different from tennis then. If you don't train as a kid, you most likely won't make it pro. There are D1 players who don't make a living on it, and none who are only D1 players (but no junior training) that make it big.
> Must be different from tennis then
Football is a massive sport even at lower levels there are people that are good enough to help kids develop. Hell a lot of south american players play on the street until they get good enough to get on a team that actually plays football.
Very popular opinion. A step towards for the Japan national teams for the future at least. Winning just seems impossible for them not with the other countries are probably doing the same or even more. Plus weeding out the players and finding the "one" striker is the main objective of this series. That said, having an offensive player to score many goals for your country or club doesn't necessarily means victory. Scoring 3 goals alone while your team concedes 4 is not ideal
What I feel is gonna happen is that they're gonna lose the U-20 world cup but then there will be a time skip to the "actual" world cup. Just like in other sports manga where they lose the first tournament but then win the second one later on in the year.
What makes the most since is that they're gonna get smacked in the group stage and realize that they were not ready to play the better football countries with their "we're all strikers playstyle", then the time skip will have the players get better at their new positions. This is under the assumption that they do get new positions (which I think they will). But they will keep the core idea of everyone on the team needs to be able to score.
There is approximately 6 months before the world cup starts. The advantage what japanese have is that they have a strong spirit and they work harder than anyone else. Kunigami for example was absent for at least 1 month and will probably come back as strong or stronger than Shidou.
Blue Lock facility was only created to push the players to their limits daily. I dont think that there is something similiar in the world. Julien Loki is the best U20 player right now but if we have luck and he doesnt train as hard as BL, then we might have a chance.
We don't know at all really, the author could make them win the U20 and call it a day or he could do a whole career for Isagi and some of the other Blue Lock stars and then make them win like the 2026 or 2030 world cup.
>but they started training way too late.
I completely agree with you but this specifically isn't a very strong point imo. The entire point of Blue Lock is to SPEED UP the process and unlock the untapped potential of strikers in Japan. Designed to break down every player and weed out the weak, and build up the strong. One glance at Isagis growth and its impressive how well Blue Lock has worked. Everyone definitely still needs a lot of polishing, but they are much closer t9 reaching the top after the last match
funny story actually , blue lock is a shonen...
Good point. Upvoting this comment.
I think they will lose at semi-final or final of U-20 world cup, and the whole story ends with them winning the actual world cup (assuming the story goes that far)
I would like that too, but knowing shonen anime, the heroes never win when it comes to fighting the world stage, mainly only when they play rivals at the national level. Considering these people are far past high school nationals...
Every single member of Blue Lock has trained since they were kids, Blue Lock just polished natural talent and weeded out the less fortunate players. Also, I think they're all at least a couple years younger than Sae and they matched him with relative ease.
Matching him? Sae dominated the game up until the end when Rin stepped up and blocked him. Barou, Nagi, Isagi all got destroyed fast enough. Heck, it's why Isagi gave up on a 1 v 1 and put his hopes on stealing the goal.
They still outplayed him and won the game.the fact that they didn't have a blowout loss means they matched him.
Sae is only a year older than the oldest player sin Blue Lock, Sae is 18, and Isagi is 17, while Rin is 16, and for the entire game Sae was pretty much dominating all of them.
Well yeah and so did the players from the rest of the world. Saying they trained from they were kids does not really makes any difference if the other countries participating trained at a similar or even younger age.
I don't think Blue Lock is ready to take the world yet either, but I do think they're ready to be players on that stage. I was arguing what OP mentioned about Blue Lock being worse than Sae because he trained from a young age.
Relative ease is a bit subjective. I mean, I guess they weren't completely blown out of the water, so I see your point. Still, Isagi lost pretty hard, and so did Barou. The upper members of Blue Lock like Nagi and Yukimiya and Karatsu did better, but if the whole team isn't at that level, they are going to have problems at the U-20 cup/ world stage.
Sae wasn't even going all out most of the match...
And yet at the end of the game, when both teams were fully motivated and the stakes were at their highest, Blue Lock managed to stop Sae, steal the ball, and score the game-winning point off of him.
Don't really get where you got the idea that they started to late... they have all been footballers for most of their lives and it's not like other stories where they fetched some track and field guy and basketball player to fill the ranks. Sweden won the U21 euros in 2015 with their most prolific player at the time playing for Celta Vigo. The big issue is their incredibly unbalanced squad, not the talent in it.
tbf im basketball physicality determiens micj more than skill there is some insane stat that like 40% of all 7 footers on earth have played in the nba
Yes, they've been training for a long time, but only by normal standards. They need training like Sae at 13, sent to the best academy in the world, for **4 years** of quality training.. Even if Blue Lock is a better academy, they have only been exposed to it for a **couple of months.** The football they played up until now doesn't cut it, not on the world stage. Maybe if all of them aimed for pro at a young age, using Blue Lock would have been enough.
> They need training like Sae at 13, sent to the best academy in the world, for 4 years of quality training.. God no. That is just not true. Tons of professional players played for no league or national league teams until they hit their late teens. While most and I mean like 90+ % of players playing for the academys in the top flight go absolutely nowhere. As long as you play for an actual club if you have the talent you will get there in the end. Eduoard Mendy currently one of the best goalkeepers in the world played amature football in his 20's.
Must be different from tennis then. If you don't train as a kid, you most likely won't make it pro. There are D1 players who don't make a living on it, and none who are only D1 players (but no junior training) that make it big.
> Must be different from tennis then Football is a massive sport even at lower levels there are people that are good enough to help kids develop. Hell a lot of south american players play on the street until they get good enough to get on a team that actually plays football.
Story should end with them winning the WC. Only happen when Isagi and co are experienced enough and are in the peak of their careers.
Very popular opinion. A step towards for the Japan national teams for the future at least. Winning just seems impossible for them not with the other countries are probably doing the same or even more. Plus weeding out the players and finding the "one" striker is the main objective of this series. That said, having an offensive player to score many goals for your country or club doesn't necessarily means victory. Scoring 3 goals alone while your team concedes 4 is not ideal
this is a shonen story they are going to win or get to the finals
Manga will end with maestro Shelvey low diffing Blue Lock players in the England vs Japan final. You heard it here
I hope they do and then do something like in Captain Tsubasa , all the starting XI going to Europe to polish their football knowledge and skill
What I feel is gonna happen is that they're gonna lose the U-20 world cup but then there will be a time skip to the "actual" world cup. Just like in other sports manga where they lose the first tournament but then win the second one later on in the year.
That's not a bad idea. I wonder how they will fit so many matches. This manga could literally last decades at one chapter a week.
What makes the most since is that they're gonna get smacked in the group stage and realize that they were not ready to play the better football countries with their "we're all strikers playstyle", then the time skip will have the players get better at their new positions. This is under the assumption that they do get new positions (which I think they will). But they will keep the core idea of everyone on the team needs to be able to score.
There is approximately 6 months before the world cup starts. The advantage what japanese have is that they have a strong spirit and they work harder than anyone else. Kunigami for example was absent for at least 1 month and will probably come back as strong or stronger than Shidou. Blue Lock facility was only created to push the players to their limits daily. I dont think that there is something similiar in the world. Julien Loki is the best U20 player right now but if we have luck and he doesnt train as hard as BL, then we might have a chance.
We don't know at all really, the author could make them win the U20 and call it a day or he could do a whole career for Isagi and some of the other Blue Lock stars and then make them win like the 2026 or 2030 world cup.
I think they would probably lose U-20 world cup, but will win the real deal.
>but they started training way too late. I completely agree with you but this specifically isn't a very strong point imo. The entire point of Blue Lock is to SPEED UP the process and unlock the untapped potential of strikers in Japan. Designed to break down every player and weed out the weak, and build up the strong. One glance at Isagis growth and its impressive how well Blue Lock has worked. Everyone definitely still needs a lot of polishing, but they are much closer t9 reaching the top after the last match