Blue Lock

the story begins with japan's elimination from the 2018 fifa world cup, which prompts the japanese football union to start a programme scouting high school players who will begin training in preparation for the 2022 cup. isagi youichi, a forward, receives an invitation to this programme soon after his team loses the chance to go to nationals because he passed to his less-skilled teammate —who missed— without trying to make the game-changing goal by himself. their coach will be ego jinpachi, who intends to “destroy japanese loser football” by introducing a radical new training regimen: isolate 300 young strikers in a prison-like institution called “blue lock” and put them through rigorous training aimed at creating “the world's greatest egotist striker.”