Characters / Captain Tsubasa – Supporting Cast

Roberto Hongo

European and Latin-American Dub Name Change: Roberto Sedinho

Voiced by: Hideyuki Tanaka (in Captain Tsubasa and Tatakae Dream Team smartphone game), Hideyuki Hori (in Captain Tsubasa J), Mitsuru Miyamoto (in Road to 2002), Yuko Mita (as a child in Road to 2002), Katsuyuki Konishi (2018 anime); Ricardo Tejedo (Captain Tsubasa and 2018-2023 anime), Armando Coria (Captain Tsubasa J), Gerardo Vásquez (Road to 2002), Gerardo Del Valle (as a child in Road to 2002) [Latin American Spanish dub], Daniel Sánchez (Captain Tsubasa), Eduardo del Hoyo (Road to 2002) [European Spanish dub], Vincent Ropion (European French)

• Adaptation Dye-Job: Roberto normally has brown eyes, but the trailer for the 2018 series gives him blue eyes instead.
• Beard of Sorrow: He was neatly shaved as an active player, and only started growing a beard when he went through his Heroic BSoD.
• Big Brother Mentor: To Tsubasa, and how.
• Break the Cutie: His backstory, especially his childhood, as told by the J and Road to 2002 series, and his eyesight problems, which forced him into retirement.
• Broken Ace: In the backstory, he was this through and through. The reader meets him when he has already gotten a hold of himself, however.
• Career-Ending Injury: The reason why he retired: his eyesight started failing after he got hit to the head during a match and the brain/eyesight damage never healed. That's the exact same injury that plagued Brazil's 1970 World Cup Champion Tostão.
• Drowning My Sorrows: Until he met Tsubasa, he was heavily drinking in order to drown his sorrow of losing his career.
• Interrupted Suicide: In the manga and original series, Roberto threw himself into the sea during an Heroic BSoD caused by the loss of his career, but Tsubasa's father Koudai saved him and helped him get back to his feet. It should be noticed that the Road to 2002 TV series removes his suicidal episode.
• I Owe You My Life: To Koudai for saving him when he tried to kill himself, and to Tsubasa for giving him a new reason to live.
• Missing Mom: The J and Road series dwell a little on this. Both series change the circumstances in which he lost his mom ^note (in J she abandoned him in a convent to work in the capital and died of illness before she could return to him; in 2002 she was a humble factory worker and single mom who died in a terrible work accident), but both are Tear Jerkers.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Very much reminiscent of Zico, whose contributions led to the early rise of popularity of the J-League.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Used this in his first apparition. The Nankatsu kids had to pick up their jaws off the floor upon seeing him play.
• Perma-Stubble: After recovering from his ordeals, he kept the beard.
• Platonic Life-Partners: He and Natsuko
• Self-Made Man: From the favelas to soccer stardom.
• Street Urchin: As a child.
• Team Dad: For the original Nankatsu team, and later to the Brazilian National Team.

Sanae "Anego" Nakazawa

European Dub Name Change: Patty Gatsby

Latin-American Dub Name Change: Haydée Patricia "Patty" Amor

Voiced by: Chika Sakamoto (in Captain Tsubasa), Fujiko Takimoto (in Captain Tsubasa J), Atsuko Enomoto (in Road to 2002), Yuko Minaguchi (Tatakae Dream Team smartphone game), Sayuri Hara (2018-2023 anime); Elsa Covián (Captain Tsubasa), María Fernanda Morales (Captain Tsubasa J), Liliana Barba (Road to 2002), Elizabeth Infante (2018 anime), Annie Rojas (2023 anime) [Latin American Spanish dub], Carmen Cervantes (Captain Tsubasa and Captain Tsubasa J), Marta Sáinz (Captain Tsubasa J) [European Spanish dub]

• Adaptation Dye-Job: She's most often portrayed with dark brown hair, but the 2018 anime gives her a lighter tone, almost red.
• Babies Ever After: She's pregnant as of Rising Sun. The Next Dream preview reveals she's already given birth to her twins.
• Childhood Friend Romance: With Tsubasa. They met when they were 12, hooked up when they were 15, and got married when they were 18-19.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: As a little girl, the Sanae of the first anime series and the manga got very jealous of not only Yayoi but of almost any other girl who may like Tsubasa. (In fact, the Whole Episode Flashback shows that seeing Rika on the TV totally sets off her jealousy, and Natsuko had to take her and Manabu with her to France) She mostly grows out of it as a teenager, however, and as much she gets passive-aggressive.
• Cool Big Sis: To Kumi.
• Cute Sports Club Manager: Of Nankatsu, during the Junior High arc. She's the manga Ur-Example of this trope and most likely the Trope Codifier.
• Demoted to Extra: In the Road to 2002 anime, as it skips through all romantic developments between her and Tsubasa, Sanae's teenage and adult years were drastically changed; as a result, while her personality remains more or less the same as in the original sources, a good part of her Character Development is handwaved and later she isn't following her boyfriend, and later husband, as it never happened in this continuity.
• Expy: Of Aki Yamazaki, the CSCM from the CT pilot story.
• Family Business: The Nakazawa family owns an ice cream parlor. In the Road to 2002 anime, the parlor itself is on the first floor of their house while the second one hosts the Nakazawas's living quarters.
• Fangirl: Not only of Tsubasa, but of the whole team.
• Girliness Upgrade: Sanae ditches a good part of her tomboyish attitude as she grows up, in order to become more feminine and more mature. This process is seen in the Endless Dream one-shot manga, where the Nankatsu boys are shocked to see her in girlier clothes.
• Girl Next Door: The ordinary, cute, but tomboyish girl who is always there to support The Hero. Although she's more aggressive than the typical Nice Girl example.
• Go Through Me: In the first anime, against Hyuuga.
• Happily Married: She and Tsubasa marry at the end of World Youth Cup.
• Head-Turning Beauty: Her beauty was praised more or less frequently in the anime series and the manga.
• Leaning Onthe Fourth Wall: In the first episode of the original TV series's junior high arcs, Sanae is introduced by talking to a bunch of girls that are off-screen, with her back towards the 'camera'. She then turns and directly addresses the viewers, identifying herself as Sanae to show the fans how much she's changed through the time skip.
• Long-Distance Relationship: In the World Youth Cup manga and in the 2002 anime series.
• Love at First Sight: Actually subverted. Sanae was reluctant to accept Tsubasa at first, until she got to witness his skills first-hand; even moreso in the first anime, where she was downright hostile to him since he accidentally hit Manabu with his soccer ball.
• One of the Boys: Especially as a little girl and frequently lampshaded.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: In the original, everyone refers to her as "Anego" ("Big Sis") and the fans only learn her actual name midway through the elementary school arc. Hyuuga and Wakabayashi still call her as such sometimes when they're young adults, but she doesn't like it.
• Patient Childhood Love Interest: To Tsubasa, at first. Then she falls for him for real, and he comes to like her back.
• Platonic Life-Partners: Sanae and Manabu are long-time best friends and pretty much a perfect example of a Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl duo... but they're not romantically involved at all.
• Pom-Pom Girl: A more tomboyish example during the elementary school arcs, because she doesn't use pom-poms (she goes for a big flag instead) nor does she wear a cheerleader outfit at any point. She otherwise fits the trope to a T when cheering for the Nankatsu Elementary team (and for Tsubasa himself), and even though she later drops this role in favor of becoming the team's manager during middle school, she's still shown cheering for Tsubasa and Japan during the World Youth arc.
• Plucky Girl: Girl never ever gives up when she needs or wants something.
• Secret-Keeper: In the original TV series, she becomes an asymmetric one after she accidentally overhears Misugi and Yayoi talking about the first's illness.
• Shorttank: As a little girl and, to a lesser degree, as a teenager.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: When Kanda almost kidnaps her and says Tsubasa won't come to face him for her sake, Sanae immediately tells him it's not true. Right then, Tsubasa shows up.
• The Medic: Pretty efficient nurse. One of the most shippy Tsubasa/Sanae scenes in the original TV series has her and Manabu recalling how some time ago she bandaged Tsubasa's foot under a blooming cherry tree... while, in the present, she is doing exactly the same.
• Team Mom: As the Nankatsu assistant.
• Territorial Smurfette:
  • Downplayed. She showed jealousy when Kumi arrived, but this was mostly because she openly said she joined due to Tsubasa and soon they become friends. Also, she's the one who brought Yukari to the team.
  • Played very straight and for the lulz in the elementary school arc, when Yayoi showed up. It's not helped by Yayoi obliviously revealing her past with Tsubasa and, well, by both of the being little girls back then. (They're hinted to be good friends as teenagers.)
• Tsundere: As a little girl she was the harsh character type, but mellows down as she gets older.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: She grew into this in the manga. The three anime series make her a Type B Tsundere instead.

Erik van Saal

Dutch Manager of FC Barcelona. He is the one who saw Tsubasa's potential and invited him to play for the Catalan giants.

• The Chessmaster: As a football manger, this is a prerequisite. He decided to move Tsubasa to the reserve squad because he cannot use two playmakers in the pitch with Rivaul.
• Expy: of Louis van Gaal, FC Barcelona manager for the 2002-03 season. Really, the only difference from his real-life inspiration is that Van Saal is clearly balding.

Manabu Okazaki

European and Latin-American Dub Name Change: Arthur Foster.^note (Though the Latin-American Spanish dub for Road to 2002 simply calls him by his Japanese name)

Voiced by: Miki Narahashi (Captain Tsubasa); Elsa Covián and Jorge Roig Jr. (Captain Tsubasa), Benjamín Rivera (Captain Tsubasa J), Anna Lobo (Road to 2002), Elizabeth Infante (2018 anime), Héctor Mena (2023 anime) [Latin American Spanish dub], Beatriz Acaso (Captain Tsubasa), Amelia Jara (Captain Tsubasa J), Margarita Ponce (Road to 2002)

• The Benchwarmer: He was a reserve player in Nankatsu's elementary school and middle school teams, due to being their worst player, and it is implied that he has eventually given up on playing soccer.
• Butt-Monkey: As the best friend of a Tsundere, well...
• Platonic Life-Partners: Him and Sanae.
• The Short Guy with Glasses: Specially as a child, since he's not THAT short as a teenager.
• The Strategist: Later in the series.
• Will Not Tell a Lie: Subverted in the original series, where he's shown to be an excellent liar.

Kumi Sugimoto

European Dub Name Change: Susy

Latin-American Dub Name Change: Eva Toscano

Voiced by: Waka Kanda (Captain Tsubasa), Haruka Tomatsu (Tatakae Dream Team smartphone game), Ayaka Furuhara (2018-2023 anime); Ruth Toscano (Captain Tsubasa) and Isabel Martiñón (movies) [Latin American Spanish dub]

• A Day in the Limelight: She has quite the important role towards the end of the Shin manga, when her Love Confession helps trigger Sanae and Tsubasa's Relationship Upgrade.
• Ascended Fanboy: Invoked; she was a Tsubasa fan who enrolled as an assistant specifically to be closer to him.
• Character Development: Joined the team only because she was a Tsubasa fangirl, ended up loving the sport for real and caring for the team boys as her older "siblings". Lampshaded in canon more than once.
• Cute Sports Club Manager: She's one of Sanae's two assistants.
• Demoted to Extra: Despite appearing all through the original series, two of the non serial movies and the Holland Youth special, she has non-speaking cameos in the Shin OAV, and disappears altogether from J and Road to 2002. This includes her A Day in the Limelight episode being written out as well, though the anime series strongly implies that she does realise Sanae is Tsubasa's chosen girl and quietly concedes.
• Genki Girl: Very plucky, energetic and cheerful.
• Girlish Pigtails: Until the World Youth Cup.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: She immediately concedes when it's obvious that Tsubasa has chosen Sanae.
• Patient Childhood Love Interest: To Tsubasa.
• Pink Means Feminine: Often wore pink shirts, and her assistant uniform is pink rather than dark red like Sanae's and Yukari's.
• Plucky Girl: She has ups and downs, but never stays depressed.
• Same Surname Means Related: Averted. She has no known relationship with Takashi Sugimoto from R.J.7 team.
• Shipper on Deck: Being a very Graceful Loser, she starts shipping Tsubasa/Sanae soon after he rejects her.
• Trying Not to Cry: After Tsubasa rejects her affections in the kindest, sweetest possible way.

Yukari Nishimoto

European Dub Name Change: Evelyn

Latin-American Dub Name Change: Anabel

Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro (Tatakae Dream Team smartphone game), Megumi Han (2018-2023 anime), Anabel Méndez (Captain Tsubasa) [Latin American Spanish dub]

• Adaptation Dye-Job: Yukari has brown hair, but in Holland Youth it's shown to be black-blue instead.
• Cool Big Sis: To Sanae and Kumi, as the more mature and levelheaded of the three girls.
• Cooldown Hug: In the anime, when Kumi is depressed and a bit tearful over Sanae and Tsubasa having a quite long Held Gaze moment in public, she tells Kumi to lean on her shoulder and then gives her a hug.
• Cute Sports Club Manager: The second of Sanae's assistants, and the more experienced and closest to Sanae of the two.
• Demoted to Extra: Despite appearing all through the original series and the Holland Youth special, she has non-speaking cameos in the Shin OAV and disappears altogether from J and Road to 2002. As a bonus, she doesn't appear in the pre-Holland Youth movies while Kumi did' show up in two of them.
• Girlish Pigtails: Variation. She has them in the anime series, but has a single Tomboyish Ponytail in the manga. Oddly, she wears her hair loose in one panel of the series's second OP.
• Held Gaze: One of the first (and very subtle) implications that she and Ishizaki had mutual feelings was them looking into each others's eyes and blushing heavily in WYC.
• Hospital Hottie: What she wants to become, according to the manga. In WYC, she has already been accepted in a nursing school.
• Official Couple: With Ishizaki. A preview for the Next Dream arc shows him proposing to her, which she happily accepts.
• Plucky Girl: She is pretty sweet, but has no patience for fools and doesn't stray from her tasks.
• Shipper on Deck: Specially in the anime, where she's given a whole scene in which she tells Sanae to go for Tsubasa before graduation.
• Shipping Torpedo: Downplayed. She doesn't exactly encourage Kumi's crush for obvious reasons, but tends to keep her thoughts to herself aside of snarking a little at her.
• Team Mom: Even more so than Sanae.
• Tsundere: Shows slight signs to Ishizaki, right before their Relationship Upgrade.

Yayoi Aoba

European Dub Name Change: Amy/Tippy (Fr)

Latin-American Dub Name Change: Mary Tanada

Voiced by: Tomiko Suzuki (Captain Tsubasa), Junko Iwao (Captain Tsubasa J), Rina Sato (Tatakae Dream Team smartphone game); Anabel Méndez (Captain Tsubasa), Alma Wilhelme (both Captain Tsubasa J and Road to 2002), Nycolle González (2018 anime) [Latin American Spanish dub]

• Adaptation Dye-Job: She's a redhead in the original series, but has dark brown hair in the Road to 2002 series.
• Childhood Friend Romance: It doesn't work with Tsubasa, but it's close to succeed Misugi.
• Cute Sports Club Manager: Not as much as the other girls, as she hangs around quite a bit with the Musashi Elementary team but apparently stops that in Junior High. Unless the fans count the Road to 2002 series, which removed her friendship with Tsubasa but put much more emphasis on her manager role due to having the Musashi JHS out cut outta the story after their Nankatsu match.
• Has a Type: Both her love interests, Tsubasa and Misugi, are soccer prodigies.
• Innocently Insensitive: She's completely oblivious to Sanae's Clingy Jealous Girl antics, and later in a well-intentioned but very misguided move she tells Tsubasa that Misugi's ill and begs him to let the Musashi team win, not realising the consequences it'd bring to both of them.
• Patient Childhood Love Interest: She's initially this to Tsubasa, until she moves on and (probably) ends up with Misugi.
• Self-Proclaimed Love Interest: According to the Memories chapters, when Tsubasa introduced her to his grandmother, she outright stated that she was his girlfriend, much to his embarrassment.
• Ship Tease: She and Misugi are all but stated to be an Official Couple.
• Team Mom: Tries to be this, doesn't work very well with Misugi but it does like a charm when she helps take care of Hyuuga's siblings when their mom's hospitalized and Hyuuga cannot take a leave.

Yoshiko Fujisawa

European Dub Name Change: Jenny

Latin-American Dub Name Change: Cristina (one original series episode), María Fernanda (other series)

Voiced by: Makiko Ohmoto (Road to 2002), Saori Hayami (Tatakae Dream Team smartphone game), Hekiru Shiina (2018 anime); María Fernanda Morales (Captain Tsubasa), Rocío Prado and Mariana Ortiz (Road to 2002), Alicia Vélez (2018 anime) [Latin American Spanish dub]

• Career Versus Man: A preview for Next Dream shows her rejecting Matsuyama's marriage proposal, since she wants to follow her dream of becoming a flight attendant and help people cope with traveling and leaving their loved ones behind (like she did before with him). Matsuyama however understands, and makes it clear he'll wait for her until she's ready.
• Cute Sports Club Manager: Of the Furano Junior High team.
• Long-Distance Relationship: She and Matsuyama, in the end. Surprisingly, subverted in the manga: she manages to return to Japan after a semester away in the USA.
• Shrinking Violet: Slightly. She's more modest and quiet that super fragile.
• Snow Means Love: One of her and Matsuyama's most shippy scenes happens when they're working on cleaning off the snow in the Furano fields. Matsuyama notices that Yoshiko's hands are injured due to hard work and attempts to warm them up with his own, then they both realize the implications and jerk away while heavily blushing.
• Stepford Smiler: She hides her inner turmoil very well from Matsuyama and the team, only letting her mother and Machiko see how she's unhappy and depressed at the prospect of leaving Japan.
• Team Mom: And pretty good at it.
• Trying Not to Cry: When she's about to leave to the USA.
• Twice Shy: She and Matsuyama.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: Very much so. She was very humble, sweet, hard-working (sometimes to her own detriment, which is not shown as a good thing due to her Stepford Smiler traits) and well-loved by everyone.

Machiko Machida

European Dub Name Change: Grace

Latin-American Dub Name Change: Gisela

Voiced by: Juri Kimura (2018 anime); Gisela Casillas (Captain Tsubasa), Mariana Ortiz (Road to 2002), Cynthia Chong (2018 anime) [Latin American Spanish dub]

• Alliterative Name: In the original, both parts of her name start with "Ma"
• Bespectacled Cutie: A very cute girl, whose specs make her even cuter.
• Cute Sports Club Manager: She's Yoshiko's assistant.
• Plucky Girl: She keeps her poise and her support of her friends no matter what.
• Shipper on Deck: The most open Matsu/Yoshi shipper.
• Team Mom: As the second manager. Yoshiko is more nurturing and mom-lkike, while Machiko is more stern and quick-tempered.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: With Yoshiko, she's the Tomboy.
• Tomboyish Ponytail: Contrasting with Yoshiko's short bob.
• Tsundere: Type B one, as she's sweet and kind until something/someone sets her off.

Maki Akamine

Voiced by: Wakana Yamazaki (J series), Ayane Sakura (Tatakae Dream Team smartphone game); María Fernanda Morales (Captain Tsubasa J) [Latin American Spanish dub]

• Boyish Short Hair: The most openly tomboyish girl of the series, and has a very boyish hairstyle.
• He Is Not My Boyfriend: She denies more vehemently than Hyûga does when teased about this, but Everyone Can See It.
• Indirect Kiss: By sharing with Hyûga a Coca-cola can (his favourite drink) in the World Youth Saga, after he has completed his Training from Hell in Okinawa and is about to go get back his place in the national team.
• Passionate Sports Girl: Wants to have her own career in softball and is very serious about it. And now she's very much in her way to get it.
• Plucky Girl: She has her ups and downs like any teenage girl, but does her best whenever she can.
• The Power of Love: She is an excellent softball player in her own right, but her Power Level in matches increases each time Hyûga cheers her. Conversely, the one time Hyûga didn't come to her match to support her, she lost.
• Tsundere: Type B. She's cute and cheerful and happy, but don't press her buttons.

Munemasa Katagiri

Voiced by: Daisuke Namikawa (2018 anime); Adrián Fogarty (Captain Tsubasa), Armando Coria (Captain Tsubasa J), Jorge Ornelas (Road to 2002) [Latin American Spanish dub], Iván Jara (Captain Tsubasa) [European Spanish dub]

• Big Brother Mentor: To the team as a whole. In the Road to 2002 series he specially shows it by counseling Wakashimazu during his Achilles in His Tent phase and telling him about Shingo's story so he will realize that he shouldn't give up.
• Career-Ending Injury: Lost his left eye in an accident, forcing him into an early retirement.
• The Consigliere: Is the one handling things behind the scenes so he can help the Japanese Team coaches.
• Retired Badass
• The Smart Guy
• Sunglasses at Night: Which cover a large scar on his left eye
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome
• Unexplained Accent: In the original series's Latin-American Spanish dub, he had a rather ridiculous faux-German accent. Thankfully, it was dropped in the dub for Road to 2002.

Tatsuo Mikami

European and Latin-American Dub Name Change: Freddy Marshall

Voiced by: Tonomichi Nishimura (2018-2023 anime); Armando Coria (Captain Tsubasa), Marcos Patiño (Captain Tsubasa J), Salvador Delgado and Luis Alfonso Padilla (Road to 2002), Óscar Gómez (2018-2023 anime) [Latin American Spanish dub]

• Berserk Button: No one should ever abandon his or her teammates in front of Mikami. When Genzo tried it, he got so angry on the team's behalf that he slapped him to the ground.
• Big Brother Mentor: To Genzo, and later he's implied to be his Parental Substitute when he goes to Germany.
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: To Genzo, too.
• My Greatest Failure: He was the goalkeeper of Japan national team that lost 0-3 to South Korea.
• Stern Teacher: He does not take indiscipline lightly.
• Sunglasses at Night: Is he ever seen without his sunglasses?
• Tall, Dark, and Snarky: Though he softens up a little as time passes.
• Team Dad: As the coach for the Japanese team.

Gamo Minato

Voiced by: Yukimasa Kishino (Captain Tsubasa J); Marcos Patiño (Captain Tsubasa J) [Latin American Spanish dub]

• Demoted to Extra: Not only he was introduced last compared to Katagiri and Mikami, but he appears the less compared to them
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He does care for the team and wants them to do his best, but his methods are seriously lacking.
• My Greatest Failure: He was the captain of Japan national team that lost 0-3 to South Korea.
• Perma-Stubble
• Pride Before a Fall
• Stern Teacher
• Tall, Dark, and Snarky
• Team Dad
• Training from Hell: This quote from one of the RJ7 players perfectly sums up his coaching style: "Coach Gamo is again opening to us the gates of his Hell".

Kira Kouzou

European Dub Name Change: Jeff Turner/Fleming

Voiced by: Shinya Fukamatsu (2018 anime); Armando Coria (Captain Tsubasa and Captain Tsubasa J), Carlos Íñigo (Road to 2002), Esteban Desco (2018 anime) [Latin American Spanish dub], [European Spanish dub]

• The Alcoholic: Played in a cartoonish way, rather a dramatical one like Roberto. However, his reasons to drink are not less dramatic.
• Alliterative Name: Kira Kouzou.
• Break the Cutie: The loss of the Japanese team (in which he played) before the British one.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He might look like the town drunk, but he knows a lot about training people to be the best, and he himself was in the past a badass on his own right (being part of the team who won the Bronze medal in the Olympics).
• Drowning My Sorrows: His hard drinking is implied to be due to his personal demons.
• Evil Counterpart: He's not exactly evil, but he and Roberto are both world class players turned into alcoholics who train a manin character each.
• Fallen Hero: He was a Japanese national player, until a defeat to the hands (well, feet) of a violent playing team kicked him out of the stardom and instigated a strong cynism and love for hard playing on him.
• Foil: One to Roberto. Kira's style of training and playing is harsh and violent, as opposed to the good-natured and technical Roberto, and he himself is much more open about his personal bitterness than the Brazilian. Also, while Roberto is broken in a physical sense (due to his injury), Kozo is broken in the spiritual one (due to his defeat to the violent British team).
• Hidden Depths: He is initially introduced as a pathetic drunkard who happens to mentor Hyuga and his team, but it's later revealed his past as a former star and the reason of his fall from grace. Moreover, in Golden-23 he shows that he's a very capable coach when he leads the Japanese team on the road to the Madrid Olympics.
• Perma-Stubble: Revealed to be a Beard of Sorrow.
• Retired Badass: A former national player for Japan.
• Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: His system of belief. He himself was at the receiving end when his fair game was trumpled by the British team's brutal tactics, which made him become convinced that strength and violence are the base of a strong player. By the time he's the National Team coach, however, he has pretty much abandoned this belief.
• Team Dad: For the Meiwa. And in Rising Sun, to the whole JPN Team.
• Training from Hell: He often applies Corporal Punishment to keep Hyuga fom collapsing.
• Unwittinginstigator Of Doom: His well-intentioned but very ill-timed What the Hell, Hero? on Hyuga is what leads him to escape from Toho to train under him so he can recover his fighting spirit, which caused Hyuga and the Toho team serious trouble. He acknowledges his role in the first anime, to the point of writing a letter to Coach Kitazume in which he explains everything and lays the blame on himself rather than Hyuuga, then showing up and going in the Pose of Supplication in front of him and the Toho soccer team staff as an apology.

Koushi Kanda

Voiced by: Yuichi Nakamura (2023 anime); Gerardo Ortega (2023 anime) [Latin American Spanish dub]

• Adapted Out: Doesn't show up in most of the animated series. The 2023 series marks the first time he appears in the franchise's anime.
• Adaptation Expansion: The 2023 anime gives him a longer introduction scene, with Sanae running into him when he's fighting a gang of five by himself. She then notices his bruised knuckles and uses her hankerchief to bandage them, sparking his interest in her.
• Alliterative Name: Koushi Kanda.
• Boisterous Bruiser
• Book Dumb
• Crazy Jealous Guy and Hopeless Suitor: To Sanae, though he doesn't reach Yandere extremes.
• Graceful Loser: Once Tsubasa shows him what he's made of, he immediately concedes.
• Jerkass: Later evolves into a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, and Tsubasa's success inspires him to keep up his boxing game.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Yukari.

Natsuko and Koudai Oozora

Latin-American Dub Name Change: Maggie and Michael Atton

Voiced by Shiho Niiyama (Natsuko) (Captain Tsubasa J) [original Japanese] and Norio Wakamoto (Koudai) (original series); Anabel Méndez (Natsuko) and César Soto (Koudai) (Captain Tsubasa) Rina Sato (Natsuko) (anime 2018); Ruth Toscano (Natsuko) and Paco Mauri (Koudai) (Captain Tsubasa J); Elena Ramírez (Natsuko) and Jorge Santos (Koudai) (Road to 2002), Alejandría De los Santos (Natsuko) and Óscar Rangel (Koudai) (2018 anime) [Latin American Spanish dub]

• Nice Guy: Koudai.
• Parents as People: Koudai works abroad as a ship captain, but does what he can to keep contact.
• Potty Emergency: Inverted: In the Shin manga, Koudai was once in the bathroom when Tsubasa scored a goal.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Tsubasa has Natsuko's features and Koudai's hair/eye/skin color scheme.
• Team Mom: Natsuko.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: Natsuko, with emphasis on maturity.

Daichi

• Adorably Precocious Child: Isn't he a cutie?!
• Cheerful Child
• Meaningful Name: "Daichi" means "Earth"
• Strong Family Resemblance: To his much older brother Tsubasa

Haruko Maruyama

Latin-American Dub Name Change: Ruth (after her VA)

Voiced by: Ruth Toscano (Captain Tsubasa) [Latin American Spanish dub]

• Canon Foreigner: She was created solely for the original anime.
• Cool Teacher: Haruko was the homeroom teacher of Tsubasa and Co., plus a Cool Big Sis to them.
• Tomboy: A grown-up version, judging by her relaxed clothing style and her boyish haircut.

Ishizaki's mother

• Almighty Mom: Ishizaki is terrified of his loud, boisterous mother.
• Expy: She gets one in the kindly yet Hot-Blooded shopkeeper of Road to 2002
• Large Ham
• Plucky Girl: A grown up version
• Tsundere: Non-romantic example. She usually terrifies her son, but if you get in her good graces, she's a real sweetheart.
• Unnamed Parent: Her name is not revealed.

Kaori Matsumoto

Latin-American Dub Name Change: Daisy Matsumoto

Voiced by: Atsuko Tanaka (Road to 2002); Ruth Toscano (Captain Tsubasa), Gisela Casillas (Road to 2002), María Fernanda Morales (2018 anime) [Latin American Spanish dub]

• Graceful Ladies Like Purple: When she's not dressed in white, she favor purple tones.
• The Ojou: Of the Ice Queen type.
• Plucky Girl: Another adult version
• The Smart Girl: Specially as Hyuga's personal manager
• Stylish Sunhats: She wears a large, white sunhat with a large purple ribbon and a small pink rose.

Azumi Hayakawa

Voiced by: Marina Inoue (Tatakae Dream Team smartphone game)

• Bait-and-Switch Credits: She's featured next to Sanae in the Shin anime credits. She never appears in the OAV's themselves.
• Expy: Of Sanae. Since she was both Older and Wiser and more feminine, Azumi was created to bring back a tomboy for the Shin CT part.
• Hot-Blooded
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: In Next Dream, she's shown to have adopted a kitten and asks Misaki to help her take care of it.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Misaki, as their relationship mirrored that of Tsubasa and Sanae but without real romantic undertones. However, Next Dream seems to have moved it to Ship Tease, as the two remain in contact and seem to have grown closer in the interlude.
• Tomboy: Even more than Sanae.

Ichiro Misaki

• The Alcoholic: In the past. Fortunately didn't become an abusive father, but it still wasn't easy for Taro and his mom.
• Parents as People: He loves Taro dearly, but their life hasn't been the easiest and he feels pretty guilty.
• Perma-Stubble

Shirley Marks

• All Love Is Unrequited: For Levin, since she was Karen's best friend and respects how Levin's still in love with her.
• Girlish Pigtails: Subverted, she has them despite being in her late teens.
• Hospital Hottie: A medical student, and she and her older brother work for the Swedish team.

Karen

• Cynicism Catalyst: Was hit by a truck in her way to one of Levin's matches, which causes Levin's fall into despair and ruthlessness.
• Friend to All Living Things: At some point, she stops Levin from accidentally stepping on an ant's nest. He recalls it while "shooting" Akai, and realizes how gone he's been.
• Gory Discretion Shot: Sorta. When the players explain her death to Dr. Mikhael, there's an image of Karen's legs and lower body as she's hit by the truck that killed her as well as her blood being spilled, but nothing else.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Had long blond hair and was the sweetest girl ever.
• Kill the Cutie
• Look Both Ways: Karen failed to do this since she was in a hurry to go to Levin's match, and got hit by a truck for her trouble.
• Spared by the Adaptation: In the Rise of New Champions videogame, a scene shows Levin answering a phone call from her, implying she avoided her tragic fate.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Her final wish was for Levin to become the world's best player. Poor girl had no idea how far her beloved would go to fulfill that promise.
• Walking Spoiler: And how.

Rika Oosawa

Voiced by: Naoko Matsui (Captain Tsubasa, TV series and movies); Anabel Méndez (Captain Tsubasa, TV series) and Isabel Martiñón (movies) [Latin American Spanish dub]

• Canon Foreigner: Created only for the original anime series and the movies.
• Expy: She's a somewhat less Hot-Blooded Azumi
• Nice Girl
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Inverted. She shows up in a cute dress at the beginning, but the rest of the time she wears rather tomboyish clothes.
• Shorttank
• Tsundere: A small Type B to Pierre, since she playfully snarks at him when he flirts with her.

Yoshiko Yamaoka, aka Yoshiko-chan

• Break the Cutie: Almost. The poor little girl took her half-brother's accident hard, and even more so since he got hurt to save her, but Misaki managed to calm her down.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Remember the I'm Misaki Tarou mini-story? And the little girl who appeared at the end? Yup, that's her. And she's the one who, by her own initiative, contacted Tarou and begged him to meet up with their mother.
• The Cutie

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