History Manga / CaptainTsubasa

* LatinoIsBrown:
** Played especially straight with Argentina players despite the fact that the majority of Argentines [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentines_of_European_descent are descendants of European colonists]].
** Leo and Salinas from Brazil, on the other hand, are lighter-skinned and light-haired.

** This is finally averted in the ''Rise of New Champions'' game, when the American soccer team finally appears in a physical form, but like the Tecmo games and the non-serial films, their squad members are considered [[CanonForeigners canon foreigners]] and being completely characters from previous media.

** This is finally averted in both the ''Rising Sun'' manga and in the ''Rise of New Champions'' game, when the American soccer team finally appears in a physical form, through none of their members are either from the Tecmo games nor from the non-serial films.

** This is finally averted in the ''Rise of New Champions'' game, when the American soccer team finally appears in a physical form, through none of their members are either from the Tecmo games nor from the non-serial films.

*** The 2020 game ''Rise of New Champions'' continues the recent streak of keeping the Japanese titles and names in all international releases

* LocalizedNameInANonLocalizedSetting: European and Latin-American dubs westernize the names of all the characters but don't hide the fact that they are Japanese. It's a series about Association Football and later the main characters will play for Japan's national team, and this is never changed in the dubs.

* AnimalBattleAura: The Tiger Shot, Falcon Shot, Eagle Shot, and even Banana Shot, which has monkeys dancing around in the series's games.

* IllBoy: Jun Misugi is a male example, who's prone to {{Hollywood Heart Attack}}s, up until the World Youth saga.

* OnlySixFaces: Several character designs are ''very'', very similar. Seriously, sometimes Misugi and Matsuyama look pretty much like twin brothers.

** A very ''weird'' case: The American soccer team is rarely mentioned in the manga ans it's always defeated off-screen by other teams (Becoming in some kind of RunningGag there). On the other hand, in the first anime adaptation or at least in one of the non-serial films, the American team is portrayed as a Type 2: A bunch of cheating pricks who don't know much about soccer, but they know how to play dirty, especially against the Japanese team, and the Japanese team wipes the floor with them, not to mention they are the only opponents they're NOT portrayed in sympathetic light in any way. The Creator/{{Tecmo}} games goes the other way instead: The Americans are Type 1 and are portrayed more positively, albeit sometimes as a bunch of weirdos, especially their captain Mikhael, who considers ''Ishizaki'' (from all the people of the Japanese team and NOT Tsubasa, Misaki, Hyuga or anyone barely competent from the Japanese side) his ''biggest rival''.

[[caption-width-right:319: My foot ball is my best friend!]]

Other important characters include his teammates: Ryo Ishizaki, sensitive Taro Misaki and goalkeeper Ace Genzo Wakabayashi. Also, there are his rivals: most notably, Kojiro Hyuga (whose playing style is the opposite of Tsubasa, relaying more on power than on technique), Jun Misugi (a talented, [[IllBoy ill]] strategist) and Hikaru Matsuyama. Later, foreign players like Karl Heinz Schneider are introduced during the FIFA World Youth cup. Important support characters are Roberto (Tsubasa's mentor and coach) and Sanae Nakazawa (a female friend of Tsubasa, who has also quite the crush on him and later manages to date him).

* DubNameChange: ''Everywhere''.

* MundaneMadeAwesome: The series ''breathes and eats'' this trope, with a side of YouFailPhysicsForever.

* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: Narrowly averted with Yoshiko and Matsuyama. [[spoiler: She didn't want to either distract him from the Furano v/s Nankatsu match and cry in front of him, so she left without a word when the match was barely over... but Matsuyama learnt abot it and raced against the clock to catch her before her flight took off. He succeeded, so cue the CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.]]

* IKnowMaddenKombat: Inverted with Wakashimazu Ken, the Karate Keeper. He knows his karate ''real'' well ''and'' adapts some karate techniques to soccer. Heck, there was a subplot with him not wanting to be HeirToTheDojo and being given a year of probatory by his father to prove himself. Also, [[spoiler: Nitta also takes up karate to improve his skills in the Road to 2002 series]].

* RememberTheNewGuy: Aoi Shingo.

* SelfMadeMan: Espadas and his TrueCompanions, Santana, Roberto, Pepe, Natureza... yeah, this happens a lot among the Latin American players.

* InvincibleHero: Tsubasa doesn't really lose very much. The two or three times he loses, he recovers almost immediately. Worst of all, this is intentional on Yoichi Takahashi's part as he didn't want to write about the hero being defeated.

* ComicBookTime: Either this, AnachronismStew, or AmbiguousTimePeriod. As explained under SocietyMarchesOn, Japan never qualified into World Cup ''was'' a plot point up until ''World Youth'' arc. The next arc, ''Road to 2002'', starts with stating that World Youth was set in the year of "19xx" and it's pretty much stated that this arc is set between 1998 and 2002 to the point that they show the France national team becoming the winner of 1998 World Cup, that Japan qualified into World Cup for the first time in 1998, and that several characters stating the next World Cup in 2002 will be set in Japan and South Korea. Yet in the next arc, ''Golden 23'', which is supposedly immediate sequel to ''Road 2002'', the timeline appears to be set in 2010s despite the stories are direct continuation of ''Road to 2002''.

** Judging by the way they are depicted in the manga, it's heavily implied that Mexico, of all teams, could be a stand-in for the U.S. for some readers and for a myriad of reasons: Both Mexico and the States are members of the CONCACAF and neighboring countries, it's captain, Ricardo Espadas, is being depicted as a racist jerk toward the Japanese, a common stereotype normally associated with the Americans,[[note]]Even if there's a lots of foreign players in the manga with similar traits, and Espadas' racism comes with the fact he hails from a very poor family, compared with Japan, a much richer country.[[/note]], most of the Mexican players outside Espadas and few extras are depicted as either blond or light-skinned compared with other Latin American players, another stereotype associated with the States and the fact Mexicans are depicted in a more negative light compared with other soccer teams, up to [[spoiler:suffering a crushing defeat at the hands of the Japanese team at 8-0 in a friendly match in their own home turf, and in the Azteca Stadium, no less, something that rarely happens with other international teams that the Japanese had previously defeated before]]. Also, keep in mind the American team only appear in either the non-serial films and the videogames, but not in the manga, and it's very likely Yoichi Takahashi, the author, cannot use the likeness of the American players from those works for legal reasons.

* EagleLand: A very ''weird'' case: The American soccer team is rarely mentioned in the manga ans it's always defeated off-screen by other teams (Becoming in some kind of RunningGag there). On the other hand, in the first anime adaptation or at least in one of the non-serial films, the American team is portrayed as a Type 2: A bunch of cheating pricks who don't know much about soccer, but they know how to play dirty, especially against the Japanese team, and the Japanese team wipes the floor with them, not to mention they are the only opponents they're NOT portrayed in sympathetic light in any way. The Creator/{{Tecmo}} games goes the other way instead: The Americans are Type 1 and are portrayed more positively, albeit sometimes as a bunch of weirdos, especially their captain Mikhael, who considers ''Ishizaki'' (from all the people of the Japanese team and NOT Tsubasa, Misaki, Hyuga or anyone barely competent from the Japanese side) his ''biggest rival''.

** In the same way, Hyuga and Wakashimazu went to play to Mexico for Club America in Mexico City, rather than Turin in Italy (Hyuga) and the J-League (Wakashimazu).

** Taro Misaki is the only character whose country when he went to play (France) is unchanged, but not the team he actually plays: In the videogames, he plays for many French teams, while in the manga, he plays at first for Paris Saint-Germaine and later he went on loan to Jubilo Iwata in the J-League.

* ShownTheirWork: The ''Wish for Peace'' manga special, featuring a Japan vs. Greece friendly match set in Hiroshima, not only has information about the UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki and the Olympics, but about the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Civil_War Greek Civil War]] that took place after WorldWarII. [[spoiler: This is because the Greek coach's great-grandpa died there.]]