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** Victoria, meanwhile, spends the majority of Seasons 2 and 3 trying to either keep the Blues out of the World Cup (during Season 2) or prevent them from advancing in it (during Season 3) by any means necessary; her motive being revenge against the team for turning her away due to her reckless playing style, and against her former best friend Eloise, for transferring schools on her when they were younger and for supporting the Blues over her during her failed attempt to impress them. The lengths she goes to ruin them even makes Ben look like a saint. However, when Nicolas Anelka warns her that her her reckless arrogance and win-at-all-costs attitude will only leave her completely friendless and absolutely disliked or even hated, she silently starts to question her motivations and behavior, and stops actively trying to sabotage the Blues. Her redemption comes full-circle in the final two episodes of Season 3 when, after learning that her secret of how she got on the Dolphins is about to be exposed, she ends up meeting Tag's long-lost father Pablo. After learning about his life and his struggles against the Argentinian dictatorship (which landed him in prison for years and separated him from his wife and son, the former of whom later died after leaving the latter in France), she comes to realizes that her various schemes and tricks to destroy the Blues have made her essentially no different than the dictatorship Pablo had fought against all his life, and for the first time feels ashamed and remorseful for everything she's ever done. She decides to put things right by exposing the Dolphins as fakes (they are actually the older siblings of the real team, who stole their spot in the World Cup to have a better chance at winning) to Fede; the Dolphins are disqualified (though Fede announces that they voluntarily withdrew due to "personal reason"), and Victoria admits to blackmailing her way on their team to participate in the World Cup and withdraws herself from the competition. She also helps Tag and Pablo reconnect with each other and admits that the latter helped her realize that courage, integrity, and loyalty are more important than winning. This softens the Blues' views of her somewhat, and most of all, she is finally able to reconcile with Eloise like she had wanted. She then continues her redemption by making amends with Lil' Dragon (whom she had antagonized during one of her sabotage schemes) and training him and his friends in street football. This later proves vital when, just before the World Cup final, the Blues hit a roster crisis and lose three members, with Tag and Tek leaving (the former to be with his father who is called back to Argentina, and the latter after he is recruited to London's pro-football club) and Gabriel getting sidelined with a leg injury, leaving them severely short-handed, and all potential replacements are unavailable. When Victoria hears of the crisis, she offers a solution, albeit not her own participation (as she admits that she doesn't deserve to play in the final after all her past misdeeds), but rather that of Lil' Dragon and his friends, with them becoming the next generation of the Blues. While most of the team is still hesitant to trust her, they agree to take on her idea and she is last seen watching the old and new Blues playing in the final match.

** Victoria, meanwhile, spends the majority of Seasons 2 and 3 trying to stymie the Blues' playing record to either keep them out of the World Cup (during Season 2) or prevent them from advancing in it (during Season 3); her motive being revenge against the team for turning her away due to her reckless playing style, and against her former best friend Eloise, for transferring schools on her when they were younger and for supporting the Blues over her during her failed attempt to impress them.

* ParentalAbandonment: Averted. [[spoiler: Tag didn't know he had a family until, thanks to Victoria, he is reunited with Pablo.]]

* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: [[HeroicSacrifice Pablo sacrificed himself]] so he could get arrested instead of his then-pregnant wife who left Argentina for France. Back then, Argentina's political system was a dictatorship and Pablo wanted to do something about it. He didn't want his newborn son (Who later turned out to be Tag) to be born in Argentina where he could get killed.

* DevilInPlainSight: Tag was like this when he was a little kid. In his first appearance, Jeremy is viewed as one especially by Tag who gets picky with choosing substitute players. In the eyes of the the Riffler-tachi, Victoria is the one who needs to be watch over.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Eduardo, who once got sidelined for joyriding in a stolen car and jeopardizing the Street Football League in Season 1 (since it was still an underground-esque league). The fact that [[TheAllegedCar it was a police car]] made it even funnier.

* InsultBackfire: Just before the Bleus play against the Jamaican team, Nelson the DJ switches his record to the funeral theme, mocking them. He gets his when Jeremy starts singing it to him when he scores.

* JerkassBall: The Blues pick it up against Gabriel during Episode 4, because he proclaimed himself captain without telling them. Thing is, he only did it because the captain needed to be present for a meeting between the team captains (and their team would be disqualified otherwise), and when he went to tell Tag, he found him crying about his DisappearedDad and didn't want to bother him, so he went instead. Tag gets mad when he finds out, and promptly turns the rest of the team against him. The Bleus start shunning Gabriel, and even play badly just to spite him. While Tag's attitude is understandable, if still inexcusable, due to his pride, the twins just refuse to believe Gab's side of the story, and while Eloise admittedly didn't get to hear it, she still turns too quickly against the team member that had been most welcoming towards her from the beginning.

* ParentalSubstitute: Tag and Eloïse often have to play mom and dad to the [=TekNo=] brothers and Lil' Dragon. It helps that Lil Dragon often looks up to Tag since his father is nowhere to be seen. The twins, on the other hand, were the first friends that Tag had. Since Eloïse is like a mother to them, they seem close to her too.

** In Season 1, Ben sees Tag and his team as unworthy to join the Street Football League and was jealous that he had such close relationships with them and that most of them had stable home lives compared to his own. Tony Lopez, meanwhile, hated the Blues ever since he got replaced with Eloïse after abandoning them during their first official match against the Sharks (the league at the time was underground and disliked by most of the public due to the unintentional property damage and peace disturbances caused by the games and several shopkeepers had notified the police, which Tony wanted nothing to do with). Ben recruits Tony to his team and, after having his attempt to take Shark's position as Commissioner of the Street Football League foiled and his team, the Phantoms, knocked out of contention by the Blues, the two spend most of the rest of the season trying to get revenge on the team:

*** They come closest in their last sabotage attempt when Tony videotaped Ben (who was disguised as Tag) beating Ali of the Desert Scorpions to a pulp during a match between the Blues and the Scorpions. While the plan does work at first, getting Tag permanently banned from the World Cup and nearly causing him to leave town for good, it ultimately backfires after Gabriel and the twins discover the setup and Tony's involvement via watching the video multiple times and force him and Ben to fess up to all of their schemes. Even though everyone suggests that Ben and Tony should be banned from the World Cup and the League for life themselves for their actions, Tag decides to let them off the hook, primarily due to sympathizing with Ben for his poor background. Following this, the two drop their grudge against Tag and the Blues and Ben settles his differences with the former to the point that he is later recruited to play for them on two separate occasions (once later in Season 1 and then again in Season 3), while Tony becomes civil with them again and even loans his old goalie gloves to Gabriel when the latter has to fill in for Eloise as goalkeeper on occasion.

** Fast forward to Season 3, Victoria has blackmailed the New Zealand team to persuade her to become their captain much to Oscar's dismay. She continues her campaign against the Blues to ruin their World Cup contention:

*** Once the new rules were introduced, Victoria had no problem locking the Blue in their bedrooms in the middle of the night and threatening Li'l Dragon (who had accidentally witnessed her doing this) with physical harm if he snitched on her and subsequently staying close to him to ensure he stayed quiet to the point that he sat next to her at lunchtime out of fear. The Blues subsequently lost the their match to the Massai by withdrawal due to being over an hour late for the match, which was a rule the Massai had suggested be included, ruining their chances of making the semi-finals, and the other teams of the World Cup started to turn against the Massai, accusing them of cheating to enforce the new rule they'd suggested and get an easy win. Thankfully, Li'l Dragon, after seeing the ensuing chaos, overcame his fear and told the truth, clearing up the situation and allowing the match between the Blues and Massai to take place.

*** In her last attempt to sabotage the Blues when they are about to discover how she got on the Dolphins, Victoria ends up meeting Tag's father. After learning the truth behind their family history, including how Tag's father spent his life rebelling against the Peruvian government's lies and oppression and ending up in jail for it, she, touched by this and realizing how her actions against the Blues and others has made her just as bad as the people Tag's father has fought against (and also taking into account prior advice given to her by Nicolas Anelka that her reckless arrogance and win-at-all-costs attitude will continue leaving her completely friendless and utterly disliked), arranges for Tag to be reunited with his father, and exposes and calls out the "Dolphins" (who are actually the older siblings of the actual players) for their cheating, getting them disqualified and sacrificing her place in the World Cup as well.

** But than again, Tag has always came to Gab for advice,and has thanked Samira for befriending the Japanese team making Eloise jealous.

*** In her last attempt to sabotage the Blues when they are about to discover how she got on the Dolphins, Victoria ends up meeting Tag's father. After learning the truth behind their family history, she, touched by their history arranges for Tag to be reunited with his father, and exposes and calls out the "Dolphins" (who are actually the older siblings of the actual players) for their cheating, getting them disqualified.

** The Massai were shunned one time during Season 3 when they mistook the Blues for being over an hour late for an important match: Victoria had trapped them in their cabins during the previous night, and Li'l Dragon, who was staying with them as a guest, accidentally witnessed what happened while returning from the bathroom, but didn't tell anyone about it until much later because Victoria caught him watching her, threatened him with physical harm if he told anyone and kept a close eye on him to ensure he didn't snitch. The Blues subsequently lost by withdrawal, damaging their chances of making the semi-finals, and the rest of the teams began to believe that the Massai, who had come up with the one-hour late rule, of trapping the Blues in their cabins to enforce said rule and get an easy win, and deemed them as cheaters. Fortunately, Li'l Dragon eventually overcame his fear and ensured the truth got out, clearing the Massai's names.

*** Once the new rules were introduced, Victoria had no problem locking the Blue in their bedrooms in the middle of the night and threatening Li'l Dragon (who had accidentally witnessed her doing this) with physical harm if he snitched on her and subsequently staying close to him to ensure he stayed quiet to the point that he sat next to her at lunchtime out of fear. The Blues subsequently lost the their match to the Massai by withdrawal due to being over an hour late for the match, which a rule the Massai had suggested be included, badly hurting their chances of making the semi-finals, and the other teams of the World Cup started to turn against the Massai, accusing them of cheating to enforce the new rule they'd suggested and get an easy win. Thankfully, Li'l Dragon, after seeing the ensuing chaos, overcame his fear and told the truth, clearing up the situation and allowing the match between the Blues and Massai to take place.
*** In another attempt, Victoria manipulates events to get Eloise alone, then forces Fara and Oscar to kidnap and tie her up, and lock her away to weaken the Blues prior to a match, then makes the Blues think she deliberately ditched them in order to shake their focus up during the match. It nearly works to the point where even after Tag, Samira, and Jeremy discover Victoria's foul play, the Blues nearly opt to forfeit the match until they figure out what happened to her. Thankfully, Oscar has an attack of conscience and frees her in time for her to rejoin the team and mount a comeback.
*** When the Malaysian Tigers are found to have all boys in their ranks (their sole female player was injured prior the World Cup and her brother dressed up as her to avoid them being disqualified), Fede only allows them to stay in the Cup if they can find a replacement female, and Victoria, seeing an opportunity, is the only one to step up to fill the slot. However, in their match against the Blues, she utilizes various moves methods that range from unethical to outright illegal to beat her rivals, which the Tigers do not agree with. When they call her out and threaten to kick her off the team, however, she reminds them that if they do so and no other female steps up to replace them, they'll have no choice but to withdraw from the World Cup, e.g. they're stuck with her. Fortunately, before they can make the choice to forfeit to preserve their honor and dignity, Samira has her friend Manuela volunteer to help; the Tigers at once accept and send Victoria packing.

* JerkJock: Tag sometimes does this. Jeremy did this once as he stopped his team from talking to Diego since Tag would befriend them before the big game. Ben was a jerk throughout Season 1, even going so far as to get Tag permanently disqualified by framing him for brutally attacking a rival player during a match. Takeshi is also a jerk to Samira and Atsuko.
** Tag and his gang were shunned one time during Season 3 when Wema mistook them for being late for an important match: Victoria had trapped them in their cabins during the previous night, and Lil' Dragon, who was staying with them as a guest, accidentally witnessed what happened while returning from the bathroom, but didn't tell anyone about it until much later because Victoria caught him watching her and threatened to have her team beat him up if he said a word. Sadly, Tag didn't call Wema out for the accusation, instead leaving that up to Gabriel who felt partially responsible (as Jeremy had figured that one out).
* LaserGuidedKarma: Tag was pissed off when Mochi made his move on Eloïse. Just as the photographers were about to picture Mochi getting the lip action, Oscar shoved him out the way but he was kissing Eloise instead.

*** Once the new rules were introduced, Victoria had no problem locking the Blue in their bedrooms in the middle of the night and threatening Li'l Dragon (who accidentally witnessed her doing this) with being beat up if he snitched on her. The Blues received a warning from Fede, but unfortunately, Wema convinced half of the participating teams that the Blues were unreliable, entitled, and not to be trusted, to the point where even Li'l Dragon sat next to Victoria at lunchtime out of fear, and the teams of the World Cup found themselves divided between the teams who distrusted the Blues and the teams who stood by them. Thankfully, Li'l Dragon overcame his fear and told the truth, clearing the Blues' names.

*** In another attempt, Victoria forces Fara and Oscar to kidnap and tie her up to weaken the Blues prior to a match, but Samira and Jeremy find out and free her.
*** When the Malaysian Tigers are found to have all boys in their ranks (their sole female player was injured prior the World Cup and her brother dressed up as her to avoid them being disqualified), Fede only allows them to stay in the Cup if they can find a replacement female, and Victoria, seeing an opportunity, is the only one to step up to fill the slot. However, in their match against the Blues, she uses various methods that range from unethical to outright illegal to beat her rivals, which the Tigers do not agree with. When they call her out and threaten to kick her off the team, however, she reminds them that if they do so and no other female steps up to replace them, they'll have no choice but to withdraw from the World Cup, e.g. they're stuck with her. Fortunately, before they can make the choice to forfeit to preserve their honor and dignity, Samira has her friend Manuela volunteer to help; the Tigers at once accept and send Victoria packing.

*** After she learns of the Blues' history with her Season 1 counterpart Ben (who visits the ''Melville''), Victoria decides to use this against them after the TekNo twins are temporarily called back to the Olympic team, and Tag tries to recruit Ben to fill in for them. She arranges for Tag to be injured, thus leaving the Blues short-handed and with no other choice but to Ben to fill in for him. As she anticipated, Gabriel and Eloise have a hard time trusting him, and Jeremy and Samira, despite only meeting him for the first time, are weary of him after learning of his history. Sure enough, during the game, after Ben accidentally messes up a play early on, the rest of the Blues' immediately lose whatever trust they had in him, and start refusing to follow his plays or pass him the ball, and accusing him of sabotage, causing them to fall behind. Even worse, before leaving the game, Victoria ups the anté by starting a false rumor about the Riffers badmouthing Ben, which nearly causes Ben to quit over inability to handle all the negativity or play for a team that doesn't trust him. Thankfully, Tag comes off the bench despite his injury so that way Ben will have at least one teammate with faith in him, and manages to play well even with his injury, and the Blues come back to win in the end.

* Additionally, Jeremy, the only player of the original Blues still in Port Marie, is still around, but has since moved on to become captain of new team FC Golmetti. Nonetheless, he still supports the new Blues and mentors them as they try to qualify for the World Cup. However, Jeremy begins to become disillusioned with FC Golmetti after he finds that the manager tries to rig a match in the team's favor. After the manager does so again despite Jeremy's warnings and his previous promise to not do it again, and manages to convince the rest of the team that winning is all that matters, Jeremy quits FC Golmetti out of disgust, and returns to the Blues permanently, serving as both their coach, and an extra player for the rest of the season.

* AloofBigBrother: Subverted. Tek and No have four younger siblings whilst Jeremy has one. In one episode, Jeremy spends the entire episode abusing and shunning his younger half-brother whilst in another episode, Tek dyed his hair blond and distances himself from No until the end, thus hinting that he could be the aloof brother.

* BadassFamily: The Rifflers. The head of the family is the man. His wife and daughter have reputations of their own. [[StacysMom His wife]] owns a villa in Brazil whilst [[BigManOnCampus their daughter]] has appeared in a magazine and [[UnwantedHarem has a fanbase which her boyfriend strongly disapproves of.]]

* BerserkButton: The Rifflers each have a berserk button:

** On rare occasions, Tag gets this. After he scores an [[HoistByHisOwnPetard own goal for Argentina]], Tag gives up even when [[DeadpanSnarker Diego]] thanks him for the victory([[HilariousInHindsight Eleven episodes later, Tag would find out that he's from Argentina]]. [[SarcasmMode Thank you, Pablo]].) Because of the own goal, the Rifflers stop believing in Tag.

** And Atsuko, who had 3 speaking lines just before the episode where the Rifflers play against the Otakus. And the episode was called "The Secret Of Atsuko".

* CosmicPlaything: Everyone of the Rifflers enjoy to use Eloise as their personal plaything (even though she was Tag's).

** The Rifflers chant out what appears to be an anthem. They did say "Only The best!"

* JerkassBall: The Bleus pick it up against Gabriel during Episode 4, because he proclaimed himself captain without telling them. Thing is, he only did it because the captain needed to be present for a meeting between the team captains (and their team would be disqualified otherwise), and when he went to tell Tag, he found him crying about his DisappearedDad and didn't want to bother him, so he went instead. Tag gets mad when he finds out, and promptly turns the rest of the team against him. The Bleus start shunning Gabriel, and even play badly just to spite him. While Tag's attitude is understandable, if still inexcusable, due to his pride, the twins just refuse to believe Gab's side of the story, and while Eloise admittedly didn't get to hear it, she still turns too quickly against the team member that had been most welcoming towards her from the beginning.

** Eloïse's surname, Riffler is a mechanical term, while the team's name, the Rifflers, means that the whole ensemble are talented in a different form of mechanic (Gabriel, who's a computer genius, the twins' nickname is a play on words for Techno).

* OneSteveLimit: Averted with two characters called Ali (One plays for the Scorpions whilst the other plays for the Suns. Two other characters are called Samira (one of them is a member of the Rifflers while the other also plays for the Scorpions).

* RagTagBunchofMisfits: Despite Tag's abrasive personality, Jeremy's troubled backstory and Eloïse's introverted lifestyle, the Rifflers would do anything for each other.

** With the sole exception of spoiler:Tag, the Rifflers do have RedOniBlueOni traits. Tek and Jeremy are the RedOni ensemble due to their compulsive personality and emotional mood swings. On the other hand, Samira, No, Gabriel and Eloïse are the BlueOni ensemble.
* ReplacementGoldfish: The Rifflers have a habit of using this trope if one of their teammates is absent.

* SomebodyDoesntLoveRaymond: Everyone of the Rifflers have at least somebody that hates their guts so much, cue the sabotage attempts.
** In Season 1, Ben sees Tag and his team as unworthy to join the Street Football League and was jealous that he had such close relationships with them and that most of them had stable home lives compared to his own. Tony Lopez, meanwhile, hated the Rifflers ever since he got replaced with Eloïse after abandoning them during their first official match against the Sharks (the league at the time was underground and disliked by most of the public due to the unintentional property damage and peace disturbances caused by the games and several shopkeepers had notified the police, which Tony wanted nothing to do with). Ben recruits Tony to his team and, after having his attempt to take Shark's position as Commissioner of the Street Football League foiled and his team, the Phantoms, knocked out of contention by the Rifflers, the two spend most of the rest of the season trying to get revenge on the team:

*** Trapping several players from the Bronx Devils team in a shipping container after luring them out on a date, and then convincing their captain to have them substitute for the missing players in their game against the Rifflers.

*** They come closest in their last sabotage attempt when Tony videotaped Ben (who was disguised as Tag) beating Ali of the Desert Scorpions to a pulp during a match between the Rifflers and the Scorpions. While the plan does work at first, getting Tag permanently banned from the World Cup and nearly causing him to leave town for good, it ultimately backfires after Gabriel and the twins discover the setup and Tony's involvement via watching the video multiple times and force him and Ben to fess up to all of their schemes. Even though everyone suggests that Ben and Tony should be banned from the World Cup and the League for life themselves for their actions, Tag decides to let them off the hook, primarily due to sympathizing with Ben for his poor background. Following this, the two drop their grudge against Tag and the Rifflers and Ben settles his differences with the former to the point that he is later recruited to play for them on two separate occasions (once later in Season 1 and then again in Season 3), while Tony becomes civil with them again and even loans his old goalie gloves to Gabriel when the latter has to fill in for Eloise as goalkeeper on occasion.
** Victoria has held a grudge against Eloise from back in elementary school. From what Eloise had told Tag, Victoria's father owned the elementary school and she was trying to live up to his standards. On the other hand, Eloise was popular with students and teachers alike and she was praised with good grades whilst Victoria wasn't in either category and Eloise was her only friend. When Eloise decided to switch to public school due to wanting to get away from the pressure, Victoria felt betrayed since Eloise had promised her she would never leave her; this perceived betrayal was later amplified in their reunion in Season 2, when Victoria tries to join the Rifflers to reconnect with Eloise, but is turned away by Tag due to her brutal and selfish playing style, and Eloise sides with him over her. Since then, Victoria holds a grudge against Eloise and the Rifflers to the point of creating her own team, the Black Devils, who exploit the loopholes of street football unwritten rules to clobber them in their first game against them. Throughout the season, Victoria makes multiple evil plans to sabotage the Rifflers in one way or another:
*** She hires one of her friends to run over Eloise with a bike, which they narrowly miss, and steal her phone to cut off Eloise's contact with them before an important match in order to take her place and prove that she should be part of the Rifflers. However, her selfish playing style only proves more of a hinderance than an advantage, thus cementing Tag's rejection of her.
*** She arranges for Jeremy to reunite with his younger half-brother Ben, knowing that he wouldn't be pleased to see him (mainly due to Jeremy being jealous that Ben has gotten to spend more time with their dad than him), and then steals footage of him abusing Ben and tries to give it to the press in order to ruin Jeremy's reputation to the point that the Rifflers and the League would have to cut ties with him to save face. Fortunately, the Rifflers and Shark discover the scheme are able to steal and destroy the tape just in time.
*** She has some of her friends break Jeremy's leg during a concert, then convinces a weak team to fake injuries in their game against the Rifflers and replace them with her teammates.
*** She becomes angry and jealous when she and the Black Devils are chastised by the citizens of Maryport for their ruthless playing during a game, which causes some property damage and endangers several people's safety, including that of a baby; she becomes even more enraged when Eloîse is praised for saving said baby while accidentally interfering with the game and is publicly scolded and embarrassed by her, and schemes to get revenge by having her father organize a charity game between the Rifflers and the Black Devils in order to humiliate her. When the Rifflers bring Tek and No back to utilize the Black Devils substitution strategy, she tries to circle around it at the game by framing Eloise for theft by planting some of the donation money in her bag, temporarily getting her arrested for theft. Tag also leaves with Eloîse's parents to support her, thus leaving the Rifflers unable to utilize the substitution strategy. Fortunately, some of the people who praised Eloise for saving the baby the previous day speak up for her, and clear her name, allowing her and Tag to return and play the Black Devils to a tie.
*** After seeing some overzealous Riffler fans acting out both during games and in general, she and her right-hand man Alex frame the fans for attacking rival players, nearly getting the Rifflers disqualified from contention in the World Cup. Fortunately, the Rifflers discover this and catch the two vandalizing Shark's office in another frame-up attempt and take pictures and video of them, forcing them to admit to their deeds and clean up the mess.
*** In the Season 2 finale, with the final qualification match of the 2nd Street Football World Cup between the Rifflers and the Black Devils coming up, Victoria and her father decide to use the Riffler Institute against the team; he has a school inspector friend from the board of education come to the school and evaluate Jeremy's progress. As planned, the tyrannical inspector asks rigged questions that Jeremy cannot possibly answer and deems him as a thug despite how much he has changed and improved since coming to the institute. When Miss Adelaide, Tag, and Gabriel defend him to the point of outright disrespecting the inspector, he additionally deems Miss Adelaide unfit to be headmistress, suspends her from her position and takes over as temporary headmaster. He then unjustly transfers Jeremy to a juvenile correctional institution, and forces Tag and Gabriel to do endless chores and refuses to allow them to leave the school grounds as punishment for their disrespect, putting the Rifflers' prospects in serious jeopardy. Fortunately, Tag and Gabriel work together with Chronos, the Sharks, and the rest of the Riffler students to frame the inspector as an incompetent, negligent, and even ''drunken'' headmaster, getting him arrested and fired, and allowing Miss Adelaide to retake her position and reverse Jeremy's transfer. In the qualification match the next day, after the Rifflers take the lead and Eloise blocks one of her scoring attempts, Victoria (out of frustration and spite) then kicks the ball directly into Eloise's chest so hard that it sends her flying back into a tree. Cue Tag, who rushes to his girl's side and immediately calls Victoria out for this, and Fede immediately ejects her from the game for her brutal conduct, causing her to run off in humiliation. Her right hand man, Alex explains to Fede that he'll take over and if the Rifflers win, the Black Devils will disband, which ends up happening in the end.
** Fast forward to Season 3, Victoria has blackmailed the New Zealand team to persuade her to become their captain much to Oscar's dismay. She continues her campaign against the Rifflers to ruin their World Cup contention:
*** During breakfast in the first episode, she taunts Eloise after she spills orange juice on her pants, and later causes most of the Rifflers to get sick by spiking their drinks with an emetic, and this contributes to the Rifflers end up losing to Dolphins in their first match after Eloise scores a last-second goal too late.
*** After she learns of the Rifflers' history with her Season 1 counterpart Ben (who visits the ''Melville''), Victoria decides to use this against them after the TekNo twins are temporarily called back to the Olympic team, and Tag tries to recruit Ben to fill in for them. She arranges for Tag to be injured, thus leaving the Rifflers short-handed and with no other choice but to Ben to fill in for him. As she anticipated, Gabriel and Eloise have a hard time trusting him, and Jeremy and Samira, despite only meeting him for the first time, are weary of him after learning of his history. Sure enough, during the game, after Ben accidentally messes up a play early on, the rest of the Rifflers' immediately lose whatever trust they had in him, and start refusing to follow his plays or pass him the ball, and accusing him of sabotage, causing them to fall behind. Even worse, before leaving the game, Victoria ups the anté by starting a false rumor about the Riffers badmouthing Ben, which nearly causes Ben to quit over inability to handle all the negativity or play for a team that doesn't trust him. Thankfully, Tag comes off the bench despite his injury so that way Ben will have at least one teammate with faith in him, and manages to play well even with his injury, and the Rifflers come back to win in the end.
*** Once the new rules were introduced, Victoria had no problem locking the Rifflers in their bedrooms in the middle of the night and threatening Lil Dragon (who accidentally witnessed her doing this) with being beat up if he snitched on her. The Rifflers received a warning from Fede, but unfortunately, Wema convinced half of the participating teams that the Rifflers were unreliable, entitled, and not to be trusted, to the point where even Li'l Dragon sat next to Victoria at lunchtime out of fear, and the cup found themselves divided between the teams who distrusted the Rifflers and the teams who stood by them. Thankfully, Li'l Dragon overcame his fear and told the truth, clearing the Rifflers' name.
*** In another attempt, Victoria forces Fara and Oscar to kidnap and tie her up to weaken the Rifflers prior to a match, but Samira and Jeremy find out and free her.
*** When the Malaysian Tigers are found to have all boys in their ranks (their sole female player was injured prior the World Cup and her brother dressed up as her to avoid them being disqualified), Fede only allows them to stay in the Cup if they can find a replacement female, and Victoria, seeing an opportunity, is the only one to step up to fill the slot. However, in their match against the Rifflers, she uses various methods that range from unethical to outright illegal to beat her rivals, which the Tigers do not agree with. When they call her out and threaten to kick her off the team, however, she reminds them that if they do so and no other female steps up to replace them, they'll have no choice but to withdraw from the World Cup, e.g. they're stuck with her. Fortunately, before they can make the choice to forfeit to preserve their honor and dignity, Samira has her friend Manuela volunteer to help; the Tigers at once accept and send Victoria packing.
*** When Victoria sees how popular Eloise has become, especially with the boys in town, and how uncomfortable, she decides to use it to her advantage in another sabotage attempt: she lies to pop magazine Urban Star that Eloise is seeing someone else, spreading rumors that she and Tag's relationship has hit a snag, and causing fans and paparazzi to follow her wherever she goes, to the point where the Rifflers can't even have a match without them disturbing it. Fortunately, the Rifflers discover the scheme and turn it on her by making it appear that Victoria is dating one her teammates, causing her to become the victim of the same harassment she had subjected Eloise to.
*** In her last attempt to sabotage the Rifflers when they are about to discover how she got on the Dolphins, Victoria ends up meeting Tag's father. After learning the truth behind their family history, she, touched by their history arranges for Tag to be reunited with his father, and exposes and calls out the "Dolphins" (who are actually the older siblings of the actual players) for their cheating, getting them disqualified.

* SurroundedByIdiots: When things get out of hand, Tag likes to refer to his own gang as idiots. For example, Tag saw the Canadian team trying to rig the game against the Japanese, but was shocked to find out that Akira didn't know about it. Incensed by this, Tag tries to convince his team that the Canadians were not to be trusted, but due to Tag recently being down in the dumps over having cost the Rifflers a recent game by accidentally scoring on his own goal, they don't believe him, thinking that he's desperately trying to make up for this. Sadly for him, his sleuth-like activities draw the ire of the Canadian team when they realize he's on to them, leading them to successfully campaign against him to discredit him and get him sidelined for their game against his team, and once the Rifflers find out that Tag was telling the truth all along,[[OhCrap they feel guilty]]. Unfortunately, [[KarmaHoudini Tag doesn't call his own team out]] because he knows that [[DotingParent they'll feel his wrath even more]].

* TurnOutLikeHisFather: Tag turned out like Pablo in terms of [[BiShonen looks]] and [[LikeFatherLikeSon charisma]]. Even Victoria noticed this before the Rifflers.

*** In the Season 2 finale, with the final qualification match of the 2nd Street Football World Cup between the Rifflers and the Black Devils coming up, Victoria and her father decide to use the Riffler Institute against the team; he has a school inspector friend come to the school and evaluate Jeremy's progress. As planned, the tyrannical inspector asks rigged questions that Jeremy cannot possibly answer and deems him as a thug despite how much he has changed and improved since coming to the institute. When Miss Adelaide, Tag, and Gabriel defend him to the point of outright disrespecting the inspector, he additionally deems Miss Adelaide unfit to be headmistress and ousts her from her position. He then takes over as headmaster and uses said power to unjustly expel Jeremy and send him to reform school, and forces Tag and Gabriel to do endless chores and refuses to allow them to leave the school grounds, putting the Rifflers' prospects in serious jeopardy. Fortunately, Tag and Gabriel work together with Chronos, the Sharks, and the rest of the Riffler students to frame the inspector as an incompetent, negligent, and even ''drunken'' headmaster, getting him arrested and fired, and allowing Miss Adelaide to retake her position and reverse Jeremy's expulsion. In the qualification match the next day, after the Rifflers take the lead and Eloise blocks one of her scoring attempts, Victoria (out of frustration and spite) then kicks the ball directly into Eloise's chest so hard that it sends her flying back into a tree. Cue Tag, who rushes to his girl's side and immediately calls Victoria out for this, and Fede immediately ejects her from the game for her brutal conduct, causing her to run off in humiliation. Her right hand man, Alex explains to Fede that he'll take over and if the Rifflers win, the Black Devils will disband, which ends up happening in the end.

*** In the Season 2 finale, with the final qualification match of the 2nd Street Football World Cup between the Rifflers and the Black Devils coming up, Victoria and her father decide to use the Riffler Institute against the team; he has a school inspector friend come to the school and evaluate Jeremy's presence. As planned, the tyrannical inspector deems Jeremy as a thug despite how much he has changed and improved since coming to the institute. When Miss Adelaide, Tag, and Gabriel defend him to the point of outright disrespecting the inspector, he angrily deems Miss Adelaide unfit to be headmistress and ousts her from her position. He then takes over as headmaster and uses said power to unjustly expel Jeremy and send him to reform school, and forces Tag and Gabriel to do endless chores and refuses to allow them to leave the school grounds, putting the Rifflers' prospects in serious jeopardy. Fortunately, Tag and Gabriel work together with Chronos, the Sharks, and the rest of the Riffler students to frame the inspector as an incompetent, negligent, and even ''drunken'' headmaster, getting him arrested and fired, and allowing Miss Adelaide to retake her position and reverse Jeremy's expulsion. In the qualification match the next day, after the Rifflers take the lead and Eloise blocks one of her scoring attempts, Victoria (out of frustration and spite) then kicks the ball directly into Eloise's chest so hard that it sends her flying back into a tree. Cue Tag, who rushes to his girl's side and immediately calls Victoria out for this, and Fede immediately ejects her from the game for her brutal conduct, causing her to run off in humiliation. Her right hand man, Alex explains to Fede that he'll take over and if the Rifflers win, the Black Devils will disband, which ends up happening in the end.

* TeamMom: Eloise and Samira are like this to the Tek No brothers. The fact that they're dating two of the [[TeamDad Team Dad]]s is a bonus.

*** At a charity game between the Rifflers and the Black Devils organized by her father, she frames Eloise for theft by planting some of charity money in her bag, temporarily getting her arrested for theft.

** Victoria has held a grudge against Eloise from back in elementary school. From what Eloise had told Tag, Victoria's father owned the elementary school and she was trying to live up to his standards. On the other hand, Eloise was popular with students and teachers alike and she was praised with good grades whilst Victoria wasn't in either category and Eloise was her only friend. When Eloise decided to switch to public school due to wanting to get away from the pressure, Victoria felt betrayed since Eloise had promised her she would never leave her; this perceived betrayal was later amplified in their reunion in Season 2, when Victoria tries to join the Rifflers to reconnect with Eloise, but is turned away by Tag due to her brutal playing style, and Eloise sides with him over her. Since then, Victoria holds a grudge against Eloise and the Rifflers to the point of creating her own team, the Black Devils, who exploit the loopholes of street football unwritten rules to clobber them in their first game against them. Throughout the season, Victoria makes multiple evil plans to sabotage the Rifflers in one way or another:
*** She hires one of her friends to run over Eloise with a bike, which they narrowly miss.
*** She arranges for Jeremy to reunite with his younger half-brother Ben, knowing that he wouldn't be pleased to see him (mainly due to Jeremy being jealous that Ben has gotten to spend more time with their dad than him), and then steals footage of him abusing Ben and tries to give it to the press in order to ruin Jeremy's reputation to the point that the Rifflers and the League would have to cut ties with him to save face.

* TheTeam:
*** Tag, Jeremy and Gabriel are TheHero, TheLancer and TheSmartGuy by default whilst Eloise, Samira, and the Tek No bros have a tendancy to switch to TheBigGuy.
** In the season 3 finale where [[spoiler: Tag, Tek and Gabriel don't play in the finals (Tek leaves after the semi-final after being recruited to a professional team in London, Tag leaves for Argentina with his long-lost father the night before, and Gabriel is injured the same day and is unable to play per doctor's orders)]]:
--->TheHero: Eloise (Tag's girlfriend who is the de facto captain).
--->TheLancer: Samira (Eloise's best friend and also the 2nd in command) and Lil Dragon.
--->TheBigGuy: Jeremy ([[TeamDad He assures]] Li'l Dragon that everything will be okay).
--->TheSmartGuy: Nordine
--->TheChick: [[Victoria]]

* BareYourMidriff: Samira and EloÏse. It's all part of their [[UnlimitedWardrobe unlimited wardrobe]]. Considering this show has so many characters every season, some of the female team members apply as well.

* JerkJock: Tag sometimes does this. Jeremy did this once as he stopped his team from talking to Diego since Tag would befriend them before the big game. Ben was a jerk throughout Season 1, even going so far to get Tag permanently disqualified by framing him for brutally attacking a rival player during a match. Takeshi is also a jerk to Samira and Atsuko.

** In Season 1, Ben sees Tag and his team as unworthy to join the Street Football League and was jealous that he had such close relationships with them and that most of them had stable home lives compared to his own. Tony Lopez, meanwhile, hated the Rifflers ever since he got replaced with Eloïse after abandoning them during their first official match against the Sharks (the league at the time was underground and disliked by most of the public due to the unintentional property damage and peace disturbances caused by the games and several shopkeepers had notified the police, which Tony wanted nothing to do with). A, Ben recruits Tony to his team and the two spend most of the rest of the season trying to get revenge on the Rifflers:
*** Framing them for causing a scaffolding to collapse on a car during a match (which got the innocent cousin of a player from the opposing team wrongfully arrested and the player's family temporarily evicted from their home).

*** They come closest in their last sabotage attempt when Tony videotaped Ben (who was disguised as Tag) beating Ali to a pulp during a match between the Rifflers and the Scorpions. While the plan does work at first, getting Tag permanently banned from the World Cup and nearly causing him to leave town for good, it ultimately backfires after Gabriel and the twins discover the setup and Tony's involvement via watching the video multiple times and force him to fess up to all of his and Ben's schemes. Even though everyone suggests that Ben and Tony should be banned from the World Cup and the League for life for their actions, Tag decides to let them off the hook, primarily due to sympathizing with Ben for his poor background. Following this, the two drop their grudge against Tag and the Rifflers and Ben settles his differences with the former to the point that he is later recruited to play for them on two separate occasions (once later in Season 1 and then again in Season 3), while Tony becomes civil with them again and even loans his old goalie gloves to Gabriel when the latter has to fill in for Eloise as goalkeeper on occasion.

*** In the Season 2 finale, with the final qualification match of the 2nd Street Football World Cup between the Rifflers and the Black Devils coming up, Victoria and her father decide to use the Riffler Institute against the team; he has a school inspector friend come to the school and evaluate Jeremy's presence. As planned, the tyrannical inspector deems Jeremy as a thug despite how much he has changed and improved since coming to the institute. When Miss Adelaide, Tag, and Gabriel defend him to the point of outright disrespecting the inspector, he angrily deems Miss Adelaide unfit to be headmistress and ousts her from her position. He then takes over as headmaster and uses said power to unjustly expel Jeremy and send him to reform school, and forces Tag and Gabriel to do endless chores and refuses to allow them to leave the school grounds, putting the Rifflers' prospects in serious jeopardy. Fortunately, Tag and Gabriel work together with Chronos, the Sharks, and the rest of the Riffler students to frame the inspector as an incompetent, negligent, and even ''drunken'' headmaster, getting him arrested and fired, and allowing Miss Adelaide to retake her position and reverse Jeremy's expulsion. In the qualification match the next day, after the Rifflers take the lead and Eloise blocks one of her scoring attempts, Victoria (out of frustration and spite) then kicks the ball directly into Eloise's chest so hard that it sends her flying back into a tree. Cue Tag, who rushes to his girl's side and immediately calls Victoria out for this, and Fede immediately ejects her from the game for her brutal conduct causing her to run off in humiliation. Her right hand man, Alex explains to Fede that he'll take over and if the Rifflers win, the Black Devils will disband, which ends up happening in the end.

* JerkJock: Tag sometimes does this. Jeremy did this once as he stopped his team from talking to Diego since Tag would befriend them before the big game. Ben was a jerk throughout Season 1, even going so far to get Tag disqualified by framing him for brutally attacking a rival player during. Takeshi is also a jerk to Samira and Atsuko.
** Tag and his gang were shunned one time during Season 3 when Wema mistook them for being late for an important match: Victoria had trapped them in their cabins during the previous night, and Lil Dragon, who was staying with them as a guest, witnessed what happened while returning from the bathroom, but didn't tell anyone about it until much later because Victoria caught him watching her and threatened to have her team beat him up if he said a word. Sadly, Tag didn't call Wema out for the accusation, instead leaving that up to Gabriel who felt partially responsible (as Jeremy had figured that one out).

** In Season 1, Ben sees Tag and his team as unworthy to join the Street Football League and was jealous that he had such close relationships with them and that most of them had stable home lives compared to his own. Tony Lopez, meanwhile, hated the Rifflers ever since he got replaced with Eloïse after abandoning them during their first official match against the Sharks (the league at the time was underground and disliked by most of the public due to the unintentional property damage and peace disturbances caused by the games and several shopkeepers had notified the police, which Tony wanted nothing to do with). After this, Ben recruits Tony to his team and the two spend most of the rest of the season trying to get revenge on the Rifflers:

*** Trapping players for another team in a shipping container.

*** Framing the team for theft and burglary.
*** They come closest in their last sabotage attempt when Tony videotaped Ben (who was disguised as Tag) beating Ali to a pulp during a match between the Rifflers and the Scorpions. While the plan does work at first, getting Tag suspended from the World Cup and nearly causing him to leave town, it ultimately backfires after Gabriel and the twins discover Tony's involvement and force him to fess up to all of his and Ben's schemes. Even though everyone suggests that Ben and Tony should be banned from the League for life for their actions, Tag decides to let them off the hook, primarily due to sympathizing with Ben for his poor background. Following this, the two drop their grudge against Tag and the Rifflers and Ben settles his differences with the former to the point that he is later recruited to play for them on two separate occasions (once later in Season 1 and then again in Season 3), while Tony becomes civil with them again and even loans his old goalie gloves to Gabriel when the latter has to fill in for Eloise as goalkeeper on occasion.
** Victoria has held a grudge against Eloise from back in elementary school. From what Eloise had told Tag, Victoria's father owned the elementary school and she was trying to live up to his standards. On the other hand, Eloise was popular with students and teachers alike and she was praised with good grades whilst Victoria wasn't in either category and Eloise was her only friend. When Eloise decided to switch to public school due to wanting to get away from the pressure, Victoria felt betrayed since Eloise had promised her she would never leave her; this perceived betrayal was later amplified in their reunion in Season 2, when Victoria tries to join the Rifflers to reconnect with Eloise, but is turned away by Tag and Eloise sides with him over her. Since then, Victoria holds a grudge against Eloise and the Rifflers to the point of creating her own team, the Black Devils, who exploit the loopholes of street football unwritten rules to clobber them in their first game against them. Throughout the season, Victoria makes multiple evil plans to sabotage the Rifflers in one way or another:

*** At a charity game between the Rifflers and the Black Devils organized by her father, she frames Eloise for theft by planting some of charity money in her bag, temporarily getting her arrested.

*** Once the new rules were introduced, Victoria had no problem locking the Rifflers in their bedrooms in the middle of the night and threatening Lil Dragon (who accidentally witnessed her doing this) with being beat up if he snitched on her. The Rifflers received a warning from Fede, but unfortunately, Wema convinced half of the participating teams that the Rifflers were unreliable and not to be trusted, to the point where even Li'l Dragon sat next to Victoria at lunchtime out of fear, and the cup found themselves divided between the teams who distrusted the Rifflers and the teams who stood by them. Thankfully, Li'l Dragon overcame his fear and told the truth, clearing the Rifflers' name.

*** When the Malaysian Tigers are found to have all boys in their ranks (their sole female player was injured prior the World Cup and her brother dressed up as her to avoid them being disqualified), Fede only allows them to stay in the Cup if they can find a replacement female, and Victoria, seeing an opportunity, is the only one to step up to fill the slot. However, in their match against the Rifflers, she uses various methods that range from unethical to outright illegal to beat her rivals, which the Tigers do not agree with. When they call her out and threaten to kick her off the team, though, she reminds them that if they do so and no other female steps up to replace them, they'll have no choice but to withdraw from the World Cup, e.g. they're stuck with her. Fortunately, before they can make the choice to forfeit to preserve their honor and dignity, Samira has her friend Manuela volunteer to help; the Tigers at once accept and send Victoria packing.

* SurroundedByIdiots: When things get out of hand, Tag likes to refer to his own gang as idiots. For example, Tag saw the Canadian team trying to rig the game against the Japanese, but was shocked to find out that Akira didn't know about it. Incensed by this, Tag tries to convince his team that the Canadians were not to be trusted, but due to Tag recently being down in the dump over having cost the Rifflers a recent game by accidentally scoring on his own goal, they don't believe him, thinking that he's desperately trying to make up for this. Sadly for him, his sleuth-like activities draw the ire of the Canadian team when they realize he's on to them, leading them to successfully campaign against him to discredit him and get him sidelined for their game against his teams, and once the Rifflers find out that Tag was telling the truth all along,[[OhCrap they feel guilty]]. Unfortunately, [[KarmaHoudini Tag doesn't call his own team out]] because he knows that [[DotingParent they'll feel his wrath even more]].

* ThreeAmigos: Since the twins are moving to London, Gabriel going to Paris and Tag living in the Caribbean, Jeremy, Samira and Eloise look the ensemble in Season 4 with Victoria and Lil Dragon in tow.
* TimeSkip: Two years after the Rifflers beat the Panthers, [[spoiler:Tag is now 16 and is living with Pablo.Looking back on his experiences, he becomes a manager to a group of kids aiming for the gold.]]

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Pablo Arias Echervane. Tag is commonly called by his nickname by everyone.
** Tek and No is a pun on 'Techno'

* LaserGuidedKarma: Tag was pissed off when Mochi made his move on Eloïse. Just as the photographers were about to picture Mochi getting the lip action, Oscar shoved him out the way but he was kissing Eloise instead.
%%* LatinLover: Averted with Pablo.
* LeParkour: Tag is a skilled Traceur. He got that skill by hanging out with much older traceurs after his TrueCompanions became too busy to hang out with him one weekend.

* OneSteveLimit: Two characters are called Ali (One plays for the Scorpions whilst the other plays for the Suns. Two other characters are called Samira (one of them is a member of the Rifflers while the other also plays for the Scorpions).

Unlike ''La Compagnia dei Celestini'', ''Foot 2 Rue'' takes place in Port-Marie, a thinly-veiled [[InkSuitActor representation of Marseille]]. The kids of Port Marie organize a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Street Football]] [[UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup World Cup]] with the help of a former professional footballer, thus [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters attracting players from all around the world]] and becoming famous worldwide in the process. The sport itself consists of a stripped down version of soccer, meant to be accessible to all children regardless of money and social status and in any location.

Due to the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters policy, Foot 2 Rue now has its own [[Characters/Foot2Rue Character Sheet]]! Also due to the high number of Five Man Bands, Foot 2 Rue also has its own Five Man Band page. It also has a [[WMG/Foot2Rue WMG page.]]

* TheNapoleon: So many. There's [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Jeremy]], [[TsunDere Sandra]], [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair Hiro]], [[NoCelebritiesWereharmed Eduardo]], [[LittleMissBadass Crystal]] and [[{{Expy}} Diego]]

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Played straight with Hiro and Akira, who both have blue hair. On the other hand, Atsuko has pink hair. And eyebrows. Don't forget about [[DarkSkinnedRedhead Seiji]].
** Well, they are otakus and members of the Japanese team so they're probably just cosplaying.

A French Television show which aired on France 3, ''Foot 2 Rue'' (''Street Football'' in English and ''Futbol Callejero'' in Spanish) is based on the book, ''La Compagnia dei Celestini'' by Italian author Stefano Benni and adapted by French animator, Steven Roux of French Bulldog Studios. Originally, five seasons were planned, but only the first three were released, with the final episode acting as a form of epilogue, though there is a SequelSeries. However, it was recently announced that the series will return for its fourth season in February 2022, focusing on supporting character "Li'l Dragon" Wong as he seeks to rebuild a new team for World Cup contention.

''Foot 2 Rue'' follows the adventures of [[MagnificentSeven ''The Rifflers'']] a.k.a. "Les Blues de Port Marie". Five of them attend the [[BoardingSchool Riffler Institute]] in Port Marie.

* [[TheAce Samira Boudouce]] replaces the [=TekNo=] brothers along with Jeremy during the second season. She quickly becomes Eloïse's best friend (due them being the only girls on the team). She and Jeremy share a flirtatious relationship during the second season, which soon evolves into a romantic one over the remainder of the series.

The three seasons of this series were previously found in English on Netflix, under the alternate name of Street Football, but have been removed as of June 2016.

A French Television show which aired on France 3, ''Foot 2 Rue'' (''Street Football'' in English and ''Futbol Callejero'' in Spanish) is based on the book, ''La Compagnia dei Celestini'' by Italian author Stefano Benni and adapted by French animator, Steven Roux of French Bulldog Studios. Originally, five seasons were planned, but only the first three were released, with the final episode acting as a form of epilogue, though there is a SequelSeries. However, it was recently announced that the series will return for its fourth season in late 2021/early 2022, focusing on supporting character "Li'l Dragon" Wong as he seeks to rebuild a new team for World Cup contention.

** Yacine might look like he's still in preschool as Samira did mention in Season 2.

* BadassAdorable: Yacine becomes one. This is the start of Samira's troubles.

* ChekhovsGunman: Samira's cousin was mentioned in episode 18 of Season 2. In Season 4, her cousin, Yacine appears and replaces Gabriel. It is unknown whether said cousin was Yacine.

* CousinOliver: Yacine literally becomes one.

* KarmaHoudini: As far as Yacine is concerned, whenever he gets into trouble, Ms Pradet will always put the blame on Samira.
** Since Samira mentioned that Yacine was 4 years old, it's bound to happen.

* PromotionToParent: Samira's brother is the only adult she lives with. It is heavily implied that Yacine will live with them.

** With the sole exception of spoiler:Tag, the Rifflers do have RedOniBlueOni traits. Tek, Jeremy and Yacine are the RedOni ensemble due to their compulsive personality and emotional mood swings. On the other hand, Samira, Gabriel and Eloïse are the BlueOni ensemble.

*** She arranges for Jeremy to reunite with his younger half-brother Ben, knowing that he wouldn't be pleased to see him (mainly due to Jeremy being jealous that Ben gets to spend more time with their dad than him), and then steals footage of him abusing Ben and tries to give it to the press in order to ruin Jeremy's reputation to the point that the Rifflers and the League would have to cut ties with him to save face.

*** In the Season 2 finale, with the final qualification match of the 2nd Street Football World Cup between the Rifflers and the Black Devils coming up, Victoria and her father decide to use the Riffler Institute against the team; he has a school inspector friend come to the school and evaluate Jeremy's presence. As planned, the tyrannical inspector deems Jeremy as a thug despite how much he has changed and improved since coming to the institute. When Miss Adelaide, Tag, and Gabriel defend him to the point of outright disrespecting the inspector, he angrily deems Miss Adelaide unfit to be headmistress and ousts her from her position. He then takes over as headmaster and uses said power to unjustly expel Jeremy and send him to reform school, and forces Tag and Gabriel to do endless chores and refuses to allow them to leave the school grounds, putting the Rifflers' prospects in serious jeopardy. Fortunately, Tag and Gabriel work together with Chronos, the Sharks, and the rest of the Riffler students to frame the inspector as an incompetent, negligent, and even ''drunken'' headmaster, getting him arrested and fired, and allowing Miss Adelaide to retake her position and reverse Jeremy's expulsion. In the qualification match the next day, after the Rifflers take the lead and Eloise blocks one of her scoring attempts, Victoria (out of frustration and spite) then kicks the ball directly into Eloise's chest so hard that it sends her flying back into a tree. Cue Tag, who rushes to his girl's side and immediately calls Victoria out for this, and Fede immediately disqualifies her from the game for her brutal conduct causing her to run off in humiliation. Her right hand man, Alex explains to Fede that he'll take over and if the Rifflers win, the Black Devils will disband.

*** After the TekNo twins are temporarily called back to the Olympic team, she arranges for Tag to be injured, thus leaving the Rifflers short-handed until Tag recruits her old Season 1 counterpart Ben to fill in for him.
*** Once the new rules were introduced, Victoria had no problem locking the Rifflers in their bedrooms in the middle of the night and threatening Lil Dragon (who accidentally witnessed her doing this) if he snitched on her. The Rifflers received a warning from Fede, but unfortunately, Wema convinced everyone that the Rifflers were unreliable and not to be trusted, to the point where even Li'l Dragon sat next to Victoria at lunchtime out of fear.

*** When the Malaysian Tigers are found to have all boys in their ranks (their sole female player was injured prior the World Cup and her brother dressed up as her to avoid them being disqualified), Fede only allows them to stay in the Cup if they can find a replacement female, and Victoria, seeing an opportunity, is the only one to step up to fill the slot. However, in their match against the Rifflers, she uses various methods that range from unethical to outright illegal to beat her rivals, which the Tigers do not agree with. When they call her out and threaten to kick her off the team, though, she reminds them that if they do and no other female steps up to replace them, they'll have no choice but to withdraw from the World Cup, e.g. they're stuck with her. Fortunately, before they can make the choice to forfeit to preserve their honor, Samira has her friend Manuela volunteer to help; the Tigers at once accept and send Victoria packing.

** Don't forget about Ms Pradet. For some reason, she hates Samira. The poor kid unfortunately has to fight Yacine's battles and Ms Pradet will have no problem playing the blame game. Sadly, this means life for Samira will not go according to plan. Since they added Yacine to the cast to replace Gab, the writers have made an episode where Samira finally loses it.

* TrueCompanions: This was the reason why Tag formed the Bleus de Port Marie. [[SeriousBusiness He imagines himself being]] [[spoiler:married to Eloise]] whilst [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Gabriel is his best man at the wedding]], [[HappilyMarried Jeremy and Samira as the married couple who are also their best friends]] and [[SingleMindedTwins Tek,No,]][[CousinOliver Yacine]] and [[TagAlongKid Lil Dragon]] as their offspring.

Due to the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters policy, Foot 2 Rue now has its own [[Characters/Foot2Rue Character Sheet]]! Also due to the high number of Five Man Bands, Foot 2 Rue also has its own [[FiveManBand/Foot2Rue Five Man Band]] page. It also has a [[WMG/Foot2Rue WMG page.]]

* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Tag
** TheLancer: Jeremy
** TheBigGuy(s): Tarek and Nordine
** TheSmartGuy: Gabriel
** TheChick(s): Eloïse and Samira
*** Tag, Jeremy and Gabriel are TheHero, TheLancer and TheSmartGuy by default whilst Eloise, Samira, and the Tek No bros have a tendancy to switch to TheBigGuy.
** In the season 3 finale where [[spoiler: Tag, Tek and Gabriel don't play in the finals (Tek leaves after the semi-final after being recruited to a professional team in London, Tag leaves for Argentina with his long-lost father the night before, and Gabriel is injured the same day and is unable to play per doctor's orders)]]:
--->TheHero: Eloise (Tag's girlfriend who is the de facto captain).
--->TheLancer: Samira (Eloise's best friend and also the 2nd in command) and Lil Dragon.
--->TheBigGuy: Jeremy ([[TeamDad He assures]] Li'l Dragon that everything will be okay).
--->TheSmartGuy: Nordine
--->TheChick: [[Victoria]]