Giant Killing - S01

<p>East Tokyo United (ETU) has struggled in Japan's top soccer league for the past few years. It has taken everything they have just to avoid relegation. To make matters worse, the team has lost five matches in a row, leading to terrible morale. Even the fans are starting to abandon them, and rumors suggest the home ground municipality is going to withdraw its support. With countless coaches fired and poor financial choices in hiring players, ETU is in a downward spiral.</p> <p>The board of directors, under pressure from general manager Kousei Gotou, takes a gamble and hires a new coach: the slightly eccentric Takeshi Tatsumi. Though considered a great soccer player when he was younger, Tatsumi abandoned ETU years ago. Since then, however, he has proven himself successful as the manager of one of England's lower division amateur teams.</p> <p>Tatsumi's task will not be easy. ETU fans call him a traitor, and the team is pitted against others with larger budgets and better players. Yet even the underdog can take down a goliath, and Tatsumi claims he is an expert at "giant killing."</p>