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Sae

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Sae Itoshi is a brilliant and arrogant football prodigy, known as the best player in Japan. Driven solely by his ambition to become the world's greatest midfielder, Sae looks down on his teammates and the Japanese national team, seeing them as unworthy of his skills. With his exceptional technical abilities and tactical genius, Sae is a force to be reckoned with on the pitch, but his single-minded pursuit of greatness may be his greatest downfall.

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