Sayonara Football
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Sayonara Football

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: She is a cute footballer!
Japanese: さよならフットボール
English: Sayonara, Football
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Information

Type: Manga
Volumes: 2
Chapters: 8
Status: Finished
Published: Jun 20, 2009 to Aug 20, 2010
Genres: Romance Romance, Sports Sports
Themes: School School, Team Sports Team Sports
Demographic: Shounen Shounen
Serialization: Magazine E-no
Authors: Arakawa, Naoshi (Story & Art)

Statistics

Score: 7.031 (scored by 16131,613 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #83832
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #5423
Members: 3,915
Favorites: 7

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Sayonara, Football
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Synopsis

Onda Nozomi is in her second year on the middle school soccer team but has yet to play a single game because she is a girl. Growing up playing soccer, she has the technical skills, endurance and the elegance. However, as a girl, she can't overcome the physical difference and she can see all her male teammates that she grew up playing soccer with get further and further away from her. Even her younger brother, Junpei, who is also on the team, is starting to rise above her. Coach Samejima sees that Nozomi is an amazing player but because soccer is such a physical sport, he can't let her play. Nozomi isn't the kind of girl that just gives up so she practices harder than anyone and drives the team in the hopes of one day playing in a game.

(Source: MU)

Background

Sayonara, Football was digitally published in English by Kodansha Comics USA on July 12, 2016.

Characters

Onda, Nozomi
Main
Echizen, Sawa
Supporting
Takei, Kaoru
Supporting
Samejima, Kouzou
Supporting
Onda, Junpei
Supporting
Tani, Yasuaki
Supporting
Yamada, Tetsuji
Supporting

Reviews

Mar 20, 2022
Sayonara football is a very inspiring and heartwarming manga. It is very well-paced and handles the debate of "girls v boys" very well, and does realize that boys do get physically stronger than girls when they get older.

The main character, Onda, is a very inspiring one, as she is determined to beat all of her opponents, no matter what obstacles come her way! It's also nice to see a female protag in a football manga.

The artwork was very pretty and I enjoyed it.

Overall I enjoyed and would recommend reading sayonara football, it's very short and you could finish it in one night.
Jun 16, 2020
Okay, that's a really good history

I've never seen an female protagonist in a soccer history, I really loved it, Onda is such a nice character.

This series used a bunch of cliches, buts they are pretty well worked. So it's really not a problem, anyways you can read it in one night and it's worth.

Some points didn't have the deserved ending, but I'll let them passa because I know there's a series of Onda on High School releasing today (Sayonara, watashi no cramer). But you don't have to worry about having to read the new series, this one have a good closure and it's a history ...
Mar 8, 2019
For a manga consisting of only two volumes, it's good, but if you are expecting a tear-jerking and overwhelmingly dramatic story like Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso, you are in for a disappointment.

Nonetheless, Sayonara Football is a very entertaining and also quite heartwarming sports manga. Main heroine Onda is a middle-schooler with great talent and passion for soccer, but tormented by the thought of being left behind by her male teammates as time passes and their bodies grow larger and manlier. When confronted by a former friend and now rival, she starts her quest to gain her spot in the team to play an ...

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