Story: To be honest, I'm not a huge soccer/football fan. Like I played a bit as a kid, was never really good but I enjoy watching it. I get the rules. And to be honest, you don't have to know much about the game. As long as you played a sport before, you'll get all the sports stuff (maybe not ALL, but 95%). I was very impressed with the pacing and development of the manga. I mean, this is a real show on how great pacing can be for a manga. It's perfect in that sense. You feel you get somewhere by the end of every chapter. You can see growth in all the characters and it doesn't feel like the MC is "powering" up way too fast. It's good. Really good.

Art: The art can be a bit much at times. I'm never really lost or anything, but sometimes the artist is trying to draw an action scene and the art is hard to follow. But it's good nonetheless.

Character: The characters are really good. It's actually what makes the manga so well-received (IMO). It's not a situation where someone is an ass, and then they are revealed to be a nice guy. Nah, they're an ass period. And they stay like that, and it takes a lot for them to change because that's who they are. Even with all these very different characters working together, they all act as though they should. They don't stray far from who they are being portrayed to be and it's so great to not have the author bend characters around the plot. It's very well written in that sense.

Enjoyment: Honestly, I can't get enough. Like I said, I'm not a huge soccer/football fan, but I want to see these characters through and know where they end up.

In the end, I really do recommend it. Sometimes I feel like the love story should be a bit more fast paced because I don't get enough of it (sorry, I love a good love story) but besides that, I think this is a great story.