9. JFU Press Conference on the Blue Lock Project

Anri and Buratsuta held a JFU press conference attended by several journalists to explain the Blue Lock project. The journalists began criticizing the project, questioning whether creating a single top Japanese striker could really lead to winning the World Cup.

They also asked whether it was ethical to destroy the lives of 299 participants for the sake of one individual. Buratsuta responded that they respected the participants and that the participants’ parents had signed consent forms.

Anri then slammed her hand on the table and spoke firmly to the journalists. She emphasized that the Blue Lock project could advance Japanese soccer and create a national soccer hero for Japan.

Anri also stated that although global soccer fans acknowledged that Japan had become stronger, Japan’s old dream of simply qualifying for the World Cup had already been achieved. Therefore, Anri wanted to create a new dream: to make Japan the World Cup champion. According to her, the solution lay in Blue Lock.

After that, Anri left and ended the press conference, while the journalists remarked that the JFU’s idea was absurd. Mamat then informed Sae that it was time to head to the airport for his flight to Spain. However, Sae asked Mamat to cancel the flight. He wanted to see for himself what kind of player the Blue Lock project would create.

10. Ego Jinpachi Explains Blue Lock’s Purpose

Ego asserted that the primary goal of soccer is to score goals. According to him, only fools are fixated on positions and tactics, as every role evolves over time. Soccer, Ego explained, was originally played with every player acting as a striker. He demanded that the participants play soccer from scratch, recreating its essence as it was in the beginning.

Ego urged the participants to abandon common sense and instill a new mindset within themselves. According to him, what Japan needed to become world champions wasn’t the cooperation of 11 players, but one superhero.

Soccer, he said, evolves continuously when there is a superhero like Messi, Neymar, or Cristiano Ronaldo. To stop a superhero, new defensive systems are created. To surpass them, new tactics are born. The actions of one player can change a team, a nation, and even the world. That, according to Ego, is the essence of soccer that Blue Lock seeks to achieve.