Nine is the number of the best striker in soccer. Given the number 9 in the Megumi High soccer team, Fujiyama Kazuya is a striker with a parallel belief that a draw in a game has no meaning. To him, if you don't win, then there's no sense in playing at all. Despite that kind of mentality, their team has never won a game as of yet. How far forward will the boy who has never been victorious--but even so, is determined to win--reach when a mysterious man called Kuniyoshi Utagawa, who has a liking for the number nine, makes his appearance?

Goal Den Age is a manga that was published in serial SPECIAL soccer cartoon.

In Giant Killing a ragtag bunch from East Tokyo are struggling in Japan's top football league. The team is going through an abysmal spell right now where they are nearing the bottom of the table and have lost 5 matches in a row. The losses haven't done much to team morale, because it was already low. Fan support, on the other hand, is looking bleak. In the world of football, once the fans turn on a team the end is near. Teams don't recover. Coaches are fired, players are sold, and teams drop to lower divisions where profits often prevent them from ever being successful against even mediocre top division teams. East Tokyo United, ETU, can only blame their coach right now. And Coach is ready to give up this next game to prove to his team and fans, that against the biggest club in the nation he can make this team win.

Note: Won the 34th Annual Kodansha Manga Award (2010) in the General category.