Noboru Sawaki

For his counterpart, see Noboru Sawaki (RoNC).

Noboru Sawaki
沢木昇

Nationality

Japanese

Birthday

September 17

Height

169cm (BF)150cm (KD)

Weight

58kg (BF), 43kg (KD)

Blood type

A

Position

Forward

Other names

Meiwa's Center Forward

First appearance

Captain Tsubasa (1981) chapter 18

Past career

Level

Team

U-16

Japan Jr. (J-Village)

Middle school

Meiwa Higashi

Elementary school

Meiwa FC

Noboru Sawaki (沢木昇, Sawaki Noboru) is the forward of Meiwa Higashi middle school in the Saitama prefecture, and he also played for Meiwa FC. He wears the number 11 and 9 jerseys, respectively.

Description[]

In the semi-final against Toho Academy middle school, he faces off against some old teammates from Meiwa FC, and suffers a bitter defeat. He's an undeniably skilled player, and is named as one of the top players at both the Yomiuriland and the 16th National middle school tournament, respectively.

Biography[]

Kids' Dream arc[]

In Yomiuriland, he, together with Kojiro Hyuga, formed the two-top of Meiwa FC. The team reached the finals against Nankatsu while remaining unbeaten. In this match Sawaki had a good chance to equalize near the end of the game when he was in front of the goal unmarked. However, this was prevented by Ishizaki. In the end, Meiwa lost 2-4.

Boys' Fight arc[]

Sawaki then moved on to Meiwa Higashi middle school, unlike his former teammates Hyuga, Wakashimazu and later Sawada, who go to the Toho Academy. In their 3rd National middle school tournament, Meiwa Higashi had to face Toho in the semi-final. He was confident about a victory, since they knew Toho the best, and especially since Toho's strength was weakened because Hyuga won't be playing. He and his teammates scored one goal against Wakashimazu with the Sliding Tackle Force to take the lead, however Toho managed to reverse the score in the last minutes and won 2-1.

J Boys' Challenge arc[]

After the 16th National middle school tournament, Sawaki was selected as the best 24 players of the tournament and was invited to the training camp of All Japan Jr. Youth during three weeks, but he does not make it for the strengthening matches in West Germany with the definite squad for Japan.

Techniques[]

Ground shots[]

Sliding Shot: This sliding volley shot is used when the ball is low in the air. The player runs up and slides into the ball without slowing down, launching it in a low, sharp trajectory.

Cooperative tactics[]

Sliding Force: as part of the Meiwa squad, he slide tackles in succession, being able to stop a single opponent together and steal the ball away as the latter stumbles. In the 2018 anime, Sawaki scores by himself, the other members were just behind but they did not rely on strength but rather trick Wakashimazu in order to score.