Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24510002-20180720172819/@comment-36238563-20180725222255

AmetistaMasato676 wrote: Someone on the last thread suggested a Club WC instead of a Champions League which while it sounds more befitting of inazuma eleven because of the adition of Japanese Clubs is a much shorter competition than the champions league so frankly in my opnion couldn't carry a 40 episode arc (based on the fact Ares has a similar ammount of episdoes to the first inazuma and season one of ares has 26 episodes i assume the next arc will also run until episode 66 like the original) also to qualify to the CWC a club needs to win the champions league in some format ( CONCAF, Asian , European etc). Level 5 could just easily use some Inazuma Magic to get all club sides from around the world (or maybe even just europe) to compete in some sort of champions league style competition. That was me!

Yeah, I agree that the real life Club World Cup's length wouldn't be long enough to carry that big an arc. My thinking was that they'd do exactly what you suggested and just take the CWC concept (a worldwide club championship) and drop it into a Champions League (or FFI) style setup, groups followed by a knock-out stage. Winning the Football Frontier would be enough of a qualification criteria for a Japanese side.

Considering Endou's attitude at the end of Inazuma Reloaded towards the reinforcement commitee idea (and I guess just football in general), it seems unlikely he'll make a sudden heel turn. A tough opponent, sure, but his perspective towards the sport is so similar to Asuto's that I can't see him wanting to put the new Raimon down in any way. If anything, I could easily see him helping them become stronger before facing Outei in the final.