Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11076315-20130622053534/@comment-130.243.186.82-20130622142323

My first thought was that the whatever entity that's billed as the big bad this season, and I don't think it'll be outright aliens rather than a bait-and-switch like the one the pulled in season 2, was that Fire Dragon and Big Waves were clones of the real players, which were being held captive by said big bad in order to assume complete control over the soccer world(or just THE WORLD ITSELF considering how soccer is treated in-universe). That would give a excuse for WHY a rag-tag team like Shinsei would be able to be beat both of those teams. Maybe the trade-off for complete control is some power? At least, that would make me feel a bit better about the lucky victories that Shinsei has been able to scrape together so far.