Funaki Hiromasa

Funaki Hiromasa (船木 宏正) is Shinsei Inazuma Japan's trainer.

Appearance
Funaki has pale skin and short light brown hair. He wears blue framed glasses and is always seen wearing a light tan suit with an orange tie.

Personality
He is shown to have a strong dislike for Kuroiwa Ryuusei because the members he chose for Shinsei Inazuma Japan are all beginners who don't know how to play soccer (except for Tenma, Tsurugi and Shindou). He also knows about Kuroiwa's plot of trying to take over the world of soccer into darkness.

Plot (Galaxy)
In Episode 1, he first appeared along with Kuroiwa who chose the members of Shinsei Inazuma Japan and watched the exhibition between Shinsei Inazuma Japan and Teikoku. After the match ended with 10-1 with Teikoku winning, he was angry and disappointed at Kuroiwa but Kuroiwa just remained silent and left with Mizukawa.

In Episode 2, when all the members of Shinsei Inazuma Japan came to Odaiba Soccer Garden. The next day, he announced to all the members about that their first opponent in FFIV2 is Fire Dragon and gave them the training menu.

In Episode 3, he was seen watching the match between Shinsei Inazuma Japan and Fire Dragon at the bench along with Aoi, Kuroiwa and Mizukawa.

In Episode 4, he came to Gouenji's place and asked him to change the coach because he couldn't stand Kuroiwa anymore. However, not only refused, Gouenji said that he trusted Kuroiwa but Funaki then told him that he knew about Kuroiwa is trying to take over the world of soccer into darkness.

In Episode 5, he watched as Shinsei Inazuma Japan took their withdrawal test in front of the crowd whilst still wondering what Kuroiwa's plan is with the setup he made.

In Episode 6, he watched the match between Shinsei Inazuma Japan and Big Waves at the bench with Kuroiwa, Mizukawa and Aoi

In Episode 7, he asked Kuroiwa about is it okay to let Sakura continues to play after saw her kept continuing on her solo-playing.

In Episode 8, he complained to Kuroiwa about Kusaka after heard that he got caught by the polices due to have a fight with another gang.

In Episode 9, after the first-half of the match between Shinsei Inazuma Japan and Shamshir ended with Shamshir lead 1-0, he got angry at Kusaka of how he attacked the three players from Shamshir. On the second-half, he got panicked when the gang that Kusaka fought with in the previous episode came to the field.