Little Gigant (リトルギガント, Ritoru Giganto) is Cotarl's national team. They fought against Inazuma Japan in the finals of the Football Frontier International. Little Gigant was also known as the "dark horse" of the FFI.
Little Gigant's uniform consists of a green shirt with yellow stripes on shoulders, white collar and yellow sleeve borders. This is fitted along with dark grey shorts with white and yellow borders and yellow socks, with red cleats. The goalkeeper uniform is red, with dark blue sleeves and white triangles between the sleeves and the red section. This is fitted with dark blue shorts with red and white stripes around the edge of the pants holes. Rococo Ulpa assumes the captain's band, which is red.
Little Gigant beat Orpheus with 8-0 without even using a hissatsu. In fact, Gigi Blasi was not able to stop a normal shoot from Drago Hill because it was too strong for him, Rococo Ulpa was able to stop Raffaele Generani's Freeze Shot with just his right hand and he even stopped Fidio's Odin Sword with all his power.
The match wasn't shown in the game but the result is the same with Little Gigant won for 8-0. It was said by Fidio that the first half finished on 0-0, and all 8 goals were scored in the second half.
Before the match started, Endou Daisuke also told the team to take off the weights. Everybody was surprised why they had weights on their body's. Natsumi then explained that they wore those weights in all the matches they played and that each of them weighs around 20kg, meaning that they were able play without getting tired even though they wore weights.
During the first minutes of the match, Drago scored the first goal for his team using Double Jaw since Endou's God Catch was not completed. Inazuma Japan used a lot of strong shoots, but Shin Bakunetsu Screw, Dragon Slayer V3 and Ryuusei Blade V3 weren't strong enough to score against Rococo because he used God Hand X, a powerful variant of God Hand. Despite this, Hiroto made a goal few minutes later using his new hissatsu, Tenkuu Otoshi.
Later in the second half, Daisuke changed his team formation. He brought Rococo up to the offense, leaving Kane Saitoo as the new goalkeeper and putting Drago Hill on the bench. Rococo was able to score a goal using X Blast against Endou's God Catch, as he had mastered the hissatsu, but it wasn't strong enough yet. Hiroto also tried to score another goal with Tenkuu Otoshi, but since Walter Mountain used Ground Quake and Kane also used God Hand X, Kane was able to stop Tenkuu Otoshi. Inazuma Japan tried to score another goal with Grand Fire G2 but Kane evolved his God Hand X to God Hand X Kai. He even evolved it to Shin God Hand X when Koutei Penguin 3gou G3 was used by Inazuma Japan. But Kidou Yuuto, Hiroto and Fubuki Shirou came with a new shoot hissatsu, Big Bang and they scored the second goal against Little Gigant. As Kane damaged his hand trying to stop Big Bang, Rococo went back to being goalkeeper and Ryuu Scale was changed with his postion as forward. When Little Gigant was having a hard time, Daisuke told the team to also lift the weights from their shoulders. At first the team didn't get what he meaned because they already took their weights off but Rococo explained to his team that he meant that they should relax a bit and wouldn't get too stressed. This made Little Gigant a lot stronger and the team was able to evolve many hissatsu's. When Inazuma Japan used Big Bang again Rococo was even able to come up with a new hissatsu to stop Big Bang: Tamashii The Hand. Rococo also came up to shoot as Daisuke's words also meant he shouldn't stay as a goalkeeper only but also come up to score goals. Rococo evolved X Blast to X Blast V2 and although the shoot broke through God Catch G2 the ball hit the goalpost and Endou was just able to save it. Rococo even evolved it to X Blast V3 but Endou was able to stop it this time with his evolved God Catch G3. Then Inazuma Japan used a new shoot hissatsu, Jet Stream which they tried before, but this time the shoot was done with Endou instead of Fudou Akio and it broke through Tamashii The Hand G2, scoring the third goal right before the end. So at the end, Inazuma Japan won with 3-2.
In the game, Little Gigant took the lead with Gooshu Flare's goal. Inazuma Japan reacted directly with Gouenji's Bakunetsu Screw but Rococo catched it with his fresh new hissatsu for the final, Tamashii The Hand and got praised by Gouenji and Kidou, comparing his skill to Endou's. In the second half, Rococo changed his position from goalkeeper to forward.
Most of its members are based on and/or named after members of Raimon and Second Raimon.
There is no member based on Kidou, Ichinose, Domon, Touko, Rica, or Shadow. This is due to Kidou already having a copycat (Demonio Strada), Ichinose and Domon having already been featured in Unicorn, Touko and Rica being , and thus cannot play in the FFI and Shadow joining Raimon for a short period of time.
Their country of origin, Cotarl (dub: Côte-Victoire), is fictional.
In the Polish localization, they're representatives of Cameroon, a country in west-central Africa. However, it was later changed to Congo, a country in central Africa.
They wore pack-like weights that weighed 20 kg under their shirts in all the matches until told to "let them loose" in the finals of the FFI, so they could fight Inazuma Japan all-out.
They are one of the only final teams that cannot be challenged in the GO games, alongside Dark Emperors.
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