Whistle! – Manga

whistle! is about a boy named shō kazamatsuri. he transfers from musashinomori school to sakura josui junior high school for better hopes to make the soccer team, since he never got a game at his old school due to his small stature. yūko katori, his teacher, introduces him as a former star of the famed musashinomori team, causing his classmates to be wrongly ecstatic. right after that, one of the players, tatsuya mizuno, reveals that he was never a regular. in other words, since he never got the chance to play, shō is a poor player. shō struggles to improve his skill so he can make the team at his new school and to ignore the drastic disadvantage he has due to his height.