@MRain not really? u also hafta consider that in the plotline, japan isnt even famous for football at all. while its an interesting concept of young boys working from rags to riches, it takes way too much investment and corporate companies would rather milk the money out of something they already have vs play a risky bet on smthn new. also greedy mfers like the CEO wouldn't do something as nice as charity work to help foster talent. as readers, we obviously know someone (like MC) from blue lock will make it big cuz that's likely to be the ending but realistically u cant really bet on someones future like that considering there's tons of talented people out there but only a select few are skillful enough to be recruited/launch their own career. ud have to be pretty high up in the ranks of football imo for someone to go omg i want to go to the same training program as them
not just that why would someone talented, who hasn't been recruited already by any other big football league in the first place, travel all the way to japan when japan isn't famous for football, and train and maybe get recruited by a league. rn blue lock is just a training program and im assuming these kids will eventually "graduate" and apply to actual sports teams but being "successful" (enough for people to know u at least) also involves actually being able to play at games that gain attraction, gaining sponsorships and popularity and yada yada
also, if u-20 loses, imagine how hard that will hit the already-image of japan in this story. people wont even bother paying attention, if they did in the first place in the story, to japan's teams and it'll only make a bad reputation for the ceo- like omg his teams really arent much/cant gain profit so other companies will stop sponsoring them n etc