The Old Dog, New Tricks? (Scripted, Japanese)
Status: Ended
Premiered: 2022-06-26
Ended: 2022-09-04
Network: TBS
Country: JP
Airs on: Sunday
Air time: 21:00
Runtime: 50 minutes
Ryotaro is a cheerful professional soccer player devoted to the game he loves. He has risen to national team member, and come through with decisive goals when it counts… until injury begins to plague him. Facing retirement at 37, he realizes it is a little late for him to enter normal working society. Enter a sports management company called "Victory" which offers him a new lease on life. Yet somewhere in his heart, Ryotaro has not quite accepted his retirement, and he will need to reconcile with new challenges as an old rookie.