Noel Noa

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**Noel Noa** (ノエル・ノア, *Noeru Noa*?) is a 31-year-old forward from France who plays on France’s National Team and on Germany’s Bastard München. Noa is currently known as the best striker in the world and Yoichi Isagi’s idol and mentor. Over a decade ago, he was Jinpachi Ego's former teammate/rival.

He is initially introduced at the beginning of the series but he officially makes his debut in the Neo Egoist League when he comes to Blue Lock as the master striker/coach of the Germany Stratum.

## Appearance

Noa is a tall pale skinned man with a muscular frame. His hair is white and his eyes are yellow with black-shaded eyelids. As a member of the France National Team, Noa wears the standard #9 striped blue and red kit with white shorts, red socks, and red and white cleats. When Noa arrives at Blue Lock he is usually seen wearing the Blue Lock tracksuit. When playing with Bastard München, Noa dons the #9 black, red, and gold kit.

## Personality

Noa is a very calm but serious person who speaks very clearly and candidly while still maintaining his manners. He is described by fellow football colleagues as a cyborg because of his very serious and non-expressive demeanor. He does not like when his players try to act superior to others and regards it as childish. Noa admits that he does not take into consideration intangible factors like impressions or emotion but only a player’s numbers and the results that come from those numbers when picking his team, but if he is inclined to play a player due to their popularity and any contracts, he is beholden to, then he will forsake his earlier judgment.

Having grown up poor in the slums of France, Noa has taken his football very seriously from a young age because it was the only way for him to change his life. Around his fellow world-class players, Noa’s serious demeanor is found annoying by his more expressive and reckless colleagues as he ignores them and their statements of being the best.

Just because Noa is cold and serious does not mean he is not willing to properly advise and teach his players especially when they ask him for help as seen with Isagi. As a coach, he is direct and strict when it comes to training his players, refusing to let anyone play if they don’t prove themselves to be worthy or take the opportunities to improve their skills.

## Abilities

### Archetype

* **Complete Forward**: Complete Forwards are strikers with great technical ability, clinical finishing, and physical strength, enabling them to fulfill multiple roles. They can link up with and play in others, fashion chances for themselves, finish off team moves and hold up the ball. These players are often best given the freedom to play as they wish, without rigid tactical instruction, as their versatility allows them to be fluid on the pitch.

### Skills

* **Supreme Physicality**: With a supreme and well-balanced physicality as a base and the skill that comes from being completely ambidextrous, Noa is a player that has unlimited options. He can act as a starter for any play, connect with his teammates and finish off plays with little difficulty even when faced against players on par with his skill. He is known as the best striker in the world due to his unlimited options and his hyper-efficient style of play.
	+ **Machine Dribble:** Noa's dribble style involves him moving forward efficiently with the ball with pure speed and power.

* **Ambidexterity**: Noa is completely and evenly ambidextrous with his feet allowing him to dribble, trap, pass, feint and shoot the ball with either foot at any angle with the same level of power and accuracy on either side.

* **All-Powerful Shot**: With Noa’s ambidexterity and his top-tier physicality, Noa is able to make any kind of shot with either foot being able to constantly feint while switching feet and finish a play with a shot that does not lose power or accuracy from using both feet in tandem.

## Quotes

* (His View on Teamwork, Chapter 1) *Instead of assisting my teammates to win 1-0, it feels better to pull off a hat trick and lose 3-4.*
* (To Isagi, Chapter 158) *You cannot “not know” something about your own plans. Visualize an ideal situation that you can explain and verbalize completely. “Not knowing” means there is wishful thinking in your thought process, which is merely noise. And that lack of logic can destroy any plan.*
* (To Bastard München, Chapter 163) *The opposite of a chance is a “pinch”. If you miss the chance that is in front of you, you will fall into a pinch equal to that missed opportunity. The risk and return is equal. Understand that principle of that unwavering world.*
* (To Isagi, Chapter 199) *Get rid of unnecessary noise. You're too greedy. Streamline your thought process. Think logically. You're not god. In this very moment, what is the one thing that you desire the most?*

## Trivia

* He grew up in the slums of France.
* He has won the Ballon d'Or before.
* Noa ranked 28th in the first popularity poll with 12 votes.
* He won the World Cup 2018.

## References

1. ↑ Character profile from *Egoist Bible*
2. ↑ Character profile from *Egoist Bible*
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 154.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 158.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 163.