When the whistle blew, Hanrahan High School quickly took control of the ball. Their players moved with remarkable fluidity, almost as if they were dancing across the pitch.
Hasumi Seiya's tactics were evident from the first touches, and it soon became clear that this was no ordinary soccer match.
The defense, made up of defenders who looked more like midfielders, exchanged short, precise passes, always keeping possession of the ball.
Gramma High School seemed stunned by the speed and precision with which the passes were made. Their players ran from side to side, trying to keep up, but it soon became clear that they were being overpowered.
Hanrahan's style of play was a pure representation of the soccer ideas that Fernando Diniz, one of the most innovative coaches in world soccer, had popularized in Brazil. His concepts of fluid, dynamic positional soccer were applied to perfection by Hasumi Seiya.
