In Reloaded, they had a practice match against the Spanish team Barcelona Orb and were just as badly beaten as they were when Gemini Storm first attacked (except this time nobody needs hospitalization), which also sets the plot of the series, that of transferring to different schools in Japan in order to strenghten their soccer. The episode implies that the main characters did not become weaker, but the fact that they got stronger thanks to the fights against Aliea is why they were able to keep up with the rest of the world in the first place. Inazuma Eleven Reloaded pretty much josses this.Then once you look at the base FP and TP for players in Inazuma Eleven 3 compared to Inazuma Eleven 2 it all makes sense, at first glance one might get the impression that they're there so it encourages you to actually use your subs, but it could also imply that the players just weren't as good as they were back in Inazuma Eleven 2.

At first one can think that most players trained so hard that they acheived a level greater than the Aliea meteorites, which is hard to believe even for this series. Inazuma Eleven 2 members actually got weaker when FFI began.It always feels weird to see that the Raimon members who were able to keep up with Aliea meteorite boosted and actually were not aliens in Inazuma Eleven 2, now were actually struggling against people around the world who didn't face against something as bad. Even Endou Daisuke is somewhat dark-skinned due to living in Africa for a while, but not to the same extent as Rococo, so the former theory might be more plausible. Considering Domon and Ichinose are part of America's team and Hidetoshi Nakata used to be the captain of Italy's representative team, despite all of them being Japanese, that doesn't stop Rococo from being the captain of Little Gigant just because he isn't Cotarlese. That being said, he doesn't have to be Cotarlese(?) to be part of the national team or even the team's captain. Alternatively, he might not be of African ethnicity at all, but a caucasian who spend most of his life in Cotarl, which contributes to his dark skin.We've never seen his parents, so it's possible that one of them is is black and the other is caucasian or even Asian (or 'stateless'). Rococo isn't 100% African.The rest of Little Gigant look obviously African, but Rococo, judging by his facial structures and rather Anime Hair alone, looks more like a typical Ambiguously Brown character than an actual African.

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