“I´ve spent muddy dyas watching young lads beat the hell out of each other. But once in a while, there´s one that comes along and lifts your heart.”
When Santiago Munez crossed the Mexican border into America at the age of 10, he had two things in his possession: his soccer ball and a tattered picture of the World Cup.
Working menial jobs while growing up in Los Angeles, Santiago´s (Kuno Becker) passion was playing soccer, Convincing his father that he could be and international football star was another story: “There are two types of people in this world,” declares the elder Munez, “People in big house, and people like us who cut their lawns and wash their cars.”
But when Brit Glen Foy (Stephen Dillane), an amiable former football player and sometime scout spots Santiago at a local match, he recognizes a deft, fast and brave footballer the kind of talent that the English Premier League Club, Newcastle United, is hungry for..