The film mainly tells the story of the Latino youth Santiago, who grows into a superstar in the Premier League Newcastle United with his football talent and unremitting efforts.
Santiago has a dream to become a professional football player. However, living in the slums of Los Angeles, he is just a poor boy from Mexico, a professional football player, and it is just a dream for him.
Santiago Munez is a football teenager who grew up in the Mexican countryside, and he outlined his dream of becoming a professional player in his childhood. One night, my father hurriedly boarded a van with the whole family and ran to the border where he escaped poverty with the American dream. Although Santiago lost his beloved football while crossing the barbed wire, it opened the curtain for the dream to come true in the future.
In the blink of an eye, the entire Santiago family has settled in Los Angeles. Apart from working in a Chinese restaurant and following his father's construction team to clean the courtyard of a rich mansion, Santiago is still obsessed with football, and his vigorous posture often appears in the simple football on the street. field. One day, among the crowd cheering for Santiago, there was an unfamiliar face. His name was Gran. He was a capable player of the Premier League powerhouse Newcastle United, and then worked as a scout. Gran was convinced that San Diego would become the future football player. A superstar, decided to introduce him to a football agent. Unexpectedly, the aloof agent unexpectedly missed the appointment, and the joyful Santiago was disappointed. Before returning home, Gran contacted a former boss, the Newcastle manager, who, after repeated pleading, agreed to interview in England.
Santiago has been secretly hiding his savings in the leather boots of the closet. The travel expenses were paid immediately, but his father took it for a new car, because the father firmly opposed his son's football ambitions and hoped that he could develop the family's career together. Santiago, who thought his dream was shattered, was pleasantly surprised to find that his grandmother had prepared a flight ticket and travel expenses to the UK for him. Soon, Santiago met Gran in the UK.
The two met the team owner at the Newcastle headquarters, and in the pouring rain, Santiago put on his jersey and joined the game. The nervousness, the slippery mud and the collision of English football made the young player perform abnormally, and the fate of premature death was inevitable. Gran, who refused to give up, found the team owner again and fought for a one-month probation period for San Diego. During a medical examination, Santiago met Hamison, the team nurse, and the two fell in love with each other.
In the day-to-day training, the team owner gradually became aware of Santiago's skills. In the face of Santiago, who is talented but blindly dribbling the ball, he repeatedly emphasized that football is not a performance of one person, but a teamwork. Before a game, the throat spray Santiago relied on was smashed by a hostile teammate every time. He was short of breath and performed poorly on the court, and the team owner showed a red card again.
It turned out that Santiago had been hiding that he had asthma and could not compete without the asthma spray. Frustrated, Santiago prepares to embark on a journey back home, but in a taxi, he encounters Gavin, the team's big-name star who was late for an affair. With Gavin's help, the team owner who learns the truth agrees to accept San Diego again. , and provide him with treatment.
Santiago finally signed a contract with Newcastle, and soon became the main force of the team. He began to appear on the green field of the Premier League.
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