Gillot Alain
Gillot Alain - The Penalty Area - Paperback
Gillot Alain - The Penalty Area - Paperback
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Description: A heart - warming novel about overcoming adversity making human connections and football. Vincent once had a shot at becoming a professional soccer player but a career - ending knee injury put an end to his dreams. A tough kid from a poor family he has become an emotionally cut - off man with frustrated hopes and limited options. He finds himself coaching an under - 16 soccer club in an attempt to keep alive his only passion in life. The team he coaches is little more than a roster of hot - headed boys none of whom understands the on - field chemistry needed to win. Simply put they aren t of a championship calibre. When his unemployed sister Madeleine a single mother dumps her thirteen - year - old son on him Vincent panics. With no clue how to take care of a teenager he brings his nephew to practice and eventually throws him into the scrimmage. It's then that Vincent notices there's something strange about Le onard. He has a preternatural ability for anticipating each striker's intentions making him a remarkably talented goalkeeper. But Le onard looks detached absent lost. Le onard has undiagnosed Asperger's syndrome. What is equally clear is that with Le onard's abilities as a goalkeeper Vincent's ragtag team has a chance to reach the finals. For that to happen for the team to find a reason to rally behind this strange kid from Paris Vincent will have to let down his guard and open his heart for the first time ever.
Title: The Penalty Area
Author(s): Gillot Alain
Publisher: Europa Editions
Barcode: 9781609453534
Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Date: 9/6/2016
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: A heart - warming novel about overcoming adversity making human connections and football. Vincent once had a shot at becoming a professional soccer player but a career - ending knee injury put an end to his dreams. A tough kid from a poor family he has become an emotionally cut - off man with frustrated hopes and limited options. He finds himself coaching an under - 16 soccer club in an attempt to keep alive his only passion in life. The team he coaches is little more than a roster of hot - headed boys none of whom understands the on - field chemistry needed to win. Simply put they aren t of a championship calibre. When his unemployed sister Madeleine a single mother dumps her thirteen - year - old son on him Vincent panics. With no clue how to take care of a teenager he brings his nephew to practice and eventually throws him into the scrimmage. It's then that Vincent notices there's something strange about Le onard. He has a preternatural ability for anticipating each striker's intentions making him a remarkably talented goalkeeper. But Le onard looks detached absent lost. Le onard has undiagnosed Asperger's syndrome. What is equally clear is that with Le onard's abilities as a goalkeeper Vincent's ragtag team has a chance to reach the finals. For that to happen for the team to find a reason to rally behind this strange kid from Paris Vincent will have to let down his guard and open his heart for the first time ever.
Title: The Penalty Area
Author(s): Gillot Alain
Publisher: Europa Editions
Barcode: 9781609453534
Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Date: 9/6/2016
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
