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    The Penalty Area

    By Alain Gillot

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    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 Léonard. He has a preternatural ability for anticipating each striker’s intentions, making him a remarkably talented goalkeeper. But Léonard looks detached, absent, lost. Léonard has undiagnosed Asperger’s syndrome. What is equally clear is that, with Léonard’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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEuropa Editions
    Release dateSep 8, 2016
    ISBN9781787700345
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    The Penalty Area
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    Alain Gillot

    Alain Gillot is a French journalist, screenwriter, and comic book author. The Penalty Area is his first novel.

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