With plenty of wit, heart and insider knowledge, Frank Goosen tells the story of a rebellious youth football team, an eventful season in the district league and three men who learn more from eleven teenagers than they ever thought possible.
Football is not Förster’s thing. So he’s skeptical at first when his friend Fränge takes over coaching a youth football team and asks him to help. He agrees – after all, it’s really about repairing Fränge’s relationship with his son Alex, who plays on the team. A teacher, Brocki, gives them hands-on pedagogical support and, before long, is on the pitch with them twice a week. They realize that they’ve vastly underestimated the task: the pubescent boys walk all over them, and they have to deal with the players’ opinionated parents, dubious rival coaches and blinkered referees. But, on the pitch and in the locker room, a community is gradually coalescing that is about much more than a relegation battle.
