![]() ![]() This is cruel, but perhaps more practical than betting the money on a future in soccer. Santiago has some money saved, but his dad ( Tony Plana) nicks it to buy a pickup truck and start his own landscaping business. That would however involve an air ticket to England. Then he's spotted by a former soccer pro ( Stephen Dillane), who tells him he has potential, and arranges for him to get a tryout with Newcastle United. He plays Santiago Munez, a busboy in a Los Angeles Chinese restaurant, who plays in an after-work soccer league so deprived that he wears cardboard shin protectors. ![]() ![]() The starring performance by Kuno Becker is convincing and dimensional and we begin to care for him. The movie works because it is, above all, sincere. ![]()
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