User:LoCs33/draft of keeper

Characters

 * El Gato: the greatest goalkeeper of his time. He gets taught how to be a keeper. He wins a world cup then quits soccer and becomes a naturalist.
 * Keeper: the ghost that keeps goal(former soccer player). This guy is from a team that got lost in the forest because there plane fell down.
 * Paul Faustino: an interviewer. He interviews El Gato they spent 2 days and one night together and then decide to do the interview as a book.
 * Mom: El Gatos mom. She does not think that soccer is worth while. She thinks that its just another dump sport. She wants her son to have a real job like a doctor or something of that nature.
 * Dad: El Gatos dad. He is more of the go with the flow kind of person. He thinks that whatever his son wants to do is okay with him.

Plot Summary
Paul Faustino, a journalist for La Nation, is interviewing El Gato about his last world cup. At the interview, El Gato starts telling him about his teenage years. When El Gato tells Faustino that he is being coached by a ghost, Faustino thinks El Gato is lying to him. Faustino thinks that he is just playing a prank on him, but at the same time El Gato seems honest and looks like he is telling the truth. El Gato tells the interviewer that he is going to work with his dad, but he does not tell the keeper that he is no longer going to come to practice. The first Saturday at work he finds out that his co-workers play a game of soccer after work. His co-workers invite him to play as the keeper and in his first game he helps his team win. The next Saturday he plays a new player who comes to the camp to play with the other team. The players call him "El Ladron" meaning "the thief", but in reality he is really a director for a soccer camp named DSJ. He also brings the owners of the team Mr. and Mrs. DA Silva. What they want is to sign up El Gato for 2 years and give him 10,000 dollars. Then El Gato told Paul Faustino what happened that fateful afternoon. Then he explains to him what happened in the last cup he got and how he cheated in the last penalty. El Gato tells Faustino that he wants this to be a book instead of an interview. Yet Faustino does not agree with this, because he has to give this interview to his boss. But he changes his mind and helps El Gato turn his interview into a book. El Gato eventually just quits soccer and becomes a naturalist. At the end El Gato explains where the goalkeeper came from and explains all about him and his team.

reseptions
"Read The Game" is refering to the book describing a lot of games in specific details. It describes even the smallest movement in the soccer game, "keeper is an attempt to write magically about football" Jan Mark 2003       "keeper" Jan Mark www.guardian.co

reference
peet, mal. "keeper." candlewick press . In the book there are things that are not scientifically explained.