After an overlong set-up, matters are brought to a head when Ari’s lucky soccer card disappears from his backpack. In addition to sexism, this event brings out other themes, including the value of preparation and the importance of putting your team first. Mac and Ari’s friendship is tested when a girl, Parker Llewellyn, the daughter of a hard-driving soccer dad, makes it onto the team. The son of an indifferent single mother and unknown father, Mac, who is their team captain, social top-dog and star player, is loosey-goosey cool, a bundle of pure natural talent. His best friend, Jerry Mac MacDonald, is cut from a different cloth entirely. Before he plays a game, he goes through a series of obsessive rituals designed to maximize his good fortune. A tense, superstitious, hardworking boy learns that luck is generated from the inside out.Īri Fish, 12, the younger son in a supportive but educationally ambitious family, is obsessed with soccer and luck.
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