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In the South American jungle a young boy meets and is coached by a mysterious, ghostly footballer. In time, he becomes a famous famous professional goalkeeper known as 'El Gato' - 'The Cat' - and wins the World Cup. 'Keeper' takes the form a narrative as'El Gato' relates these experiences to a sports journalist.
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Young Adult Fiction, Fiction, Coming of age, Interpersonal relations, Soccer, Soccer stories, Juvenile fiction, Soccer players, Paul Faustino (Fictitious character), Sportswriters, Soccer goalkeepers, Soccer, fiction, Children's fiction, Bildungsromans, Interpersonal relations, fiction, Brazil, fiction, Sportsmen and sportswomen, Sports stories, Ghosts, Supernatural, South america, fiction, Sports, fictionPlaces
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An extraordinary novel, winner of the Branford Boase Award and the Bronze Nestle Children's Book Prize.Paul Faustino, South America's top sports writer, sits opposite the man they call El Gato – the Cat – the world's greatest goalkeeper. On the table between them stands the World Cup... In the hours that follow, El Gato tells his incredible story – how he, a poor logger's son, learns to become a World Cup-winning goalkeeper so good he is almost unbeatable. And the most remarkable part of this story is the man who teaches him – the mysterious Keeper, who haunts a football pitch at the heart of the claustrophobic forest...
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