{"subjects": ["Soccer coaches", "Patients", "Asperger's syndrome", "Families", "Uncles", "Soccer goalkeepers", "Fiction", "Fiction, general", "France, fiction"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Vincent once had a shot at becoming a professional soccer player, but a career-ending injury put an end to his dreams. A tough kid from a poor family, he has become an emotionally cut-off man with frustrated hopes and limited options. He finds himself coaching an under-16 soccer club in an attempt to keep alive his only passion in life. The team he coaches is little more than a roster of hotheaded boys, none of whom understands the on-field chemistry needed to win. Simply put, they aren't of a championship caliber. When his unemployed sister Madeleine, a single mother, dumps her thirteen-year-old son on him, Vincent panics. With no clue how to take care of a teenager, he brings his nephew to practice and eventually throws him into the scrimmage. It's then that Vincent notices there's something strange about L\u00e9onard. He has a preternatural ability for anticipating each striker's intentions, making him a remarkably talented goalkeeper, but he seems detached, absent, lost. It becomes clear that L\u00e9onard has undiagnosed Asperger's syndrome, and also that, with L\u00e9onard's abilities as a goalkeeper, Vincent's ragtag team has a chance to reach the finals. For that to happen, for the team to find a reason to rally behind this strange kid from Paris, Vincent will have to let down his guard and open his heart for the first time ever"}, "key": "/works/OL20036869W", "title": "The penalty area", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL1131441A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [13073866], "latest_revision": 3, "revision": 3, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-07-19T16:25:59.436970"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-01-15T05:38:59.301420"}}