Gilbert Chevalier’s life is a mid-century miracle: wealthy, handsome, beloved by every woman he meets and blessed with incomparable talents on the soccer field. And it’s all about to end...Gil’s father makes him swear off the sport, to focus on his studies. When he leaves the bourgeois comforts of Port-au-Prince high society and moves to the streets of Harlem to attend Columbia University, the promise is broken. Scrimmaging in Central Park, he’s spotted by the U.S. National Team’s coach and is recruited to play for the Americans in the 1950 World Cup in Brazil. From the Caribbean to the States, to South America and back, Gil’s adventures are lush and lurid and delivered with a breathless, breakneck pace synonymous with the world’s most popular sport.