Daniel is an exceptional footballer. Julio is the team’s captain, a born leader. They were raised as brothers and play football in their slum, La Ceniza. Daniel dreams to play professional football while Julio feeds the family with dirty money; he has no time to dream. The opportunity of their lives arrives when a football scout invites them to tryout with the city’s best team: Caracas Football Club. But tragedy strikes them. They must choose, on a dirty football pitch, what is more important: family, revenge or the dream of their lives. –São Paulo International Film Festival
Despite its unconvincing attempts at gritty realism, just as forced and predictable as any Hollywood melodrama. It combines the tired cliches of both the life on the streets drama and the sports movie in the most obvious ways imaginable, at times the gooey sentimentality is just laughable. It is well shot, but that's about it.
