Frequent, harsh language and the rape of a foreign exchange student make this book a “High School only” soccer story.  Our protagonist is Jonny, a second-rate soccer player dealing with unpopularity, abandonment by his father, and the death of a former girlfriend.  Jonny is constantly falling short of his friend Kyle, who is athletic and smart.  As often happens in books, as in real life, we learn that the popular students who seem to have everything going for them, have their weaknesses revealed by the end of the story.