The Footballest

About the movie

Paco is a 11 years-old boy nicknamed Pakete after failing five penalty kicks in five games consecutively who lives in the town of Soto Alto with his parents, patrol police Emilio and antiquarian/passionate soccer lover Juana, and with his teen older brother Víctor. Member of the Soto Alto's school soccer team with his friends Camuñas, Tomeo, Marilyn, Angustias, Ocho, Toni and Anita, and trained by the good-intention but incompetent coaches Felipe and Alicia, Pakete's life worsen after his classroom partner and beauty neighbor Helena (who secretly is Pakete's love interest) joins to the team: Laura, Anita's mother and school's vice-principal, hates the soccer and she wants undo the team to change it by a child chorus if the team downgrades to a lower category; in addition, Helena's parents are filing for divorce and if the team misses, Helena's father will get the custody and take her away. Trying to win the remaining soccer games to save the situation, in one of them the referee fall asleep mysteriously and he's replaced by Gordillo, another referee who make them lose the game with his bad-manners. When in the next game the referee too fall asleep and Gordillo appears again to make lose by second time, Helena reunites the team in an abandoned house to talk about her suspects that the games were put-up. At the same time that Pakete discovers that Helena is dating with Toni, the team investigates the case just to learn that Laura's mother seems to be conspiring with Chacón, coach of the rival team Islantilla. Looking for evidences to prove their suspects and investigating too the referee Gordillo believing that he's part of the conspiracy, Pakete and his friends will live an adventure full of fun where friendship and family will be the most important prize to win.—Chockys