Like lightning you strike fast and free legs zoom down field eyes fixed on the checkered ball on the goal ten yards to go can't nobody stop you can't nobody cop you ... Nobody can stop Nick Hall—he's a star on the soccer team, cruising in school and getting ready to ask out the girl of his dreams. But then a bombshell announcement shatters his world. Follow Nick's next moves in this electric and heartfelt novel-in-verse by Kwame Alexander that bends and breaks as it captures all the thrills and setbacks, action and emotion, of a World Cup match!