“Honestly, I wanted to punch you, more than once.” When the person you idolized as a child becomes your coach, it is supposed to be the greatest event in your life. The key word is “supposedly.” Less than a week has passed since twenty-seven-year-old Sal Casillas began to wonder what she had even seen in the icon of world football. Why did she have his posters hanging on her wall, and why did she imagine how she would get married and give birth to his children - super football players. Sal had long ago experienced the worst breakup of all imaginary relationships with a man who did not even know about her existence. She did not expect that exactly the same Rainer Kulti would come to her team for the season: quiet and reserved, a shadow of the explosive, passionate man he once was.