Tony Bradman 
Bad Boys [EPUB ebook] 

Sometimes – to survive – you have to FIGHT! Each year, City FC – known as 'the Hawks’ – take on a group of thirteen-year-olds for the first tier of their special soccer school: training sessions in the evenings and weekends for truly talented players who are aiming to become professional players. It’s a glamorous, exciting future for the few who succeed – with huge rewards. But the failure rate is also high – BAD BOYS, the second in the series, highlights a conflict between two players who want to play in the same position: Ben, who wants to be accepted as 'one of the lads’, even if it means behaving badly; and Lee, who fights to make his own decisions, only to realize he’s made the wrong choices…