Mal Peet 
Keeper [EPUB ebook] 

An extraordinary debut novel, winner of the Branford Boase Award and the Bronze Nestle Children’s Book Prize.Paul Faustino, South America’s top sports writer, sits opposite the man they call El Gato — the Cat — the world’s greatest goalkeeper. On the table between them stands the World Cup… In the hours that follow, El Gato tells his incredible story — how he, a poor logger’s son, learns to become a World Cup-winning goalkeeper so good he is almost unbeatable. And the most remarkable part of this story is the man who teaches him — the mysterious Keeper, who haunts a football pitch at the heart of the claustrophobic forest…