Three stories about futbol from Chile. In the first story during a soccer game a Carlos doing a header gets hurt, and ends up in the hospital. He plays for a third division team and works as a carpenter during the day. A local hood, Don Angel,tells him that a higher division team is interested in him and that he should drop by his office. He offers him money to score no goals on Sunday. Catlos takes the deal.
The crowd is excited on Sunday as the local team goes for the Cup. Catlos has some chances but doesn't finis, on purpose. The crowd soon turns on him. But in the end he can't resist : he scores and Don Angel walks out. Later Alex gets beat up but I think it was worth it to him.
In the second story set in Calama, some young boys want to see a local pro game but can't get in. A ball sales over the wall and the boys take it and run with it. They soon start playing with it. Pablo's mother has to pawn their last item of value, a picture of the Last Supper. On the way home he gets involved in an all day soccer game. Somehow he lost the money from the pawn shop but they won the game. He ends up pawning his new ball to make up for the loss.
In the last segment Francisco, a boy from Santiago, is stuck out on remote island of Chile on the same day that Chile has to play a qualifying match with Germany for the World Cup. The only TV around is at the house of the Ceron sisters. Most of the males in the town gather at the house to watch the match. Meanwhile the older sisters plot to spend some quality time with young Francisco and the sisters get all made up. The men sit transfixed in front of the grainy little TV with the picture going in and out with the storm. Germany scores. The TV goes out and a drunken Francisco climbs the roof to fix the antenna. When he comes down one of the sisters takes him in to get out of his wet clothes and Chile scores to tie the game.
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