Boys Soccer Club (2009) - full transcript
In the nineteen seventies, right after Brazil became three times world champion, the best outfit for kids to play soccer was to wear a pair of Kichute, a simple soccer tennis shoes made with cleats on the sole. Every kid in the village who wants to be part of the boys soccer club had to wear them. And that throws Beto into a right of passage test. He has to prove he's ready to face his own problems at his school's bulling attacks, his soccer games rematch against kids from other villages, and most important, he has to deal with his father's demand, who wants him to go to work after school instead of playing soccer. Beto's passion for his dreams drives him through a teen adventure to become a boy growing up with an unforgettable life experience.
Moral and Civic Education
You talk too much.
Let's play the game.
I won!
I'm telling you, I lack the head of
Gen. Geisel for completing my album.
I doubt. I only know two
kids who completed that album.
I won, loser.
Loser?... You are lost.
I won!
Again?
I've won twelve.
You quit or what?
Play the game.
Are you gonna cry, loser?
Hum... think you're afraid.
- You'll lose.
- Barriga is afraid.
You owe me fifteen stickers.
I don't want torn stickers.
Come on, pay him the stickers.
I can't believe I won. I started
the game with no stickers.
What did you say?
What's wrong?
I won playing the game.
Give them all back to me.
You're cheating.
- Why?
- A fine.
You can't play the game without
any stickers. You have to pay fifteen.
You did not created a rule
before we started.
Come on, give my fifteen
stickers back. I want them Now!
I'll give you five.
I said fifteen, didn't you
hear me?
What if I don't give tnem to you?
A fight!
I want to see blood!
Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
The Bacalhaus are here!
Stop it. Wanna fight? Cool.
But here we have rules.
We're the class of Rui Barbosa!
The man, spits here.
The real man steps on here.
Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Ih, Ze Luiz is the wife of Beto!
He is a Lady. He is a Lady.
The bell rang twice. Everybody
go to classroom, hurry up. Go.
Beto, why didn't you face him?
- Because my Dad would find out I was in a game.
- Who as going to tell?!
The Director! I can't believe you Ze.
...the devil has his tools.
That's why Jesus said:
"What is the point to gain
the world and lose your soul" ?
And with these words I enclose
this sermon, I invite you all..
You were playing in the meeting?
How many times have I told you?
Brother. Brother Lazaro!
How are you?
I am doing fine.
I bought all the material,
when can you paint my house?
- Did you buy impermeable fluid?
- The imperm...?
Yes, we bought.
The one in the yellow can.
Oh, right! If it wasn't for this woman in my life.
What would I do?
Behind every great man,
there's a great woman!
Beside, sister, beside.
Sister Maria, Jacira is beside,
behind, in front, right sweetheart?
I can't wait to see our house painted,
with that smell of something new.
Listen brother, if you need anything
you can ask me I am home all day.
Good evening.
Thank you brother.
Hey you up there? Are you ok?
My ear is burning.
You never learn, huh?
I was about to beat my record, Rosa,
five days without being punished.
But you didn't see the
meeting was over?
What's wrong play a little bit?
I was winning...
And besides, the only thing
I do well is to play sticker.
But you don't play soccer?
Yes I do, but I am
always chosen last.
Maria after we came to this house
things started getting better, huh?
And when will we have peace?
We'll get better Maria.
Believe me.
You will se me with fourteen
painters all working for me
And then we will have
much more money ...
I've heard that before. As you start
making money, starts the debts too.
I never seen it.
We have to do savings!
Save money how? The money I make
hardly cover our expenses.
It's like my father used to say:
if we have fourteen jobs,
we'll have fifteen necessities!
You eat like a chick and
shit like a duck!
I eat like a chick?
Rosa, see if Ismael peed in
the bed and change him.
- Bye son.
- Bye dad.
Clean the house, Rosa.
Aren't you going to
school today, Rosa?
Today is school holiday, pisser.
In the house of Mrs. Leonor
they have butter.
But here is not the home
of Mrs. Leonor.
Put fat, it's the same thing. The
important thing is not to stay behind.
Right Rosa?
Let's play with them!?
Play? We're going to have fun, Ismael.
But isin't it the same thing?
Of course not, having fun is much better!
What is that noise?
Noise of cans!
Beto, you forgotten? Today is
the game against Barriga's team.
At least, today, the game
doesn't start without me.
It is not going to be easy.
Barriga's team is tough.
They are organized. They will
buy uniforms, a new ball...
That is why we must also
begin to get organized.
Why don't we start a club?
Good Ideia!
Ah, I know, how about
"Cebolinha Club"!
I already saw that cartoon stuff on tv.
How about "The Champions
of Ivai Street?"
No way!... Barriga's team also
lives on Ivai Street.
But they live in the end of the street
and they don't have kichutes.
Those fleabags play barefoot.
But not us! We use kichute!
Yes! " The Boys in Kichute"
Beto, so now just you are
having fun, how about me?
You are milk-tooth, little brother.
Lets go. Lets go.
Bye Ismael.
I know. Whom scores first,
becomes president!
Really? .. and goalkeeper is out?
You have to score too.
You can score from
goal kick.
It's not fair. Not even your father scored
from goal kick.
Catch penalty kick is
worth a score, then?
So be the goalkeeper,
hot shot.
See you later alligator.
After a while crocodile.
We thought the
sissies wouldn't come?
Look at this retarded.
You brought the stickers?
Here.
Four time score, we change
sides, eight ends the game.
Two time score, we change sides. We
play with no shirts on. Let's go team.
We start with the ball.
Beto! Get out of the game.
Hey Beto? It seems you are
killing cockroach...
- Edvaldo! Get home now!
- I'll have to go.
- Put someone in his place.
- The phantom of the bagger that died here?
It is not safe evoke spirit
from another world.
So what? You afraid.
You don't get afraid?
Huh, me? No, I don't.
Lets' penalty kick. Lets
decide the game by penaltys.
That is it, captain!
One, two, three, four, five, six...
I'll run over the goalkeeper.
Huh? I am not the keeper anymore.
Why not Silvahir?
They'll kick hard, if the ball hits
in my face, mother kills me.
Mothers aren't easy.
What do we do now?
You shit in your hands
and play if away.
I will be the goalkeeper.
Beto? He's not even
able to catch a cold.
Go. Hurry your Kick.
That kid plays soccer well, huh?
If the game ties, the victory is ours.
If you score, you win. If I
catch, the victory is ours.
Silvanir! Want to
go back as goalkeeper?
No one is gonna catch.
I am the goalkeeper now!
Get ready, Goalkeeper?!...
Watch your nose!
Pilico, lay out your toe.
Give a hot kick!
Pilico, you faggot!
The other day, he kicked a
ball like a professional.
My father!
When the boys play again?
Tomorrow they come again,
and the day after.
They come they every
single day in the afternoon.
They don't come in the morning
because they are at school.
Investors want to
boy everything here.
Why sell? Everyone is
happy here, Luizinho.
We have what we need to live well.
I just need my music,
my friends and rum to get hot!
You took the medicine?
What for? Let it go, Luizinho.
I have heart of a child's.
Huh?!
Our class of Moral and Civic Education
will be on today's professions.
I want to know what the father
of each one of you does.
For the next class, I want an essay on
what each one of you wants to be
when you grow up.
It is with the work of each one of you
that we build a great BRA...
...ZIL!
Valquria!
My father is a nurse.
Great. Ze Luiz?
My father is businessman.
Aroldinho!
My mother is a secretary.
Teacher? Can I go to restroom?
No Edivaldo. You've just come
back from break! Silvanir?
My father has a butcher shop.
Nelson!
My father is a bus driver.
- Roberto!
- My father is a painter.
His father is the brother
of Teroba!
Teroba's Brother?
Who is Teroba?
Silence! I don't want anyone
mocking a classmate.
There is no discrimination here.
We are all Brazil!
...lians!
- Cleide!
- My father is a bricklayer.
- Hiroshi!
- My father works in the bank.
- Claudio?
- My father is military!
Each one of you should take pride in the
profession of your father
Then design your own profile
which may be the same as your parents
or find your own profession.
This is the task for the next class.
Dna Terezinha? Edivaldo did pee here.
It did wet my tennis shoes.
Edivaldo, how many times, I have to repeat:
if you need to go to the restroom, just ask!
Hi sweetie! You're here?
What will you be when
you grow up?
I don't know.
Isn't it weird? "What will you be
when you grow up?" You already are, No?
You are funny.
Everything is funny when
it isn't with us, Beto!
Go to Tanaka's store and purchase a
pound of coffee and a bottle of rum.
Why do I have to hide the bottle?
Because people don't have to
to know everything about our lives! Got it?
Today is saturday, Luizinho is asleep.
Take this coin, it is for you.
You don't have to.
Stop being silly. You need to buy
your stickers.
Beto.
- Don't let anyone see it.
- The stickers?
The bottle, Beto.
Beto, are you going to buy
cachaça to Mrs. Leonor?
It is none of your business.
- I am going with you.
- Ok.
Will you keep the ball, goalkeeper?
Sonia, throw the ball.
Give me two packs of stickers.
Of album Brazil Beloved Fatherland!
Ah, very well.
Take the money Mr. Tanaka.
I'll take the pack of coffee.
Look the retards, Pilico,
invading our territory!
You are! Come from the end
of the street to do what here?
You are full of it, huh?
I want to see you playing soccer!
I can handle ten like you!
Hey Kids, come here.
Everybody come here.
Listen, my name is Jaide, but everyone
in the club knows me by Xaveco.
I am the Nacional Atletico
Club talent hunter.
I've already discovered some players
for the national soccer team.
After the state championship ends,
we'll test boys for the youth team.
You boy here and you too, you
play well enough to pass.
Boy, if you want to be goalkeeper,
this is your chance. You have Style!
And it will have room for all three?
We have room for whom
plays soccer well.
Did you hear it, japanese boy?
Let me go now, it's late.
Go back to play.
You believe him?
And if he is like Robertao?
Robertao is a crook.
Pardal already played in
the team of Robertao.
- Your mother.
- Yours.
I know a kid who did a test
on the team of Robertao.
Passed?
He passed a week without
being able to sit down!
Don't run Ze Luiz.
Hey dad, did you
buy my soccer schoes?
They are with Sonia, kid. You
better score now croocked foot.
Dad, I was born stricker.
Kid, in my time, I did score
goals with my barefoot toe.
I was known as the goat's foot.
Used to score from goal kick.
Hi. How's it going?
- Bought the lemon?
- Yes.
Hurry up. I am starving.
Beto, you going to
Saint John's party?
My father doesn't allow.
Why?
Because in my church, Saint John's party,
children's day and birthday party aren't allowed.
Sonia, my daughter.
Each person lives his own way
we have nothing to do
with it. Right Beto?
But I think you are at the age to get out
and dance, enjoy music. Don't you think?
Let's go Sonia.
Hurry up, I am standing here like a hungry lion!
Beto, look at this
soccer shoes that I won.
Nice soccer shoes! Now you just
need new shorts to match!
What for? This one is not good.
Ze Luiz, why you wear cheap shorts?
My mother made it for me.
Beto, you are going for the test
at Nacional Club, right?
Huh, the soccer test?
You are going, right?
I think not.
I think not? You are crazy, Beto?
This is your chance!
Remember what Xaveco said: "You
have style!" Talk to your father.
No way! I won't raise a
child to become a keeper.
Soccer players end up in misery!
Think of Garrincha.
And Pele...?
Pele isn't a keeper!
Garrincha neither.
Some goalkeeper became rich!
Since when you
understand about soccer?
Just assume, Beto. You get
hurt practicing at this club.
And then they
bring you home crippled.
Who is going to feed you?
Will they put food in your mouth?
Painting walls is also risky.
Is it sin that he has a dream?
My daughter, it's not a good dream!
Even the Bible doesn't approve it.
Bible forbids to be a goalkeeper?
Did they have any soccer
in the time of the Bible?
Of course not!
Beto. In Galatians 5:26 says:
"Let us not become egotistical, stirring
up competition with one another".
Soccer is competition.
God is against competition.
To God everyone is equal, to
God there is not a champion.
If is time for you to choose. Who do
you prefer: God or the world?
God.
So I don't want to hear about it, and
if I hear it again, you will be whipped.
Are we clear?
There's more, Maria, from tomorrow,
this kid is going to work with me.
Soccer Player?.... It gives no future.
Maria, give me a cup of coffee.
In our last lesson, I asked you to
do an essay on the theme
"What I want to be when I grow up?"
Has Everybody done it?
Me did not do it.
"I" did not do it! And why didn't you?
"I" didn't do it because I dont know
what I want to be when I grow up.
He will be a drunk,
as his father is!
Silence!
Go to the punishment
facing the wall, now!
Valquiria?
I want to be a doctor who
takes care of the heart.
They have many challenges
and earn lots of money.
If I don't become a doctor, I
want to be a singer or a dancer.
Very good, Valquiria.
Roberto, read your writing.
Me?
Have we another Roberto here?
- I didn't do it.
- Make something up.
What's happening back there?
Read your writing!
What I want to be when I grow up.
Like Uncle Teroba!
Silence! Claudio go to Dean's office, now!
Aroldo make sure He goes there.
Roberto continue your reading.
My father is a painter. I don't know why
but sometimes it seems that he likes it
and I also want to do
something that like
and what I most like to do is play soccer,
so I want to become a goalkeeper.
Very well! So you want to be
goalkeeper when you grow up?
I want to be goalkeeper now!
When I grow up I want to be the
Brazilian National Team goalkeeper!
It is good to know that
you have a dream.
Teacher. What you wanted to be
when you grew up?
Me? I... want...well...
Can I go to the bathroom?
- Go Edivaldo!
- Yes.
Sandro?
My father is a bricklayer, but when I
grow up I want to be a famous astronaut
I will travel to space and will step
in the... at the...
... on the moon.
I don't understand my own writing.
Beto, you know what I think
about leaving food on the plate.
Why you are not eating?
He might be with worms.
Worm!
He lacks punishment.
My stomach hurts.
Maria, bring me
a cup of water, please.
And you stop whining.
Table is a place to eat.
You want to groan, go to bed!
You don't have fever,
but better buy you a purge.
I know. Just talk about work
and the kid gets sick.
I don't know whose
inheritance is it.
You'll stay at home, but if know you
went out, I'll whip you!
Are we understood, Beto?
Yes Sir.
Drop me off at the church,
I planned to do Bible study.
Lets go. I am already late.
Are you feeling better?
I think so.
Beto, you are burning in fever.
Give him purge.
Maria, can you
get my blue shirt, please?
Are you going out?
Yeah.
Where to?
Go to work! Huh?
And you have to put a new
shirt to go work?
If I need not, why would I ask?
Ok, I'm not the boss here, anyway.
Rosa, you think that one day
we will go to a party?
Uncle Rogerio said that If I want,
he leads me on his birthday party.
When I become professional keeper,
you'll have a big party, you'll see.
But father said, it's not for you to think
about it anymore! He beats you.
Father said. If I'm like him, I will spend
the rest of my life just watching
while others have fun.
So stop only watching...
I hate gossip, Lazaro, but
there is a rumor in the city,
they are talking so that you
and the wife of Alcione...
There is talking, huh?
Yeap.
People talk too much,
Agenor, talk too much!
Hey old rooster!
- Good evening.
- Good evening, Lazaro.
Why are you so late?
Maria, I was with Agenor,
you can ask him.
Let me know you visit that bitch,
I'll kill you! You know me!
I'm working so we have a better life.
Alcione gave me a few contacts,
I'm looking for more painters.
Take the opportunity and put another
painter to finish the house of Jacira.
I applied for that government housing
plan. They are going to deliver soon.
It's far, but will be ours.
And then, if by chance I'm gone,
you and the children will have a place.
Get away from me!
Ah, Maria.
Get away from me because I can't.
Fuck!
Dad will earn more money!
Dream on... It is free.
It's not time to be awake!
I don't want any more talking.
Piu, piu, piu...
Can someone go get the Ball?
You go get it.
You are the goalkeeper!
Are you afraid?
I'll help you, Beto.
Hey guys, I am attacking him.
Ah you develish kid!
Are you here again?
If you break my window once again,
I'm going to tell to your father.
Little piece of shit.
You were playing soccer, huh?
Me? Just a little bit.
Beto, why do you insist doing that?
Before, I was a nobody in the Field.
Now, they choose me first.
Why do you want to be number one?
Do you like being the number two?
Go to Tanaka's store and buy
some peanuts for your mother.
Look.
Gigarrets with filter are twenty, without
is ten. Naked woman cards only here.
Look that hairy stuff, dude!
Hey, give me three cigarrets.
How about that sex magazine?
I am hunting for it. I'ts going
to cost you lots of Money.
It doesn't matter.
Mrs Florinda is coming, be carefull.
What's happening here?
If I get you boys bringing that again,
I'm taking you to the dean's Office
Did you uderstand me?
Oh breed with no custom.
And these are the names of the
men that shall stand with you:
of the tribe of Reuben;
Elizur the son of Shedeur.
Of Simeon; Shelumiel
the son of Zurishaddai.
Of Judah; Nahshon the
son of Amminadab.
Amminadab.
...the son of Amminadab, Of Issachar:
Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
Ok. ok. Now let Beto read.
You were not paying attention Beto?
Can I read?
Yes you can. Here son.
The son of Ammi... Ammi...
God's friends
They are all friends of Moses,
of Samson and of the birds.
That's my boy. Very intelligent.
Beto is intelligent too.
He's got eighty in the math test.
Oh Yeah?
Dad, you promissed to let me go to
the movies if I did well in the test.
- Did I say that?
- Yes, you did.
And how much does that crap cost?
Only two for the matinee.
And what kind of movie is showing?
It's a film for kids.
I want to go too!
Yeah? Did you get eighty in the test?
No, but if I went to your school,
I would get two hundred.
See?
I remember I wanted a new dress, but
never told her, we were very poor.
But I saw those girls the
parties dressed beautifully
It wasn't Christmas, birthday, nothing,
and my mom bought me a new dress
Beautifull, the most beautifull
dress I ever got.
The funny thing is.
She felt happier than I did.
It seemed that
she had won the dress.
It feels good to give.
Someday He is going to
get in real trouble
That not even his father is going
to be able to help him.
Hey you two. Go way back
there and get on line.
Tomorrow we are going to the car
junk yard, Gamba is meeting us there.
Yes. it's going to be a good deal.
Netherlands was the opponent
team Brazil most feared.
Barely started the game and
kepeer Leao already saved a ball.
Brazilian fans could see that the players
were feeling the responsability of the game.
Mister Roberto, how
are you doing at school?
I am doing well.
Are you learning much things?
Yes, sir.
Like this calendar! That is what
you are learning at school?
I work all day painting walls
and driving the taxi at night
So you can go to school to learn
but instead give me a grief?
You're gonna learn to be a good boy,
in a good way or in a hard way.
No father.
And today it is going to be
the hard way.
- No!
- Be quiet.
Stop it. It's hurting me.
Is delicious your yogurt, son?
Yes.
Beto, come here darling, come.
Sit down.
- Everything allrignt?
- Yeap.
Take it.
Do you like it? Try it on.
Mrs Leonor, did you know there is
two ways to tie a kichute?
- Really?
- Yeap.
Which way do you prefer?
When I go to school,
I tie above my ankles
but when I go to a soccer field, I tie
underneath, it holds it tighter.
To use kichute, you
have to use your skills.
Wow!
Thank you Mrs Leonor! Mom.
Hey Beto, have you forgot? We have
meeting at the car junk yard, today.
I forgot about it, but I'll be thefe.
See you there.
No more oil. Go to Tanaka
and buy a can of oil for me.
Why leave everything to last minute?
You've to wait until it finishes?
Then will only have
salad for entry.
For me it is ok.
Also need oil for salad!
Is it going to hurt you get up from
that chair and go to the store?
Can't I have some quality
time at the lunch hour?
Hey dad.
Beto. Go to Tanaka's store and buy
oil for your mother.
But dad, look what Mrs Leonor...
Hurry up, hurry up.
Rosa, help me, please!
What happened?
I have to meet Ze Luiz.
It is important. Please help me.
What do you want me to do?
Go to Tanaka's and buy
an oil can for Mom.
I am late. I have to
help Mom to fix lunch.
Will you do it for me, please Rosa?
Ok, but don't take too long.
I will run really fast. Thank you Rosa.
Wow... a 68 DKW.
It must have got here last night.
- Do you think the driver died?
- Of course not. It is not so wrecked.
It looks like Beto's father's car.
Where is Gamba?
Look at Beto's new kichute!
Lets mark it off.
Stop it. My new kichute! Stop it.
Look at your father's car.
It's an old piece of wreck!
Hey Sir Driver I want to
go on a trip to Sao Paulo.
Do you have any money? A trip
to Sao Paulo is more expensive.
So what? I am rich. Lets go, move on.
Drive me to Sao Raulo.
Ok, Uncle Scrooge McDuck,
get your wallet ready.
Stop! It's the police!
Car registration?
Hey Sir Police Oficer,
you want documents?
- Yes. Hurry up.
- Just a minute.
Hurry up, I said!
- What did I do?
- Documents, now.
What kind of magazine is that?
Gee. What's that?
It's a pussy! In Sao Paulo we...
Sao Paulo? Pussy is all the same.
It is just like that, I've already seen it.
Me too.
I've seen many of them.
Yeah? I doubt it, Beto
Where did you see it?
On TV. Amaral Neto's
Program about Indians.
I saw it too, the one about Xingu.
But their pussy didn't have any hair.
Hey Boys, what have you
there for me?
Gamba, take a look.
Rosa wait. My wife left. There
is a customer coming in soon.
I am not able to get that can of wax,
you could help me, you are healthy.
Do you need help?
Yes, please, if I fall from there,
hit my head on the floor.
It is that red one overthere?
Yes. Please.
We have album stickers.
Look at this one.
This magazine is
our most especial one.
How much?
This magazine is not for sale!
But...
We can rent it for you.
You will have to pay the equivalent
of fifty chewing gums.
Fifty?... Are those pussy made
out of gold? I will pay twenty.
Hi whimper.
Hey, that magazine is ours!
- It was. Now it is mine!
- Any problem?
Give it back to me.
"Give it back to me."
Get out. I'm going
to release the dog.
Go. Go. Run!
Lets go get them!
Hi Tanaka. How are you?
- Fine.
- How much do I owe you?
You owe me nothing. It's all paid out.
You know Sir. I don't find it fine you
ask my daughter to lift weight here.
She has a back problem, she suffers
from the column, she will have pain
No. I only asked her to get a
wax can up there on the shelf.
That one up there, huh? You pervert!
What're you thinking, huh?
Where is Beto?
Stupid boy!
It's not my fault. He was running
too fast. I couldn't stop.
I saw him. He passed in front
of my house running.
Do you think he is dead?
He is breathing.
Bad weed the frost doesn't kill.
What's your name boy?
Where's my new kichute?
His name is Beto. He's the son
of the painter at Ivai street.
I know his family. I will tell them.
I'm taking him to the local hospital.
I can't handle it anymore. The boy
crossed all the limits in this house.
He put his sister in risk
because of that stupid game
And he will put the family in risk because
he is obsessed for that damn thing.
Maria.
Hi there!
Yes?
Are you Beto's father?
What did he do now?
He was hit by my car.
He was what?
He was running too fast.
I couldn't stop the car.
It was a very delicate fracture.
We have to wait about three weeks
to see the calcification development.
He's lucky, if we can call it lucky.
But is he ok? Is there any risk?
You can calm down.
He's young. He will be fine.
Excuse me.
Mom, Beto is awake.
How are you doing my son?
Where is my kichute?
They are over there, Beto.
See, I can't be a goalkeeper anymore.
God wanted it to be that way, right?
No son.
God does not punish people.
Yes he does.
He knows I lied.
I lie when I need.
I know.
Now it's the way you wanted.
I will never play soccer again
Not even be a helper.
To become a soccer player
can be risky.
Things can go wrong...
You have to play against
very good players.
But I am good!
You don't believe it.
Of course I do.
But now we have to
help you to get well.
Then everything will
find it's place, right?
Yes.
We have to leave.
Because you are here on welfare,
you can't have companion overnight.
It seems you are
not going to be alone.
If you need anything, you turn
on this light that the nurse will come.
Dad...
... I'm afraid.
I'm going to confess
you a secret son.
I have fear too.
I have fear for many things.
Fear is a feeling
I know way too well.
Now you need to
have faith in God, son.
He knows what to do.
He acts when you expect less.
God talks to us all day long,
we have to know how to listen...
...and we have to be patient.
There is a time for everything.
You have to go now.
Good night, son.
Good night, mom.
Sleep well, ok?
May God stay with you, son.
Bye.
There was a cockroach
inside your album
then I put it inside
a plastic bag.
The cockroach?
The album, Beto.
What are you looking at, brat?
How do you know
I'm looking at you?
I see you looking at me.
Then you are looking
at me too.
What happened to you?
I was hit by a car.
How about you?
So did I... by life.
And I was by a car.
Are you afraid?
Yes... I'm afraid if I won't play
soccer anymore.
In what position do you play?
I'm a goal keeper.
A keeper?
Look at that.
I used to be a goal keeper too.
I played at Londrina, Vitoria,
and Juventus!
It was fun time.
I earned a lot of money.
I bought two new cars.
A red karmanghia and
a black dodge dart.
A karmanghia and
a dodge dart?
Then you like to play
as a goal keeper?
Yes... but sometimes
I fear the penalty kicks.
Fear?
But I like it.
What's your name?
Beto.
Name of goalkeeper.
Beto.
There are two kinds of people:
those who have fear
and those who don't.
The goalkeeper can't fear.
He is different.
If you want to be goalkeeper
you can not be afraid of
being different.
If you want to be equal, go be attacker.
You have nine more like you.
The Goalkeeper has
his own area
an unique uniform
gloves
and is the number one.
And the best of all:
only the goalkeeper can fly.
Fly?
Yes.
I never believed in goalkeeper who
at the penalty kick, he tries one side.
What do you think of that?
I think it's risky.
When I was in front of
the penalty mark
I looked at the ball
my gaze was fixed on it
and thought of nothing else.
the kicker, his eyes,
his swings, the fans...
I was really focuced on the ball
when the attacker kicked the ball
my eyes followed its direction
And I'd fly towards the ball.
Did it work?
Not always
but when it worked
it was fun.
It was a great party.
I had a great feeling
that I'm not able to describe it.
Beto.
You'll be fine.
You'll be a great goalkeeper,
I'm sure.
Don't be afraid of
being different.
Good night.
Good night.
You are going home
tomorrow, ok?
But doctor, Am I going to
play soccer again?
Of course you will.
I don't want these cards,
I want my big fat one.
Which fat one?
My hippo.
It is there with you.
Be carefull, don't let it
hit the corner.
Where do we put it?
- There, please.
You stole my peacock. You steal
everything from me.
My zebra, my fat hippo...
They are there with you,
look it better.
You brought it.
They should have brought.
Take off your hands
from my cards, Ismael.
Hey partner, you need
a wheelchair like mine.
It is fault here.
Then I don't play anymore.
Ismael, get in the game.
Come on, walk.
Come here, Beto.
Firm your feet on
the floor and walk here.
He is afraid.
Go, go.
Mom, I'm walking.
I see you.
See?
Leonor, come outside to see Beto.
Oh, my son.
Thanks God.
If you knew how much I prayed.
Blessed be Our Lord Jesus Christ!
Beto, can you
go to Tanaka's?
Mom, may I go out there
to show to my friends.
- Go son, be careful.
- I will.
It is good to see him walking again.
A child must walk, don't you think?
Maria, this boy is very especial.
Where there is children
even the devil cut road short.
Beto is walking again!
Are you already walking?
No, stupid. He is flying.
I thought you
wouldn't walk anymore.
Want to replace me at the game?
No. I have to be patient.
There's a time for everything.
Can I watch soccer games?
Yes you can, Beto.
If it's only for watching, you can.
God doesn't want us
to get into competition.
Then I can see my
friends at soccer field?
Yes, If you will only watch,
you may.
If I wasn't here, we were lost!
Get back to defense.
What's happening with you, Beto?
- He's afraid.
You better worry with
your team, Pilico.
Looser!
What's happening, Beto?
I don't know. I think I've
lost the ability.
Call Silva to replace me.
Nobody is going to replace you.
You are fooling around.
Do you really want to leave?
- No. Let's play ball.
- Yeah...
Stop Hiroshi.
The game is tied now.
Hey, it's penalty kick.
Which side are you
going to try?
Do your part.
Rosa, whose car is that?
Dad left the taxi
and bought a new car.
Wow. It is a Dodge.
It has tape-record.
Hey Dad, lets go for a ride.
Let's go to visit the city, Dad?
Who wants some icecream?
Dad, can this car run
100 kilometers per hour?
This car runs
faster than Fittipaldi.
Then you win a competition
against Emerson Fittipaldi?
Huh, I leave him in the dust!
- Are you Beto?
- Yes.
- They say you are the best
keeper around!?
- Yeah ?!
- What is the secret?
I have style.
Yeah! But you still
have to score, huh?
Barriga's team wants a match
revenge for tomorrow!
Tomorrow?! No way.
We must play this game on saturday
it has to be at the Vila Nova field.
- Humm, someone farted here.
- It was Pardal.
Hey, let's Beto talk.
This game is very
important for us.
And on saturdays
Vila Nova is crowded
it's our change to show everyone
who is the best team in Vila Nova.
And if we lose?
Everyone is going to see that we are
the worst team at Vila Nova.
- Lose?! Are you seeing
any looser here?
Beto is the best keeper around.
- Yeah. Nobody will score in the game.
We must stop
playing like amateurs:
We must have soccer uniforms
and I also want a referee.
My dad can be referee.
He doesn't work on saturdays.
- Then I also want to play.
- You're a milk-tooth.
If I don't play, I tell to dad.
Oh yeah? Then I will tell
everyone that you pee in bed.
Let's call Pelezinho.
But he lives on the other side of the street.
So what? They are calling
Tarzan, six against six.
It is going to be the match of our
lives. Everyone will be there.
It's our chance. Let's show them
whom "The boys in Kichute" really are!
That's right president!
But Beto have you forgotten that
the ball is without one leather stripe?
I save it to me. Saturday morning
I will take it to a repair store.
But Ze Luiz, where are the
uniforms of our team?
My mother already made all of them
except the keeper uniform.
The goalkeeper?
Ah, leave that to me.
Rosa?
Hi Beto. Is Rosa home?
No, she went somewhere.
I helped my mother paint the
numbers on your uniforms.
Oh yeah?!
- Yeah! Do you need help?
If you feel like it.
Soninha!
I'll have to go now.
Mothers.
Soccer is competition,
there is no champion for God
it's time to choose, God or the world?
I want coffee with milk.
Quiet, pisser.
I'll make it for you.
I haven't pissed today.
Where are you going?
Roberto!?
Where do you think
you're going with that ball?
Which ball? Ah, this one?
It belongs to the club.
- What club?
- "Boys in Kichute"
Are you in a club?
No. It's only to arrange matches.
Games? Haven't I told you not to
get involved with this thing.
Are you challenging me, boy?
You know what, Beto?
There will be no more school for you.
You will go to work.
At your age I left home before
dawn to harvesting cotton.
Give me this ball here. Go in there
and start to scrape the bathroom walls.
Lazaro!
Haven't I told you to go inside?
Father! I like to play soccer,
can't you understand that?
You cant like it. You have to be
a worker like I am a worker.
You think I am the only painter in
the world? There are many of them.
I have to compete with
each one of them.
I thought God doesn't
allow competition.
He doesn't. But this is something else.
It is work no competition.
Father, I am not equal to you?
Are you equal to whom?
Soccer Players?
I am not equal to anybody.
I just want to do what I like.
Let the boy do what he likes.
Ok. To me you can do
whatever you want to.
I give up on you.
But you can be sure of one thing:
you are losing your soul for the rest
of your life, because of a beast dream.
Why are you wearing
your sister's blouse?
Mr. Herculano, you look like a referee.
I Look like? I am well known as the
king of the whistle, boys.
But Ze Luiz likes the game best.
His father is the referee.
I am not here to whistle for my son.
I am here to whistle for all of you.
Ah, I doubt it.
Listen to me. If you were referee,
would you rob in the match?
Not me. I wouldn't.
Very well.
I would have done it.
If he falls, I whistle penalty kick,
even if it wasn't.
For ten bucks, I score
agaist my own team.
Boys, all I want is that you
have fun with the game.
Because you are the players.
Let's play ball, right?
They're taking too long to come.
Look at them, they are coming.
- Look the "Boys in Kichute"
Let's do it Boys. Let's go.
Put the ball on the mark.
Face or crown?
- Face.
- Crown.
You win. What do you chose?
Ball or field?
- Ball.
- Which side do you want?
- That one.
- Go there then.
Let's do a fair play, huh?
Everything ok? Everything ok?
You are offside. You
were in the same line.
Calm down! Calm down!
Hey boy stop that.
I will drill the ball. Damn it.
It's a foul.
- A yellow card for you.
- Father whistling the game, huh?
I'm not here to whistle a game for my son.
I'm counting nine steps.
One, two, ...
- Beto, Beto. Are you
ready for the big game?
It is a great match! Barriga's soccer
team deserves our respect.
But we are ready to win and
to give joy to the soccer fans.
You have style, huh?
Of course. Excuse me, I have
to go back to the game.
Here. You can kick only
after I whistle.
- Are you ready keeper?
- Ok.
- To the right.
- Can we go?
- Go.
Ah! Why don't you go kick a cow's ass!
Free kick. For God's sake.
Pardal, watch your back.
Edivaldo, you're a fake.
Kick away, Silva.
Ze Luiz, goalkeeper ball!
You're a fake. Beto.
- Don't piss me off.
- Damn it, Beto. What was that?
You have style, huh?
Hey fake goalie.
Mom is calling you. She already
knows you ruined Rosa's blouse.
Today you will get your
share, she said.
They say if you put Q-boa soap,
the acrilex vanishes.
Beto, your father left home.
What?
He left with Jacira.
Alcione's wife?
Yes. He came to bring the
news, poor man.
Ah, don't suffer like that. Man is like
cachaça, in every corner you find one.
Hi people.
The mood is down.
What happened?
- Lazaro...
- He ran away with Jacira.
When I was eighteen and
he found out about me
He tried to give me a
lesson on how to be man.
And then I asked him:
what is to be a man?
And he answered: It is to
take responsibility like a man!
Coward.
He had no courage to tell me.
Neither the children he thought.
I do not know what did
I do to deserve this?
I did everything a woman
can do next to a man.
And if he comes back?
He better go to hell,
because here he ain't allowed.
If he wants to, he enters.
- Shut up.
- You shut up.
- Calm down, folks.
We were so happy.
No one is happy all the time.
You lost only the husband.
You still have your family, your friends
and your children.
Do you want me to stay overnight?
No thanks.
Ismael, go take a bath. Rosa, go
out there and bring the clothes.
Beto, from now on, you are
the man of this house.
- So?
- Wrong pass.
- But the kid is good.
- He ain't good in avoiding fouls.
- Is that him?
- Yeah. That's him.
- Huh...
- The boy is good. He has style.
Look, that boy got hurt.
Let's go there help him.
I'm coming.
No. I'm ok, let's keep playing ball.
- I'm ok, want to stay in the game.
- Are you a doctor?
Young man, who taught you to jump
in front of the attacker?
Where do you live, boy?
Ivai street 280, in the back.
- I'll take you home.
- I want to try again.
- Today, you're released of the test.
- When are you having another?
- For you? Never again.
You passed the test!
When I tell my mother, she will jump up
full of happiness. Thank you Mr.
Don't thank me. Thank yourself.
Our club is a family.
I'm Volpone. I run the juvenile soccer team
at National Atletico Clube.
- What happened to my son?
- It was only a scratch during the game.
- Game?
- Great man of the house!
- Shut up.
- Go ahead Mr...
- Volpone!
- Would you like some coffee?
- Yes!
- Go get it, Ismael.
Well, I will be quick so
I do not hinder you.
Your son took a test and was
selected to be part of the Nacional.
We pay for all the structure and we offer
a small salary in the beginning.
We have some requirements:
stay in school, good grades...
If we move to another village?
Is there a problem?
No, in fact, we pay the
transportation.
Good news, my son.
- Well...
Well, I have to go. Tomorrow
you go to my office.
Congratulations to the talented boy
you have! Take care kid.
- Bye, Mr. Volpone.
Beto goalkeeper.
If dad was here,
he wouldn't allow.
But he isn't. Now I'm dad and mom in this house.
I don't want to hear about him anymore.
Do you understand or I have
to speak another language?
- Is it tasty, son?
- Yes.
Rosa, Beto became goalkeeper
of the Nacional!
I knew you would pass the test.
Now I want the big party you promised me
and you have to buy a new blouse to me.
- Mrs. Leonor?
- Mrs. Leonor?
Wanna see cartoons?
No, thanks.
You liked her, huh?
There was once, it was my birthday
and she called me here.
She played in her accordion happy birthday
to me. She played several times.
Then I started laughing and
she also laughed.
We laughed a lot and then she said:
Happy Beto's day!
Jacira, bring me the towel, please.
Go and get it. I am not your maid.
- Your mom will find out.
- Barriga, why you missed the soccer test?
Everybody knows that you play soccer
best than everyone else here.
Soccer to me is just for fun. I find it
strange beeing paid to have fun.
I don't like that, so I am
going to be a doctor.
Dr. Barriga?!
Who wants to be medicated
by a doctor named Barriga?
- But doctor, you do all types of examination?
- Of course.
Then examine here.
I'm leaving that sink, Mr. Luiz. The new
house already comes with one.
I can already see the houses being made
with phone and everything.
- Mom, what's going on?
- We are moving to a new house.
- But is today?
- Yes. A new house.
Look around the yard and see if we
left things behind then put in the truck.
- Where have you been?
- I was playing.
Hurry up. It's charged per hour.
I have things to do here. I'm president
of my club, and have school too.
Beto relax, they also have school there.
Hey, be careful with that TV.
Thank you for everything Mr. Luiz,
Mrs. Janete you are good friends.
- Thank you too. Life's much better
when we have friends.
- Are you coming back?
- I think so.
- Are you throwing that blouse away?
- No. Why?
- I think it fits on me.
- Do you like to play soccer?
I like the goalkeeper.