From The Author

I grew up playing soccer and played for the same team with the same guys (for the most part) from the time I was 15 until I was 45. After that I coached my child’s soccer team. As I was teaching kids how to play and enjoy the game, the idea for this novel came to me. 

I liked the idea of an undersized phenom who loved watching soccer but had never played the game because his parents wouldn’t let him. When he finally steps on a field, his natural skill is evident, but he has no idea how to be a part of a team.

Shortly after this book was published, a Hollywood Production company optioned the film rights and I wrote the script. There’s no movie yet, but Hollywood plays by a whole different set of rules.

About The Good, The Bad and The Goalie

You Don’t Have To Be The Biggest Player To Be The Best

Marcus Owen is just eleven years old, but his over protective parents, aka the professors, already have his life planned out. After middle school, Marcus will attend a prestigious high school, Ivy League university and then earn a Ph.D. At any moment the professors may spring a pop quiz on him. Marcus may have to ask for his morning cereal in Latin or recite the Fibonacci sequence to earn dessert. The professors are also steadfast in their conviction to keep Marcus out of sports, until he turns the tables on them by debating his desire to play soccer. Marcus wins the debate and is allowed to play with one caveat: if his grades fall, they pull the plug.

What the professors don’t know is that their undersized son is a soccer phenomenon with incredible natural abilities that he has kept hidden from them. What Marcus doesn’t know is that the professors are hiding a big secret of their own.

After a disastrous tryout with the renowned Academy Soccer Club, where Marcus is laughed at because of his size, Marcus joins The Carrollwood Tornados where he dedicates himself to learning the game, being the best, and beating the Academy for all the little guys who may never get the chance to play.