He thinks he's heard a cat but when he runs closer, he notices an abandoned baby crying in the middle of a street dump.

While Daniel, nicknamed "El Gato" (the cat) is an innocent boy who dreams of playing in Caracas FC, Julio has become part of a gang.

In their last chance to impress the scout, the brothers win a game and Daniel runs to the goalie and beats him so badly he is killed.

The film moves without clear direction to the last scene, which shows Julio standing without his brother before a professional soccer game.

Club criticizes the use of football games as an expression of drama because of "predictable last-second goals and miraculous comebacks",[2] Ron Wilkinson of Monsters and Critics agrees that it has "a thin script and sport drama predictability";[1] Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times acknowledges that "[t]he sports-as-savior theme is an old one," but adds that the film "coats its clichés in winningly natural performances", which redeems it.

[1] Though Eye for Film's Amber Wilkinson uses her own metaphor to celebrate the film's social message that "hits home as hard as an unexpected football to the solar plexus",[4] The Arizona Republic's Kerry Lengel finds its "gritty realism [...] just camouflage for another clichéd sports flick".