The Soccer Dream Book Two — Paul Lynch

sixteen-year-old Dexter is a homeless boy on the streets of New York City, U.S.A. One day he starts kicking a soda can and he gets good at it and a soccer coach at a local community college in NYC sees his potential and invites him to try out for their soccer team. Dexter is puzzled because he doesn't even know what soccer is; however, he takes up the coach's offer and heads off to the community college where to his surprise he has to enroll as a student in order to play for the school. He accepts and studies Natural History while being a star at soccer.