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Humiliation
El Gato got his first nickname which was La Cigüeña which means the stork. He got this because he was really tall but really skinny and uncordinated. Nobody wanted him on a soccer team when they played in the plaza. After that he quit soccer. -
The Warning
El Gato's parents warned him about going to deep into the forest becuase people have gotten lost before and have never been seen again. His nana made it seem scarier saying the forest is filled with zombies and ghost haunting the grounds. -
First Encounter
El Gato wandered to far off the path in the jungle which he wasnt suppose to do. He found a clearing in the jungle where a soccer goal was. He walked up to the goal and someone or something came out of the jungle and stood facing him, it was the Keeper. In an erie voice he said to El Gato "There. Your Place. You belong there" and El Gato ran away in fright. -
The First Practice
El Gato went back to the clearing to confront the Keeper. The Keeper again walks out of the jungle and they stand facing each other. El Gato is wondering what he ment the other day and the Keeper tells him that he is to play goal and will be the best at it. This begins the long rough road of becoming the greatest keeper of all time. -
Suspicion
El Gato's parents are suspicious about him going into the jungle everyday. He tells them that he is studying the jungle and the plants and animals in it. His parents then get him colored pencils and a notebook to draw everything that he sees, El Gato does not like this. -
The Jaguar
The Keeper brings a jaguar to one of their practices. The jaguar is suppose to symbolise El Gato. The jaguar is swift and in control when stalking and attacking his prey, when El Gato is in goal that is how he is suppose to be and the Keeper shows him how to do this by reading the body language a player shows for his shot. -
El Gatos 15th Birthday
On his 15th birthday El gato had to stop going to school and stop visiting the keeper and go to work with his dad in the logging business. -
First Day of Work
El Gato meets his boss and his co-worker Estevan. Estevan teaches El Gato the work he will be doing which is not as dangerous as being a saw-monkey who are more likely to get crushed by falling trees. -
The First Game
Every saturday after work the people at work play each other in soccer. They split up into two teams, the loggers and the shopworkers. The shopworkers didnt have a goalie so El Gato took the place of the keeper for them. One of his old friends Jao played for the other team and was shocked to see El Gato playing and he didnt like it. El Gato put what he learned from the Keeper to work by saving everything that came at him. He was unbeatable. -
Imitation
El Gato went to go visit the Keeper the day after the game. The Keeper then began to imitate how El Gato was in the game and showed him what he couldve done better in game. -
The Name
Everyone at work started calling him El Gato from his performance of the game before. El Gato meaning the cat, he got this because of his cat like reflexies. Estevan then game him his first ever jersey with the number one on it. -
The Prediction
During one of the practices the Keeper told El Gato that their time is running out and that El Gato was going to go somewhere. El Gato had no idea what he was talking about. -
The Rich And The Theif
Before one of the games at the work place a rich couple came to watch the game and also brought a player with them. Larrson was the player and everyone thought that he dropped off the face of the earth before this game due to an almost murder on the pitch in a match. They call him El Ladron, the theif. He was the only person to score on El Gato in the final minutes of the game played but he was impressed with El Gatos skill. -
The Contract
The rich people who came to the game were owners of the DSJ soccer club. They came because they heard El Gato was really good and wanted to give him a contract to play with them. His parents didn't like the idea of him playing soccer because they want him to go to college, but they ended up letting him just for the money. -
The Last Meeting
After the contract signing El Gato went to go meet with the Keeper for the final time. He teaches El Gato how to stay composed when there are a bunch of glowing lights shinning and the loud and roaring of fans. This is where El Gato figured out that the Keeper is a ghost. -
The Team
The DSJ soccer club is in San Jaun, El Gato didn't have any place to stay so he stayed with DSJ's physical therapist. The team sent all the young players to a school to learn which made his parents happy about this. He was third back up keeper on the team and he ended up becoming number one after the starting goalie, Pablo, broke his collarbone. Pablo then gave El Gato his number 1 jersey and El Gato became starter. This made Pablo's back up goalie very mad. -
The Attack
Ramos, the original back up keeper to Pablo hated El Gato for taking his spot. He was so mad about it that he hired two people to try and kill him. El Gato was walking in a forest near the stadium and he felt a presence. The presence was the Keeper and he was there to warn El Gato of people following him, he turned around and saw two people with knives chasing after him. El Gato managed to escape and at the next practice Ramos was shocked to see El Gato show up. -
The Cup
After twelve seasons with the DSJ club El Gato and his team won the world cup. The game went into shootouts and El Gato hung tough and made great saves to win his team the world cup. -
The Loss
The day after El Gato won the world cup there was a tragedy. His father died from alcohol poisoning. His old boss told him that everyone was buying him drinks because he won the world cup. El Gato traveled back to his hometown for the funeral -
The Interview
The book starts off with El Gato, the greatest goalkeeper to ever play, telling Paul Faustino, a newspaper writer for La Nación, about his past life and his journey and experiences to becoming the greatest goalkeeper of all time. With him he has the world cup that he has just won for his team and a life story that sounds completely insane. -
The Idea
Paul Faustino wants to make all the stuff that El Gato told him into a article in the newspaper but El Gato has a better idea. He wants him to make a book about his experience and it shall be called "Keeper". Paul isn't to fond of this idea but he makes a couple of calls and tries to make it happen. He then tells Paul that it was his last season of playing and he is retiring from soccer. -
The Discovery
While Paul was making some phone calls El Gato was going through some of his files. One file stood out to him, in it was a picture of 1948 national soccer team. They are considered The Lost Ones because they were on a plane and it crashed and no one found the wreck or anyone on it. One person in the picture stood out to him. That person was his mentor the Keeper. He quick grabbed the world cup and ran out. -
Reuniting
El Gato went back to his childhood house and walked into the forest looking for the clearing where the soccer field was. He walked out onto the field and the Keeper appeared. El Gato took out the world cup and handed it to the Keeper. Suddenly more people came out from the jungle, it was the rest of the team. They all gathered around the Keeper each putting a hand on it and then they vanished.
