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In sports, everybody loves redemption stories, the underdog who no one believes in but through sheer hard work wins it all. But no one tells the stories of the players who work hard and don’t make it. In pro football, 53 guys get on the roster. Ten make it to the practice squad. And then there’s the 64th Man - that’s Billy Logan (Cena), who seems to always be one spot from glory.

It’s 1997, and Kathy Murray, desperate to leave her medical sales job and pursue her passion, accepts an offer to teach aerobics in Germany - as a former elite athlete, she’s confident she can handle whatever comes her way. She quickly realizes, though, that her leap of faith may be more challenging than she thought, struggling with the German language and the overt racism she constantly faces as one of the only Black people in her new community. But that doesn’t stop her from taking on her biggest challenge yet: coaching a cheerleading squad of disengaged teenagers.

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Nicolás es un Nini, ni estudia ni trabaja. Dieciocho años. Estudios los justos, la educación secundaria a duras penas. Una madre abnegada, que le da el dinero a cuentagotas; un padre abotargado, a punto de engrosar las listas del paro, y una hermana de quince años y medio de furia incontrolable y rabiosa. El capital de Nico son diez euros y sus dos colegas, Berto y Juan. No tiene otra cosa, excepto horas al día de sobra para derrochar las que quiera. Es lo único gratis. Del futuro no sabe nada, del pasado mejor no hablar. El presente es incierto.

No one would call David Rose - or ‘Rosie’ as he’s known to one and all - a star, but he’s good at his job and proud of his work as a sportswriter for a national newspaper. He’s used to seeing flashier talents come and go - both on the field, and in the competitive world of the press. Football comes first in the way he spends his working life, but he’s happy to pitch in whatever the sport - from Formula 1 to Test cricket in the West Indies, the Olympics to a heavyweight championship bout in Japan.