Lin Hui is a boy who grew up practicing soccer alone in front of a battered goal. Though he stands less than five feet tall, his astonishing talent and unwavering determination make him a star at an elementary school soccer tournament. But fate has other plans: his middle school has no soccer field, so he has to switch to basketball; his high school has a field, but nobody plays soccer, so he can only pour his sweat into the school basketball team. He takes the sports college entrance exam twice, missing the mark by one point the first time and sitting out the second after a serious injury...
But he never gives up.
After taking the college entrance exam three times and repeating a year twice, Lin Hui finally makes it into university and returns to the soccer field. From winning the Freshman Cup to taking first place at the provincial university games, from being a dark horse at the national tournament to becoming an iron wall in the final, he writes an underdog's comeback story with one unbelievable save after another.
He signs with a China League One team, makes it to the Chinese Super League, and heads to Europe. On the pitches of the Big Five leagues, the boy who once practiced alone in the snow eventually becomes a legendary goalkeeper, lifting the trophies of five top-flight league titles.
And always behind him are the father who bailed him out of the police station with a bag of coins, the girl who waited for him from high school through university, the brothers who fought alongside him, and everyone who believed in and supported him. From a small boy on a muddy field to a legendary goalkeeper on the world stage, Lin Hui spends his life proving that there is glory to be found behind the goal line, too.
