This book is a campus novel, which mainly describes the growth story of a group of high school students.
The novel focuses on how Yufeng, a high school student, embarked on the path of football. In the city of Beichuan, which is famous for football, the originally weak Beichuan High School football team joined the super rookie Li Chen and the genius Lin Yuhan, two ace players and an Italian-style steel defense line. Under the leadership of the coach Lao Zhao who advocates happy football, they defeated the strong team Qingyuan on the road to the national competition, tied the former champion team Nanhai High School and finally entered the national competition.
This is not only a period of passionate youth in boyhood, but also expresses the depression and confusion of young people in growing up, the looming youthful love, the persistent pursuit of ideals, the cruelty of competitive sports, and in the dark football environment in China, how everyone who loves football still burns his life with enthusiasm like a moth to a flame despite being scolded and suppressed.
The campus is also a small society with various forms, where there is beauty and ugliness, light and darkness, joy and victory, sadness and separation. Perhaps until many years later, those mottled youth will still shine in our hearts.