The Long Game (Long Game, #1)
by Elena Armas
Descriptions
A disgraced soccer exec reluctantly enlists the help of a retired soccer star in coaching a
children?s team in this smalltown love story in the vein of Ted Lasso and It Happened One
Summer ?from the New York Times bestselling author of The Spanish Love
Deception.Adalyn Reyes has spent years perfecting her daily routine: wake up at dawn, drive
to the Miami Flames FC offices, try her hardest to leave a mark, go home, and repeat.But her
routine is disrupted when a video of her in an altercation with the team?s mascot goes viral.
Rather than fire her, the team?s owner?who happens to be her father?sends Adalyn to
middle-of-nowhere North Carolina, where she?s tasked with turning around the struggling
local soccer team, the Green Warriors, as a way to redeem herself. Her plans crumble upon
discovering that the players wear tutus to practice (impractical), keep pet goats (messy), and
are terrified of Adalyn (counterproductive), and are nine-year-old kids.To make things
worse, also in town is