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Winnaar van de Prijs van de Jonge Jury 2020! "Met Match wil ik een verhaal vertellen over doorzetten, over alles opgeven om dat ene doel te bereiken. Om er dan achter te komen dat er één ding nog veel belangrijker is." Buddy Tegenbosch. Vanaf het moment dat Jim voor het eerst op het voetbalveld staat, weet hij dat hij er thuishoort. Met succes doorloopt hij de jeugdopleiding van PSV en als hij zeventien is, krijgt hij tijdens zijn zomervakantie in Zeeland bericht dat hij eindelijk mee mag op trainingskamp.

En este relato autobiográfico, Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa echa mano de sus experiencias como uno de los primeros submarinistas españoles. En ella nos relata sus inmersiones a lo largo y ancho de todo el mundo, las visiones submarinas y los paisajes arrebatadores que ha conocido en sus viajes, las anécdotas más memorables que ha vivido tanto bajo el mar como en la superficie, todo ello aderezado con ese sabor de aventura que solo un viajero de su talento puede evocar.

Ihr Leben lang hat Audrey auf diesen Moment hingefiebert: Sie und ihre beste Freundin Emma haben die Chance, bei der Olympiade zu zeigen, dass sie zu den besten Turnerinnen der Welt gehören. Aber es kommt anders als geplant. Denn ihr Trainer, dem beide Mädchen vertrauen, seit sie drei Jahre alt sind, wird wegen Missbrauch an ihrer Mannschaftskollegin verhaftet. Das Team steht vor einem Scherbenhaufen. Obwohl Audrey in Leo, dem Sohn der neuen Trainerin, ihre große Liebe findet, hat sie keine Ahnung, wie sie Olympia bestehen soll.

Japan, Anfang des 17. Jahrhunderts: Der junge Engländer Jack erlernt auf der Samurai-Schule des berühmten Masamoto Takeshi die Kunst des Schwertkampfs. Schneller als erwartet muss Jack seine Fähigkeiten unter Beweis stellen, denn außerhalb der Schulmauern lauert Gefahr. Ein Geheimbund will alle Europäer aus Japan vertreiben und hat es auch auf Jack abgesehen. Ein junger Engländer. Gestrandet in Japan. Ausgebildet zum Samurai. Bereit für den Kampf seines Lebens.

Charlie Hastings ist Star ihres Baseballteams - und der typische Kumpeltyp. Als ihr bester Freund, Teamkollege und Schwarm mit einem anderen Mädchen ausgeht, ist sie am Boden zerstört. Veränderung muss her, und Charlie will den Sport an den Nagel hängen. Aber die Meisterschaften sind nah, und die Roosevelt High Ravens ohne Charlie aufgeschmissen. Da macht Kapitän Jace ihr ein Angebot: Wenn sie bleibt, hilft er ihr, mehr als Mädchen wahrgenommen zu werden. Vielleicht gewinnt er ja so ihr Herz.

A Franc piace da impazzire il basket, ma non sa giocare. Ci prova e ci riprova, ma - deluso perché non riesce mai a fare canestro - è pronto a darsi per vinto. Quando si avvia col padre verso il campetto per un'ultima partita, avviene qualcosa di inatteso e sconvolgente che lo catapulterà in un mondo di fantasia, animato da personaggi oscuri e inquietanti che cercheranno di approfittarsi di lui. Per riappropriarsi di quel che è suo sarà necessario sconfiggere la paura, riconquistare il corpo e i desideri, fare un canestro decisivo: usare al meglio il suo cuore.

Una sera, per caso, Mario Balotelli incontra Jack, un quindicenne che vive a testa in giù come un fante delle carte, ma fa rovesciate fantastiche. A scuola, in chiesa, con le ragazze, Jack deve affrontare i bulletti che gli lanciano banane, un sindaco sceriffo e le "Ronde della tranquillità". Poi un giorno Mario, dalla tv, gli dedica un gol. Un romanzo intelligente, comico ed emozionante sulla lotta di un ragazzo e di un campione contro la stupidità e la violenza degli altri. Che culmina in un'indimenticabile partita "capovolta" con altri campioni: Ibra, Buffon, Gattuso, Santon e Totti.

Hawk, a First Nations teen from northern Alberta, is a cross-country runner who aims to win gold in an upcoming competition between all the schools in Fort McMurray. But when Hawk discovers he has leukemia, his identity as a star athlete is stripped away, along with his muscles and energy. When he finds an osprey, "a fish hawk," mired in a pond of toxic residue from the oil sands industry, he sees his life-or-death struggle echoed by the young bird.

A swimmer whose early talent made her a world champion, Susannah was poised for greatness in a sport that demands so much of its young. But an inexplicable slowdown has put her dream in jeopardy, and Susannah is fighting to keep her career afloat when two important people enter her life: a new coach with a revolutionary training strategy and a charming fellow swimmer named Harry Matthews.

After living away for years, Sandy Lafonde returns to her childhood home at the Watishka First Nation reserve. Little has changed since she left - a local gang menaces the area, the community is splintered, and the Cree youth are left restless and frustrated. Sandy realizes that she needs to do something to help, so she proposes to start a junior hockey team. Drawing on her own past, Sandy steps in as coach and tries to reign in the star player, hot-headed Sheldon Lambert, a 15-year-old hockey prodigy who just can’t seem to stay out of trouble.

For guys like Russell Boudreaux, football is the only way out of their small town. As the team's varsity tight end, Rus has a singular goal: to get a scholarship and play on the national stage. But when his best friend is unfairly arrested and kicked off the team, Rus faces an impossible choice: speak up or live in fear. Desperate for change, Rus kneels during the national anthem. In one instant, he falls from local stardom and becomes a target for hatred. But he's not alone. With the help of his best friend and an unlikely ally, Rus will fight for his dreams, and for justice.

At first, when a massive ice storm traps 14-year-old Hannah and her family in a remote cabin, it feels like a game to practice the survival skills she's been learning. That all changes when an accident leaves her mother desperately low on insulin. With no power and no way to contact the outside world, Hannah steals away with the four family dogs tied to an old dogsled. All she has to do is make it to the nearest cabin and find a working phone to save the day. But a wrong turn and worsening weather leave her in grave danger and saddled with an unexpected passenger.

Teenager Cason Martin is the youngest ballerina in the Atlanta Ballet Conservatory. She never really had a choice of whether she learned to dance or not. Her mother, the conservatory's artistic director, has made all the decisions in Cason's life. But that's about to change. Cason has been hiding an injury, and it's much worse than anyone imagines.

When Miho's boyfriend breaks up with her without warning, all she can see is red - the color of blinding fury and pain, and the color of the fire she sets in an oil drum on the beach, burning every scrap of their memories. It's spring of senior year in Oahu, and while her friends are getting ready for college, Miho's deep in her misery, delivering pizzas on her bike. But then inspiration strikes: she'll do a triathlon.

Nick Abbott and Trent Dawson have nothing in common but basketball. Or so it seems. But as the basketball season progresses, their lives become unexpectedly intertwined. In this story of an unlikely bond, award-winning author Carl Deuker explores that dark and confusing place between loneliness and friendship, between faithfulness and betrayal.

Be careful what you wish for. Sixteen-year-old Mark Chamberlain always dreamed of playing in a state championship basketball game. But he never envisioned a nightmare performance that would bring utter humiliation and scar him as an outcast at school. Classmates begin to call Mark "Wilt" Chamberlain because he melts under pressure.To top it off, Mark's father won't come to his games.

Chloe Barlow has always wanted to give back. But when she volunteers at the local church one night, her good deed is repaid with a violent attack. The biggest surprise comes when Armitage’s resident bad boy saves Chloe and leaves a sweet note in her locker the following day. Could Chloe's classmates have been wrong about him the whole time? Vincent Mancini hasn’t cared about his reputation in years. At least, not until Chloe looked in his direction.

Twelve-year-old Tanner Phillips fishes the Oneida Lake Ice Fishing Derby every year with his dad. Last year, he ruined everything - losing the competition and losing some of his grandfather's gear. This year, Tanner is determined to not only prove his skills on the ice, but also show his dad, once and for all, that he's no longer a little kid. But as soon as they get out on the ice, the competition turns disastrous.

Set in seaside Nailer’s Cove, Wildball is the story of Shane Monoghan – one of the best collegiate shortstops in the Nation. While playing summer ball in the prestigious Cove League, Shane fights for his position both on the field and off. Balancing a complicated host family and his brother’s redeployment to Iraq, Shane learns that his high school coach Mike Calloway, the man responsible for developing him as a player and bullying him relentlessly, just passed away. Unable to process his anger at Calloway, Shane finds comfort and distraction in mentoring a local kid, Noah Kinton, while stepping into the role of Team Captain for the Brigs.

Moses and his cousin Charlie were best friends, wisecracking pranksters, unstoppable forces of teenage energy - until the night they became accidental arsonists and set in motion a chain of events that left Moses alone, guilt-stricken, and most likely trapped in his dead-end town. Then Moses gets a lucky break: the chance to volunteer as a camp counselor for a week and prove the incident at the bowling alley should be expunged from his record. And since a criminal record and enrollment at Duke are mutually exclusive, he’s determined. But tragedy seems to follow him wherever he goes.