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Years after childhood best friends Marina Adeyemi and Jude Bellingham drift apart, fate throws them back together at Real Madrid. Fresh from university, Marina begins her dream placement as a physiotherapy trainee—only to discover her first patient is Jude, now one of the world’s biggest footballers recovering from a frustrating hamstring injury. The problem? Jude barely speaks to her. The boy who once treated her like family now makes every rehabilitation session a battle, convinced she walked out of his life years ago. Marina, meanwhile, has no idea why he hates her. As Jude fights to return to the pitch and Marina struggles to prove herself in one of football’s biggest clubs, old memories resurface, buried feelings refuse to stay buried, and the line between healing an injury and healing a broken friendship begins to blur. In a world where football comes first, some comebacks matter far beyond ninety minutes.