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This riveting true account of courage, durability, and soccer at the level of racial anxiety in Birmingham, Alabama, influenced the film Woodlawn and tells the storyline of Instructor Tandy Gerelds; his operating back again, Tony Nathan; and a higher school soccer game that healed a city. Woodlawn is soon to be a major film starring Jon Voight, Nic Bishop, and C. Thomas Howell. Amid violent, impassioned racial tensions in Birmingham, Alabama, new soccer mentor Tandy Gerelds was attempting to create a winning soccer team at Woodlawn High School - one of the last universities in Birmingham to integrate. The team he was handed did not have the grade of players he needed to gain - until he found Tony Nathan run. But Tony was BLACK, and Instructor Gerelds recognized that adding him in as operating back would be like drawing a focus on on his own back and the back of his soon-to-be celebrity player. But Instructor Gerelds found something in Tony, and he recognized that his decision to let him play was about more than soccer. It had been about doing what was right for the institution...and the town. Coach Gerelds' soccer field became really the only put in place Birmingham where racial tensions melted away, but Tony was still suffering from chaos and assault in school. By using a new institution chaplain, Tony learned to look beyond himself and noticed that there was more at stake than winning a casino game. In 1974 Instructor Gerelds' interracial team made Alabama history, drawing 42,000 enthusiasts into the stadium to watch them play. It had been this game that brought on the unity and support of the Woodlawn High School Colonels which finally allowed a city to heal and trained its people how to love.
