What does a young man in Greece with a talent for football and ambitions do? Vasilis Seretis - the one later named Bill - spends his life being chased from one city to another, leaving behind teams and coaches. Rebellious, unfaithful, selfish. During the days he roams the fields and at nights, when he's not nestled in bars, he lays out solitaire games. A man within the crowd and therefore lonely. Fields, hotels, roads unfold against the backdrop of Thessaloniki, Volos, and Athens. In each of these, a woman. Football players, physiotherapists, managers, veterans alternate with bar-goers, horse racing enthusiasts, and sports reporters. Where does Bill belong? What lies beneath his jersey? Where does he disappear to with his worn-out suitcase and a deck of cards with nudes? Why does he always leave by train and stay in rooms overlooking stations? M.K. "The Jersey with the Nine" is a realistic novel. From its pages emerges a whole world of football players, coaches, sports managers, café fans, horse racing enthusiasts who compete, test their luck, travel, discuss, move within hotels, bars, and centers, on trains, in the deserted streets of the night city, in crowded neighborhoods and packed stadiums.