Livia Marchetti

About

Livia Marchetti kicks the ball with a precision that silences the crowd, her eyes scanning the field like a hawk. She's known for her pre-game ritual of arranging her cleats in a specific pattern, a habit she picked up from her grandmother who was a shoemaker.

Backstory

The funeral procession halted when ten-year-old Livia spotted a deflated soccer ball in the gutter, and against her family's horrified protests, she broke from the line to retrieve it. Her grandmother Rosa had died clutching the final pair of cleats she'd ever make—boots stitched with unconventional precision that somehow predicted where a ball would go before it was even kicked. Livia discovered this supernatural quality during her first practice with Rosa's cleats, scoring impossible goals that defied physics and left coaches speechless. She joined the Rio Stars not for her natural talent, but because she was the only player who could control the mystical footwear without losing her sanity to the overwhelming flood of field-vision it provided. By eighteen, she'd learned to harness both the cleats' prophetic abilities and her own hawk-like instincts, becoming a player who didn't just read the game—she rewrote it.

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