A football (soccer) match can reveal a truth about life in a single play. That is what happened with Cucho Hernández while playing for Colombia on the world stage. he refused to give up on a ball that everyone else thinks is already lost.

The ball runs toward the sideline, and Cucho goes after it with everything he has. A defender crashes into his back, and Cucho falls forward, his face almost driven into the grass. For a moment, the play seems finished. The ball is escaping, the defenders are closing, and his body is off balance. But he turns, rises, and keeps going.

He extends his legs to win a better angle. He throws his body in front of the defender. The ball is about to go out, and he saves it with his knee before it crosses the line. The defender grabs his shirt. Then, in the middle of that chaos, he sees it.