Shaolin Soccer Part 1 [DIRECT]

His first attempt? Street performance. It fails. His second? Teaching martial arts to overweight teenagers. That also fails. He is broke, starving, and standing on a crowded bus when fate—disguised as a bitter, has-been soccer player named "Golden Leg" Fung (Ng Man-tat)—intervenes.

Before we analyze the "Steel Leg" vs. "Iron Head" finals or the tragic backstory of "Light Weight" Manny, we must first go back to the beginning. To the moment a discarded shoe changed the world. shaolin soccer part 1

The article concludes Part 1 with the first official match: The Shaolin Team (a ragtag collection of janitors and cooks wearing mismatched cleats) versus The Jade Exports Industrial Unit. His first attempt

It is a massacre. Not for the Shaolin team—for the ball. The ball becomes a guided missile. A goalkeeper catches a shot and flies backward into the net, taking the crossbar with him. A header from the "Iron Head" brother cracks the goalpost in half. His second

By Master Jin, Guest Columnist for Kung Fu Cinema Quarterly