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.
"We’re going to the National Cup," he says. shaolin soccer part 1
The referee, terrified, awards a penalty just to end the play. His first attempt
We are, of course, talking about the 2001 cult masterpiece Shaolin Six —better known to Western audiences as Shaolin Soccer . His second
"Your leg," Fung whispers, eyes wide. "It’s a cannon."
Sing, however, clings to the old ways. He believes Shaolin Kung Fu can save the world. Or, at the very least, make it spin a little faster.
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.
