Kung Fu Soccer
Kung Fu Soccer (Chinese:功夫足球) is a Hong Kong television drama series that aired on TVB from December 6, 2004 to January 9, 2005.
| Kung Fu Soccer (功夫足球) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Modern Drama |
| Directed by | Ho Wai Chan Sin Ming Ko Ping Kwong Lee Man Kit Poon |
| Starring | Dicky Cheung Anthony Wong Bowie Lam Sandra Ng Gillian Chung (Guest Star) Charlene Choi (Guest Star) |
| Opening theme | "足球小將" by Dicky Cheung |
| Ending theme | "貪慕虛榮" by Joey Yung |
| Country of origin | Hong Kong, Guangdong, China |
| Original language | Cantonese |
| No. of episodes | 33 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 45 minutes (approx.) |
| Production company | Ting Yut Siu |
| Release | |
| Original network | TVB |
| Original release | December 6, 2004 – January 9, 2005 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Plot
Kung Fu Soccer is about the soccer world intertwined with talented people from the world of Kung Fu. Each character has a special Kung Fu talent that they use to play soccer.
Lam Chung Fu (Anthony Wong) was once a great soccer player in China. While at the top of his soccer-playing career, his brother Pau set him up and he was forced to give up soccer.
One day, Fu meets a young man named Shun/Little Sun (Dicky Cheung) and is impressed by his kung-fu and kicking skills. Shun has a disease that causes him to have a really bad memory and he can not remember people. The only thing he can remember is everything relating to soccer (for example soccer players, soccer teams and soccer matches).
Fu comes up with the idea to form a Kung-Fu soccer team and apply martial arts skills to the game of soccer. They lose their first game with 16-2. However after being trained really hard by Lam Chung Fu the team becomes better and soon wins most of its games.
Then Shun meets a traditional Chinese doctor that has a new medication that can help him. However this new medication has a huge risk, if it goes wrong the medication can kill him. Shun's sister (Sandra Ng), who also has many kung fu skills, gives Shun the choice and he chooses to take the new medication. Shun survives, his memory becomes normal and he is soon elected as captain of the team.
The story continues with the team winning many matches and having many sponsors. Near the end, Lam Chung Fu's brother, the evil Lam Chung Pau wants their team to lose, so he creates another Kung Fu soccer team to compete against them.
Pau has many evil people working for him and even kills 2 people from Fu's soccer team (a goal keeper who tried to save his team mates while they were trapped in a building by Pau and a defence player who tried to save another player from his team by donating his kidney because Pau's player kicked Fu's player really hard during a soccer match). The defence player is unlucky and dies after the operation but the player who he tried to save, survives.
At last (and thanks to Lam Chung Fu's hard work), the players succeed in defeating Pau's team and become world famous.