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Snap Art another one from the collection Shaolin Soccer, In an opening flashback scene, "Golden Leg" Fung, a football star in the 1980s, misses a penalty kick in a crucial match. It transpires that he had been manipulated by his teammate Hung, who had made a large bet against his own team and offered Fung a piece of the proceeds if he missed the kick on purpose. After missing the kick, angry spectators attack Fung and break his leg. Twenty years later, Fung walks with a limp and is the mistreated lackey of Hung, now a successful businessman. When Fung asks to coach Hung's football squad, Hung mocks him and reveals that he tricked him with a bad cheque and hired those who broke his leg. While drinking his sorrows in the streets, Fung comes across Sing, a Shaolin kung fu master who wants to promote the practical benefits of the martial art to the world. No one takes kung fu classes from Sing, however, as he is dirty and poor. He steals mantou (steamed buns) from Mui, a woman with severe acne, who uses tai chi to cook the food. At first disdainful, Fung soon discovers the power of Sing's leg and offers to coach him in football. Compelled by the idea of promoting kung fu through football, Sing asks his former Shaolin brothers to join his team. Sing's brothers eventually agree. As a test, Fung arranges a game with a team known for their vicious cheating. The thug team gives the Shaolin team a beating. When all seems lost, the Shaolin team members reawaken their powers and utilize them to defeat the other team. The thugs ask to join Sing's team, which takes the name Team Shaolin, or Team Good in the American version of the film. Feeling confident about this new development in his life, Sing takes Mui to try on expensive dresses at a high-end department store after hours and offers to buy her one. She gets a makeover to impress him, though the team and her boss mock her exaggerated 1980s look. When Mui hints at her feelings for Sing, he tells her he only wants to be friends. She disappears after her boss fires her. Team Shaolin enters the open cup competition in Shanghai, where they achieve ridiculously one-sided victories due to their powers. They only meet their match in the final against Hung's Team Evil, who have superhuman strength and speed due to an American drug. The referee has also been bought out by Hung. Team Evil badly injures two of Team Shaolin's goalkeepers; the powerless members of Team Shaolin then flee. As the team is about to lose by default, Mui, who has shaved her head and overcome her acne problem, suddenly appears on the field and offers to be their goalkeeper. When Team Evil's striker kicks the ball with flaming force towards Mui, she stops it with tai chi. She and Sing combine their skills and rocket the ball downfield. The ball blows through Team Evil's goal while hurling all its players off the field, scoring the sole and winning goal. Later, Hung is imprisoned for doping, while the Team Evil players receive lifetime bans. Sing goes out for a jog and is pleased to see people around him using kung fu in their everyday lives, his lifelong dream having become a reality. A large ad on the side of a building shows that Sing and Mui, now a famous married couple, have applied kung fu to other sports and won the world championship in bowling, Dou watch and enjoy.