The perfect soccer player kicks the ball so hard that he eindellt the post. He jumps higher than any opponent and is extremely fast. The dream of every coach. Problem: So far, there is the perfect footballer only on DVD. In "Shaolin Soccer", one of the most successful films of China, meets a kung fu fighter of the famous Shaolin Temple to deal with the round leather.
And is almost unparalleled. A Chinese kung fu school wants the fictional story now as much as possible into reality. It forms from 40 of its approximately 2,000 students to football players, next to the 1500 year old Shaolin Temple, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is considered the cradle of Buddhism and Kung Fu.
In Henan province some master's training center "Shaolin Soccer Youth Academy" founded to train the children in the ten years the kick. Morning punches and kicks rotation practice, afternoon corners and interjections. The term "high leg" gets a whole new meaning here. "Chinese football is experiencing a downturn, we need new influences.
Kung fu and soccer are similar in some respects, both in need courage and diligence, "said head coach Shi Yanlu. The children had through its experience in martial arts good conditions, for example, good footwork and excellent body coordination. They still train on a meadow and in a hall, playing fields are missing.
The goal is still clear: They should be professional footballers. Goal threat and dribbling like Cristiano Ronaldo, agile and fast as Bruce Lee. "The soccer school will be just the beginning. We will soon build playing fields and firmly believe that some of our students will one day be superstars, "says Shi Yanlu.
The Chinese Association considers the enthusiasm out of the crisis as an opportunity. In the rankings of the World Association of China occupies only Fifa ranking 76th The national team has qualified only once for a world championship, 2002, she failed in Japan and South Korea in the preliminary round.
China's soccer has also struggled with corruption - and above all a problem coming. People interested in but for the sport. But in the schools there are not a football in gym class, hardly a place in the cities, the best players in the league are foreigners. The hope is the Shaolin Academy.
"It's a great attempt. We support him, "says Wang Suisheng, manager of Premier League clubs Henan Jianye. By the national association was given the Academy recently donated one thousand footballs. What students can do anything that shows them a former Bundesliga player: Alphonse Tchami, 39 The former national player of Cameroon reached peak 1997 and 1999 for Hertha BSC.
A world traveler, who played in Denmark, Argentina, Scotland, France, Dubai, Russia and finally landed in China. Here the two-time World Cup participant was known for his goals for the club Shenyang Jinde. After Tchami had finished his career, made the leaders of the Kung Fu school him an offer: Help us to give the Chinese football a new incentive.
He accepted. "I have a contract for five years, I signed because I am absolutely convinced of the project," says Tchami the "Welt am Sonntag." He divided the students into two teams, with whom he trains twice a day. Only on Sundays they have free. "Shaolin Kung Fu, the student has made strong.
They have made very good prefixing and the first units of a great impression on me, "says Tchami. As often as possible, he visited with them in the first division games. "You should see how does professional football." After a certain period of training Tchami then plans to send the best students to Europe.
They will train in the best clubs. So far, playing in Hao Junmin, 24, FC Schalke 04 only one Chinese in the Bundesliga. So convinced as Tchami are not all experts in China by the Shaolin Soccer Academy. That was just a silly attempt by the government to advertise the country and the sport, critics say.
Behind closed doors, as usual in China. Even the work of the world famous temple is quite frowned upon. If its 200 monks but far from entrepreneurs who make huge revenues: You have made the Shaolin trademark, the temple should even go public. The monks give seminars, go to major shows on tour and best of all foster contacts - even in the sport.
Abbot Shi Yongxin, the highest Buddhist dignitaries invited China, FIFA president Joseph Blatter for the 2006 World Cup final to Germany. "There are many similarities between football and kung fu. Both are combative sports where the team spirit is very important, "said Yongxin. Near his temple, he found a 2,000 year old stone relief from where does a man with his foot for something that resembles a ball.
This could be quite cheap as a sign, he says, Kung Fu and football go together. Also one of the best German fighter is convinced that training with Shaolin fighters bring forward any footballer. Brunke Bast, 43, was, 2005 Kung-Fu World Champion and says: "Our sport can boost a football player's performance by twenty percent." He was often in China and has been in contact with the Shaolin, in Hamburg, he heads for 19 years, a martial arts school.
"In Kung Fu, an athlete will learn to subordinate everything to his goal. We also can use meditation to increase the oxygen content in the blood. Thus, the athlete is more concentrated, I call it psycho-doping, "says Bast. The Kung-Fu trend has already made its way into the German football, a Hamburg Brast trained amateur team.
The aim was to "fear liberation." With exercises, he brings about that the player does not turn away from the ball when they make a kick a wall and freed to go in tackles. "The guys are mentally stronger and learn to not lose his composure. A kung fu fighter would never get a red card "Unless he jumps ahead with the extended leg in the audience, as it was once the angry Eric Cantona did ...
Also a Bundesliga player has Brast already trained. Benedict Pliquett, Keeper the riser FC? Pauli was, many times in his school. "These special exercises to help me in one-on-one situations. You learn them long to stop and turn away not from reflection, "said the goalkeeper. Even the Shaolin Temple Germany is working with athletes.
Four years ago, trained two champions before the Olympic Games in Beijing, the German Team Beijing 2008 ", including canoeing champion Bjorn Goldschmidt. Would like to train the monks in Germany with footballers. The Berlin Abbot Shi Yong Chuan, Shaolin highest in Europe, look regularly at matches in the Bundesliga.
The fact that Jurgen Klinsmann as coach of FC Bayern Munich had erected three years ago, Buddha-stowing on the club grounds liked the monks. An employee of the Shaolin Temple in Berlin, wrote the club a letter. It offered the monks to train with the team. They wanted to show the players a few tricks.
So far, the FC Bayern has not responded. It is in "Shaolin Soccer" but, "There is only one way to win. With Shaolin" Collaboration: Johnny Erling 
And is almost unparalleled. A Chinese kung fu school wants the fictional story now as much as possible into reality. It forms from 40 of its approximately 2,000 students to football players, next to the 1500 year old Shaolin Temple, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is considered the cradle of Buddhism and Kung Fu.
In Henan province some master's training center "Shaolin Soccer Youth Academy" founded to train the children in the ten years the kick. Morning punches and kicks rotation practice, afternoon corners and interjections. The term "high leg" gets a whole new meaning here. "Chinese football is experiencing a downturn, we need new influences.
Kung fu and soccer are similar in some respects, both in need courage and diligence, "said head coach Shi Yanlu. The children had through its experience in martial arts good conditions, for example, good footwork and excellent body coordination. They still train on a meadow and in a hall, playing fields are missing.
The goal is still clear: They should be professional footballers. Goal threat and dribbling like Cristiano Ronaldo, agile and fast as Bruce Lee. "The soccer school will be just the beginning. We will soon build playing fields and firmly believe that some of our students will one day be superstars, "says Shi Yanlu.
The Chinese Association considers the enthusiasm out of the crisis as an opportunity. In the rankings of the World Association of China occupies only Fifa ranking 76th The national team has qualified only once for a world championship, 2002, she failed in Japan and South Korea in the preliminary round.
China's soccer has also struggled with corruption - and above all a problem coming. People interested in but for the sport. But in the schools there are not a football in gym class, hardly a place in the cities, the best players in the league are foreigners. The hope is the Shaolin Academy.
"It's a great attempt. We support him, "says Wang Suisheng, manager of Premier League clubs Henan Jianye. By the national association was given the Academy recently donated one thousand footballs. What students can do anything that shows them a former Bundesliga player: Alphonse Tchami, 39 The former national player of Cameroon reached peak 1997 and 1999 for Hertha BSC.
A world traveler, who played in Denmark, Argentina, Scotland, France, Dubai, Russia and finally landed in China. Here the two-time World Cup participant was known for his goals for the club Shenyang Jinde. After Tchami had finished his career, made the leaders of the Kung Fu school him an offer: Help us to give the Chinese football a new incentive.
He accepted. "I have a contract for five years, I signed because I am absolutely convinced of the project," says Tchami the "Welt am Sonntag." He divided the students into two teams, with whom he trains twice a day. Only on Sundays they have free. "Shaolin Kung Fu, the student has made strong.
They have made very good prefixing and the first units of a great impression on me, "says Tchami. As often as possible, he visited with them in the first division games. "You should see how does professional football." After a certain period of training Tchami then plans to send the best students to Europe.
They will train in the best clubs. So far, playing in Hao Junmin, 24, FC Schalke 04 only one Chinese in the Bundesliga. So convinced as Tchami are not all experts in China by the Shaolin Soccer Academy. That was just a silly attempt by the government to advertise the country and the sport, critics say.
Behind closed doors, as usual in China. Even the work of the world famous temple is quite frowned upon. If its 200 monks but far from entrepreneurs who make huge revenues: You have made the Shaolin trademark, the temple should even go public. The monks give seminars, go to major shows on tour and best of all foster contacts - even in the sport.
Abbot Shi Yongxin, the highest Buddhist dignitaries invited China, FIFA president Joseph Blatter for the 2006 World Cup final to Germany. "There are many similarities between football and kung fu. Both are combative sports where the team spirit is very important, "said Yongxin. Near his temple, he found a 2,000 year old stone relief from where does a man with his foot for something that resembles a ball.
This could be quite cheap as a sign, he says, Kung Fu and football go together. Also one of the best German fighter is convinced that training with Shaolin fighters bring forward any footballer. Brunke Bast, 43, was, 2005 Kung-Fu World Champion and says: "Our sport can boost a football player's performance by twenty percent." He was often in China and has been in contact with the Shaolin, in Hamburg, he heads for 19 years, a martial arts school.
"In Kung Fu, an athlete will learn to subordinate everything to his goal. We also can use meditation to increase the oxygen content in the blood. Thus, the athlete is more concentrated, I call it psycho-doping, "says Bast. The Kung-Fu trend has already made its way into the German football, a Hamburg Brast trained amateur team.
The aim was to "fear liberation." With exercises, he brings about that the player does not turn away from the ball when they make a kick a wall and freed to go in tackles. "The guys are mentally stronger and learn to not lose his composure. A kung fu fighter would never get a red card "Unless he jumps ahead with the extended leg in the audience, as it was once the angry Eric Cantona did ...
Also a Bundesliga player has Brast already trained. Benedict Pliquett, Keeper the riser FC? Pauli was, many times in his school. "These special exercises to help me in one-on-one situations. You learn them long to stop and turn away not from reflection, "said the goalkeeper. Even the Shaolin Temple Germany is working with athletes.
Four years ago, trained two champions before the Olympic Games in Beijing, the German Team Beijing 2008 ", including canoeing champion Bjorn Goldschmidt. Would like to train the monks in Germany with footballers. The Berlin Abbot Shi Yong Chuan, Shaolin highest in Europe, look regularly at matches in the Bundesliga.
The fact that Jurgen Klinsmann as coach of FC Bayern Munich had erected three years ago, Buddha-stowing on the club grounds liked the monks. An employee of the Shaolin Temple in Berlin, wrote the club a letter. It offered the monks to train with the team. They wanted to show the players a few tricks.
So far, the FC Bayern has not responded. It is in "Shaolin Soccer" but, "There is only one way to win. With Shaolin" Collaboration: Johnny Erling
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