Bruceli

Bruceli is a minor main character and the goalkeeper of Team Golden Eagle. He maybe untrusted in height, but excellent in goalkeeping.

Appearance
Bruceli has an ordinary Indonesian people look with short body and distinct glare look. He wears long training suit of various colors almost everyday, even outside match. In school, Bruceli wears a sideway cap. It is not known if Bruceli has natural short stature or it's because he is much younger than his teammates.

In the first season, Bruceli's age is 8 years old.

Personality
Little known about Bruceli's personality. But, he is a very brave yet kind boy. However, he's shown some short-temper issues as seen when he feels outrivaled by Kevin, a new goalkeeper and becomes a substitute goalkeeper in Tendangan Si Madun 2. Bruceli and his teammates also shown some act of arrogances, like provoking opponent teams outside of match multiple times. He is also tend to express his frustration when he conceded a goal. Bruceli once admitted that he slacks in regular shalat, but he still trying to learn Islam with Madun and others.

Bruceli is very protective and obedient to his mother Surti, who teaches Bruceli to avoid violence.

Bruceli has habit of doing spin before he catch a ball and using frontward punch and parrying move to deflect incoming ball. He also showing fighting stance and the iconic nose-wiping gesture when he plays.

Story
Bruceli is the only son of Surti, the housekeeper of Udin Nganga. Bruceli is also Hendra's nephew, who personally trained him art of self defence.

Bruceli debuted in episode 5 as goalkeeper of RT 2, sometimes called as the "kungfu team". His team were beaten by team Martin of RT 10. In episode 7 before the second round of inter-RT final, Bruceli along with Enju and Asep offered themselves to join team Madun of RT 1. The trio were the first acrobatic players to join Madun's team.

In the inter-RW tournament, Bruceli supposed to be subtitute goalkeeper for RW 1. But he's trusted to be starting goalkeeper in most matches.

In the Mayor Cup before match against Team Pondok Kurma, Bruceli beg Hendra to train him harder, this resulted in Bruceli's arm heavily injured before the match. In the match Bruceli suffered greater injuries due to him forcing himself to block incoming ball. Bruceli is sentenced with amputation by doctor, which made him very depressed.

Bruceli is seen tracking for his long-lost father. Finally he meets his stepfather, Old Bruceli. He also seen having several problems in his family, when his mother suddenly disappears, and his stepfather and uncle always fighting each other. Despite he has some problems in his family, he always ready to help whenever a match. When thinking a problem come to his stepfather, Bruceli seems getting weaker (sorry to say this).

Tendangan Si Madun 2
Bruceli still retained his job at Team Golden Eagle, being a goalkeeper. However, when he is replaced by Kevin, he possibly joined a new team as seen in the yesterday episode. He possess strong disliking to Madun as seen in the current episodes, due to he is changing teams.

Abilities
Like many goalkeeper in the series, Bruceli's goalkeeping skills doesn't quite shines. But Bruceli has a well trained kungfu skill both barehand and armed, enough to defeat members of team Shaolin.

Bruceli also got strong and flexible legs, he favors extreme training method like doing a split between two separate chairs or hanging himself with his legs on the goalpost.

Techniques

 * Cleaver Kick
 * Fullpower Kick. A powerful kick learnt from Hendra. Bruceli used the technique to score a goal from his own goal area in opening match of Mayor Cup in episode 33.

Trivia

 * Bruceli is only the member of Team Golden Eagle to not change ordinary clothes (Except when a match) in one day.
 * His name and appearance are most likely inspired by American-Chinese actor Bruce Lee.
 * According to some source, Bruceli's real name is Rusli.
 * His age is said to be 8 years old in the first season. But he went to the same middle school as Madun, perhaps as first or second year student. That means Bruceli is at least 3 years younger than any common middle school student.
 * Bruceli is the shortest major member of Team Golden Eagle. Firman is a little bit taller than him. But his goalkeeping skills are excellent.
 * Bruceli is the only character in Tendangan si Madun who make an appearence in another TV series. He appeared in one episode of Si Miskin dan Si Kaya.
 * Bruceli's personality is mimicking to somewhat [| Gumball Watterson]'s personality from The Amazing World of Gumball.
 * Both has a big ego and sensitive side.
 * They sometimes can turned into a serious, loyal and kind-hearted.