H. Syafe'i

H. Syafei (also known as Syafii or Pii) is Madun's father who is a religious scholar. He wants Madun to become a religious scholar just like him. Because of that he will do anything to stop Madun from becoming a soccer player.

Appearance
Syafe'i has an ordinary Indonesian people look on his 40s, he has a beard, and often wear a violet peci. He has quite tall body and lighter skin than other characters of his age.

Early life
Syafe'i was born in Medan, North Sumatra. His father is an ulama. Once a soccer loving kid, he missed regular salat and qira'at with his father due to playing soccer. Syafe'i's last time of playing soccer is when his father passed away in a car crash as he was playing soccer in the heavy rain. Thinking his hobby has made him lose his father, he promised to never playing soccer again when he visited his father's grave.

Personality
Syafe'i's personality varies greatly between seasons. In Tendangan Si Madun 1, he is very stubborn, but it completely changed afer the events that happened to him in the last episode of Season 1.

Unlike other characters which have Betawi background, Syafe'i speaks with what probably a slight Medanese Malay dialect.

Tendangan Si Madun 1
He is kind and cheerful towards everyone, even Udin. He is a very romantic man, teasing and joking to Kirana whenever she gets jealous. But he turns to be sarcastic whenever someone respond him negatively, often comparing them with a non-believer or irreligious person. Syafe'i has a habit of using salam to abruptly leaving unfavored conversation. As an ustaz, Syafe'i is a very religious person, always having salam whenever he met someone and regularly doing salat in mosque.

Despite being so romantic and very adept at suppressing the anger of his wife in earlier episodes, Syafe'i is shown to be insensitive of his wife's feeling in inter-village tournament onwards. He never feel sorry for gazing with other women especially Aisyah. Syafe'i also a very envious person just like Kirana, he will be angry when Kirana having chat with Udin after knowing Udin tried to flirt her.

Syafe'i is a stubborn man that hate soccer. He will get angry easily, especially when Madun plays soccer, as he sees soccer as a bad hobby that could make someone neglect Islamic teaching. However, he always turns happy when seeing Madun reading Quran. He is also a forgiving person, he never show his anger or sarcastic attitude nor bringing up past problems whenever Madun and Kirana turned to obey him.

Tendangan Si Madun 2
Syafe'i had changed in the new season since a car crash happened to him at the last season. He is happier than in the last season, and did not get angry easily. He is more patient than in the last season.

Tendangan Si Madun 3
Syafe'i retains his stubborn personality from Season 1, although he has been shown to have more patience compared to Season 1, as seen he doesn't get angry much easily. He is also shown to flirt with Mariam, a young woman. His personality in Season 3 is much like Season 1, however he is much more patient.

However, he later retained his personality from Season 2, as seen he now currently supports Madun for playing soccer. He becomes increasingly care and proud of him. Now, Syafe'i is more kind, patient and caring.

Story
In the series, Syafe'i is a religious scholar who despises soccer. He thinks Madun must read Al-Quran all of the time, as an exercise for Madun to be ulama. He is seen having a crush on Mrs. Aisyah, making Kirana, his wife, becoming jealous. Syafe'i talks to them in a total discrimination: if he is talking to Mrs. Aisyah, he talks in a nice voice - whom he claimed as a guest manners. But if he is talking with Kirana, he talks in a brute voice. Sometimes, he is seen doing soccer a little, but only to defend himself against the cruel team's attack. He not only despises soccer, but he also despises become a religious scholar in TV. Example, he is angry when Madun trying to become a junior religious scholar in a TV show. Syafe'i also despises Madun to pay their debts, because he don't like Madun paying debts by resources of soccer, causing Madun's hard works become useless. In the yesterday episode, he got a car crash in a big rain. It's unknown what happened to him now.

Tendangan Si Madun 2
Like stated above, Syafe'i has changed in the new season. He prefers to support Madun. He is not an antagonist anymore, and he is a supporting character. Rather than becoming a religious scholar like in the last season, now he is an angkot driver.

Tendangan Si Madun 3
Unlike the second season, Syafe'i once again despises soccer. He scolds Madun for playing soccer numerous times, although it is not as much as the first season. However later, Syafe'i supports Madun for playing soccer, much like in the second season.

Madun
As Madun's father, Syafe'i deeply cares about him. He never felt displeased of anything Madun doing, except for football. He did many things to prevent Madun play football, including some of hard punishment. But Syafe'i never use violence to nurture him ever since Madun born.

Kirana
Kirana is Syafe'i's wife, she is very protective towards his husband and son. Unlike Syafe'i, Kirana supports Madun to be footballer, and tries to convince her husband to allow Madun follow his dream. Kirana feel jealous whenever Syafe'i speaking to Mrs. Aisyah. Starting from the inter-village tournament to the Mayor Cup, Syafe'i's relation with Kirana seem to be fractured, and Kirana often explicitly allow Madun playing football in front of Syafe'i.

Udin Nganga
Syafe'i sees Udin as his close friend. He always nice to Udin even after Udin lying to Syafe'i and ignore his teaching. Syafe'i always laughs when he see Udin's antics. Syafe'i treatment to Udin changed after Udin try to flirt with Kirana. Syafe'i always seem to mad whenever he sees Udin afterward.

Mrs. Aisyah
Syafe'i respects Mrs. Aisyah as his guest and Madun's teacher. While Syafe'i never feel any perversion nor try to flirt to Aisyah, his admiration of Aisyah's look and personality made him involuntarily act too soft compared to his other acquaitances. On the other side, Aisyah also sees Syafe'i as a model of an ideal romantic partner. Aisyah consults Syafe'i for his romantic problem, but her hesitant attitude sparked a big misunderstanding between Syafe'i and Kirana.

Rayhan
Rayhan is one of the few local character to call Syafe'i as "Mr Ustaz".

Techniques
Although Syafe'i hardly plays soccer, he does have some techniques.


 * Allahu Akbar Kick
 * Angry Father Kick

Trivia

 * Despite being a highly religious person, his role on the story can be referred as an antagonist. This is ironic because he is the father of the main protagonist, Madun. This is also unique case among most Indonesian movies and TV series.
 * Oddly, Syafe'i never seen doing preaching in mosque nor teaching Quran outside his family, despite his job as an ustaz.
 * Syafe'i has some skill in physiotherapist massage, which he used to treat Martin's injury.
 * He seems never been satisfied by Madun's hard works.
 * It's unknown that he will become a deuteragonist or not.
 * Most kids in the village call him "bang Pii". Bang is commonly used to call a young male person or an older brother, as opposed to "Pak" which suit better for a person over 40 years old. However this is a common practice in some Betawi communities, which most Indonesian people would see it as impolite. Same thing also happens with many other characters.
 * He prefers to become an angkot driver at the new season, rather than religious scholar in the last season.