Rizal

Rizal is the one of the main antagonist of the show (At first) and a recurring character (Next). He is a member of Martin's team at first, his second team is Magic Eagle, and his third team (Now) is Team 1000 Island.

Appearance

Rizal has an ordinary Indonesian people look with a medium tall and slight bulky body, and now he often seen wearing a white peci. His hair is short with slight wave like Madun. He also has a distinct wide-looking ears.

Personality

At first, Rizal is shown to be a kind and well respected player. Other players admire him for his skill and cool attitude. He doesn't like any cheating or suspicious teams, but use violences against any person he dislike.

Rizal willingly shares his knowledge to others both in football or Quran. He is also a quite religious person. Rizal has a very strong competitive spirit, he continues to challenge Madun to compete their skills, to the point of disturbing Madun and others activity.

Rizal acts cold toward his parents, due to their lack of attention. He also feel uncomfort whenever his mother tries to talk with him. Yet he still somewhat respects them as the duty of a child. Rizal's loose relationship with his parent led him to train alone all day, as he also believes a ball is something he can trust the most.

Rizal's biggest downside is his temper issue, especially whenever any player try to argue against him. Rizal's unstable emotion combined with his strive to beat Madun slowly changes him into a mean and violent player. But he became less arrogant somewhere before the Mayor Cup. Rizal's expression is shown to be stern most of times, but he show a bit of naughty side when he's with Team Martin.

Since he meet Madun, Rizal turned into a very cocky person just like Martin. He is also arrogant and cruel. Rizal assumes Madun is his enemy. After joining a club in his school, Rizal becomes more mature and wiser. He also turned kind.

Story

Rizal debuted in episode 15, he is training alone in the village public gymnasium, attracting curiousity from multiple teams. Rizal always bring his ball whenever he go, including mosque. Ruslan tried to invite him to Team Martin three times, but Rizal rejected because he belongs to another team. It is known later that Rizal supposed to represent Jatipulau village, with his father being its villageman. Rizal once teach Quran and football to Martin on Udin's request. Eventually Rizal joins Team Martin of Kelapa Baru village after Udin helped him turn away the henchmen send by Rizal's father to get him home by force.

At first Rizal get suspicious of team Madun due to them peeking at his training. But Bruceli asked Rizal to be his friend, which Rizal quickly agreed. Despite befriending the rest of Madun's team and being a quite popular footballer of the village, Rizal doesn't aware of Madun's fame. Rizal decided to befriend Madun personally by testing his football skill. The two get along easily at first meet, but Madun's modest attitude and his refusal of Rizal challenge made Rizal to go bitter at him.

Few days before the start of inter-village tournament, Rizal found out that Team Shaolin of Kelapa Muda hiding iron plates in their socks, to injure their opponents. However, Rizal didn't tell anyone about this. The night before his first match against Kelapa Muda, Udin ordered Rizal to train Martin allnight. Rizal decided to skipping the match due to his bad impression of Martin. Fatur advised him to play, as part of Rizal's promise and responsibility to the team. Rizal feel offended at first, he kick a ball to the injured Fatur, but struck his father Rahman instead. Rizal finally joined the match to pay his guilt to Rahman.

Rizal's grudge for Madun is still going, in order to prove he is better than Madun, he challenges Madun to compete in juggle and trick shot, even going as far as disturbing Madun and friends' lunch time. Rizal also personally trained Team Clown to help them beat Team Madun.

Before the Mayor Cup, Rizal's school SMP Ar-Rahman choose him and Madun to represent the school against SMP Mulya Bakti. Rizal totally disagree to play alongside his worst rival, he keep stealing ball from Madun in training to show his frustration. Rizal finally gave up his ego after Ibra from Team Capoeira of Pondok Jengkol advised him to confident in himself. Knowing this, Martin told Rizal to disturb Madun's play on the match. Rizal refuse it as he seen Martin's similar attempt at Kelapa Lama joint team too embarassing. After the match, Rizal seem to soften up his hostility to Team Madun, though he still acknowledge Madun as his enemy.

Rizal is an excellent soccer player, but was blocked by his arrogant and cruel personality. He is the former member of Martin's team. After quit, he is now the leader of team Magic Eagle. He even more cruel than before and always offers strong members of other team to go in his team. Rizal closes up the team after he joined a boarding club in his school. He now becomes a member of Team 1000 Island Team.

Abilities

Rizal has an excellent ball controlling skill, perhaps second only to Madun. He is able to keep juggling a ball while fighting Willy, Ruslan, and the Shaolin players. He also able to do curving shot as well as shooting with his heel multiple times.

Outside the field Rizal is also fluent at reading Quran, even better than Madun.

Techniques

• Anger Kick (Tendangan Amarah). First used by Martin, Rizal used the technique in episode 25 to strike Madun. This move became Rizal's signature technique ever since.

• Very Angry Kick

• Pious Kid Kick

• Boarding Kid Kick

Portrayal

Rizal is portrayed by freestyle footballer Rizal Pamungkas.

Trivia

• Rizal is the first member of team Jumbo Crocodile that decided to quit. The second is Fatur, and the third is Ruslan (Kempes).
• Rizal has a quite wealthy family, though still much less wealthy as Udin Nganga.
• Rizal's personality and physical features had some resemblances to Uruguayan footballer Luis Suarez.
• Rizal went to the same middle school as Team Madun and Zaenab.
• Like Willy and Fatur, Rizal doesn't support act of cheating. But he is shown to enjoy tricking and bullying other teams sometimes.
• His former team, Jatipulau village have different naming theme than most village of the series which always named after a fruit. Indicating Pulojati located in different district than other villages.
• Rizal is one of Madun's ultimate rivals, the others being Martin.
  • This ultimate rival relationship can be seen as the Tendangan si Madun counterpart of Ginga and Kyoya's relationship from Metal Fight Beyblade.
    • However, the only different is Ginga and Kyoya did not end their rivalry while Madun and Rizal does it.