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In the 2001 Hong Kong comedy flick Shaolin Soccer, an amateur football team rises through the ranks thanks to the power of teamwork and a whole lot of kung fu. The primary opponents for Stephen Chow and his ragtag group of martial-art misfits? A team of superhuman soccer players enhanced by science — and drugs.
Nothing illegal or unsavoury is taking place within the Tanjong Katong Primary School (TKPS) football team though. Instead, the inspired commitment to maths, science and data has proven to be an assured method for scoring trophies. It certainly was a winning formula for the team who emerged as champions in the U10 Boys Cup Finals of the Singapore Pools-FAS Inter-School Futsal Challenge back in August.
The architect behind the achievement, however, does not resemble a stereotypical man of science. Good-humoured, easygoing and tremendously modest, teacher and football coach Shahul Hamid has been responsible for blurring the lines between jocks and geeks at the school, translating academic matters in class onto the football field.
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