FC Zulu
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| FC Zulu | |
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 FC Zulu logo |
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| Genre | Reality television |
| Creator(s) | Palle Strøm Keld Reinicke |
| Starring | Mark Strudal |
| Country of origin | Denmark |
| No. of episodes | 24 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 25 Minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | TV 2 Zulu |
| Original run | September 13, 2004 – October 30, 2006 |
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FC Zulu is a Danish television program on TV 2 Zulu of the FC Nerds format. It tells the story about 16 nerds, who never had touched a football, trained in 2004 in three months, for afterwards to play against FCK in PARKEN. Against all odds were the able to score a goal. This year returns the incapable nerds, again leaded by the coach duo, Mark Strudal and TNT. This time is the opponent nobody but the Swedish FC Zulu-copy FC Z who FC Zulu beat 6-0.
In 2005 were they nominated for an Emmy for best 'Non-Scripted-Entertainment', but didn't win.
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[edit] 2005 Squad
- 1. Dani Østergaard
- 2. Lars Paludan-Müller
- 4. Mikkel Erichsen
- 5. Isaack Rasmussen
- 6. Kaare Madsen
- 7. Kenny Bro
- 8. Thomas Rivière
- 9. Morten Eggers
- 10. Emil Pedersen
- 11. Claus Raasted
- 12. Michael Ulrik Stobbe
- 13. Martin Nielsen
- 14. Bo Bendtsen
- 15. Jan Farberov
- 17. Claus Hjelm
- 18. Daniel Szylit
[edit] 2006 Squad
- 1. Uffe Pedersen (Keeper)
- 2. Lars Paludan-Müller
- 4. Mikkel Erichsen
- 5. Isaack Rasmussen
- 6. Kaare Madsen
- 7. Kenny Bro
- 8. Claus Hjelm
- 9. Morten Eggers
- 10. Daniel Szylit
- 11. Uffe Pedersen
- 12. Michael Ulrik Stobbe
- 13. Martin Nielsen
- 14. Anders Mygind Christensen
- 15. Jan Farberov
- 16. Peter Niebling
- 17. Morten Kongsfelt
- 18. Anders Mygind Christensen (Keeper)
[edit] Episode guide
[edit] Season one
[edit] Episode 1
One ball, 16 cones. - 16 nerds, who never had touched a football, should top-train in three months, whereupon they will play against FCK in PARKEN. In the front as coach is the former national team player and goal-king Mark Strudal. FC Zulu consists of a pack of logical thinking computer nerds, role players and a single politician. When the players first time meet their coach Mark Strudal, come it to realize for them, that it definitely not is a delicate children colony, they have signed up for. First challenge: A training match against a teenage girl team from Skovlunde. Result: A shocked Mark Strudal.
[edit] Episode 2
Strudal is tired of the nerds' intellectual debating society on the pitch. They must learn to act as a team. Therefore sends he them on a teambuilding trip to Lejre. Strudal has moreover a hidden agenda - he wants to find the team's captain on the trip. Dressed in Viking clothes and small leather moccasins should FC ZULU in two day be a close-knit unit. The solidarity is for real on trial, when one of the players is kidnapped by five hostile riders and hung out over "The Victin Bog".
[edit] Episode 3
The boys are gradually well started with the training, but they should also learn to sell themselves as a real football team. They should therefore definitely have a battle song à la "Re-Sepp-Ten". With Signe Svendsen as FC Zulu's own "Dodo" go the team in the studio, but there is a surprise for the boys - they should not only use their a bit rusty song voices, but their condition will also be tested, when it come to realize for them, that a real music video (of course) also has both fancy dacing scenes and hot girls.
[edit] Episode 4
One ball, 16 cones. - 16 nerds, who never had touched a football, should top-train in three months, whereupon they will play against FCK i PARKEN - a scenario, which all the players fears. To learn them to watch the fear in the eyes, sends Mark Strudal his team into Vridsløselille State Prison to play against the prisoners. The prisoners' team consists of murder- and narco- prisoners, so the panic in FC Zulu spreads, when the players see their opponents for the first time. Can referee Kim Milton control the prisoners?
[edit] Episode 5
The players doesn't have much wildness, e.g. excuse they still graciously, if they are running into each other on the pitch by accident. A desperate coach Strudal sends the nerds on re-education at the male therapist Carl-Mar Møller. A decision, which makes the intellectual Zulu-nerds so angry, that they in secret plans a surprise, who makes even Carl-Mar gape.
[edit] Episode 6
Nerds are often superintelligent - but are more interested in computers than the latest trends. It must be different, if the players should charm the female fans in Parken. Strudal sends the players to make-over at Zulu's "Modepatrulje" (Danish: Fashion Patrol), who gives the players a "lovely" treatment. There is a big surprise for the nerds' families, when they later appear with the right Beckham-look on the red runner in Imperial Cinema.
[edit] Episode 7
So are we there soon - the nerds from FC Zulu should very soon play the big match in Parken against the FCK-lions. Even though Strudal has used all strengths into the training, the players are still a bit doubtful on the pitch. Strudal has therefore asked two earlier, known Brøndby-players to help, to give FC Zulu tips about how to beat FCK. The boys should moreover play faith match against the girl junior team, they met on their very first day as FC Zulu-players. The players are keen to beat the girls and they give all, they got inside.
[edit] Episode 8
So is it the big day, where the form for real should be tested, and Mark Strudal should find out if all the hard training have borne fruit: Today should FC Zulu meet the FCK-lions in Parken in front of thousands of spectators. The players are been accommodated on a hotel, just like real footballers, and we follow their preparations and anger attacks from early morning to when they are on the pitch in front of the lions. Will their exertions bear fruit? Can FC Zulu beat FCK on their home ground in Parken?
[edit] FC Zulu vs. FCK All-stars
FC Zulu 1-6 FCK All-stars
[edit] Season two
[edit] Episode 1
In FC Zulu's first season as a football team, they have been permitted to go through things - they never had dreamed about. Now meets Mark Strudal again his FC Zulu team after the winter break. And he is shocked. The nerds are again totally out of shape - and they have additionally got a lot of star crotches, because they now are famous. But Strudal has a cunning plan, as the nerds not had expected.
[edit] Episode 2
The nerds on the country. How will the old players receive the four new heavyrock-interessered players? The team's coach Mark Strudal means, that his team should get together before they for real start a new, hard season. FC Zulu taker therefore so far out on the country, as you almost can come, namely to Gåser in Northern Jutland, where the farmer Mogens Mortensen knows, how you makes the right team spirit: All it needs is just a little bit of horses, pigs, cows and sheeps.
[edit] Episode 3
It is totaly wrong with the condition, the dripples and the ball feeling at the FC Zulu-players. What will happened, when the nerds, there badly can dripple, should play in front of filled stands in the decisive match against the Swedish nerd-team? When it is the nation's honour, there are risked, plans Mark Strudal a daring plan: Ball jugglers and circus artist should teach FC Zulu body- and ball control. And where is the press more merciless than in Circus Benneweis' ring?
[edit] Episode 4
The nerds' discipline to the football traning is bad. Very bad. And Mark Strudal is been so frustrated over their lax pose, that he sends them on "re-education" in the Life Guards. But none of the nerds likes that-is-just-how-it-is-education - and in short time succeed it the 16 football cones, to get the sergeants on Høvelte barracks go crazy.
[edit] Episode 5
The rumours says, that the Swedish nerds, as FC Zulu should play national game against, is some big guys, there are ready to smash FC Zulu. Mark Strudal let the earlier american football-player and -coach Claus Elming have his team, who promises, that he will give FC Zulu a hardness, brutality and cynicism, as they never will forget. Later should FC Zulu play match against some terrifying rocks.
[edit] Episode 6
The important national game against the Swedes is just around the corner. Therefore decides Mark Strudal, that the boys should be toptuned on a training stay in foreign countries. But the nerds is more minded on relaxing and holiday than training. For the first time i the progress loses Mark Strudal courage - and with that is FC Zulu on way to the precipice. Strudal has namely planned, that FC Zulu should play their first international match.
[edit] Episode 7
Not yet available.
[edit] Episode 8
Not yet available.
[edit] FC Zulu vs. FC Z
FC Zulu (Denmark) 6-0 FC Z (Sweden)
[edit] FC Zulu vs. Tufte IL
FC Zulu (Denmark) 4-0 Tufte IL (Norway)
[edit] FC Zulu vs. Paketes FC
FC Zulu (Denmark) 2-0 Paketes FC (Spain)
