Eric Martinos (Aka Martin/Eric) is one of the main antagonist of the show. He is Madun's rival in the field. Martin also the son of the richest person in the village, Udin Nganga.
He is mainly a cocky person who is a cruel leader, however in Season 2, he does much less of his cocky behavior. This was finally changed in Season 3, when he has grow friendlier and more sportive.
Appearance[]
Martin has an ordinary Indonesian people look with lighter skin and relatively tall posture. His hair are significantly more curly than Madun's, and sometimes he tie it. He is one year older than Madun.
Personality[]
Just like Syafe'i, Martin's personality varies greatly between seasons. It may be caused by some various events which changed his personality. Martin have tendency to yell whenever he speak with others. His personality is completely different with Zaenab, his little sister.
Tendangan Si Madun 1[]
Martin is a cocky and arrogant person, often blaming his team after a loss. He also kinda bossy. Martin is a kind of person that will do anything to win, even with a way that is exceeding common sense, just like his father did. In some episodes, he has seemed turned kind, but become cocky and cruel again later. It's unknown that he will turned into a pure-hearted person or not. Martin often shows his humorous side whenever he talk to his father. He is also shown as the least religious person of the main characters. Martin seem to became lazier and less humorous as the story goes.
Tendangan Si Madun 2[]
Martin still retained his cocky personality, but he often mentoring his team about good manners, especially to the cockier Willy so he is more like an anti-hero. When he joined Malaysian national team, his speak tone changes to Malay dialect as opposed to his usual Betawi.
Tendangan Si Madun 3[]
Martin is shown to be changed in Season 3. He has grew much friendlier than before, as seen he hangs out with Madun in Episode 3 of Season 3. Despite this, Martin has been shown to have a short temper, as seen Haris is taunting him about him not being Udin Nganga's biological son. Despite this, Martin also known to obtain sportive behavior, as he tries to give Haris a lesson about bot being sportive in matches. Although sometimes cocky, Martin is still kind.
Story[]
Tendangan Si Madun 1[]
Martin is the captain of Team Jumbo Crocodile. He is a cocky and cruel leader, until Rizal, Fatur and Ruslan (Kempes) decided to go out. Martin does anything to make him win, E:g: Bribing money for other team, giving forbidden drink to East Jakarta's team, kidnapping Fatur's uncle, and giving Fatur's uncle a drink to make Fatur's uncle's losing his voice. He is weaker at the first, but he has gotten stronger in the next.
Despite often shown as having good skill at football, Martin gets envious seeing acrobatic tricks used by other teams. This led him to recruit Willy as his technical coach. However he gave up on trying acrobatic moves after injuring himself. Martin gets injured on many other times, he broke his hands against team Kelapa Muda after getting overtrained a night before while Udin refuses to substitute him. His jaw also injured by Kelapa Muda's strike a week before said match. He get injured again when harassed by Team Bikers sometime in the inter-district tournament, then he get a waist injury before a match against Pondok Kopi. Martin with his teams are beaten up by a punk gang after they get misunderstood as members of other gang.
Martin constantly get rejected from his RT, RW, village, and district selections. He relies on Udin's influence to let him join other teams, along with most of his recurring teammates.
Martin doesn't agree with Udin's decision to marry their housekeeper Surti, mostly because Surti is Bruceli's mom.
Before inter-district tournament, the head of Pondok Kelapa district arranged a joint team between Team Madun and Team Martin on a friendly match against team Wushu. Martin and Udin strongly objected this, but had to unwillingly follow the headman's order. To prevent Madun from attending the match, Martin set up a scandal by ordering an agent to accuse Madun for stealing his phone. The plan is fairly succesful, but before the match started, the agent leaked Martin's plan to the audiences. The agent bertrayed Martin because Martin paid him too low for such riskful act. On the match, Martin tries to take the ball from Madun's feet despite being teammates. But Pondok Kelapa still won eventually.
After a friendly match against Team Busker of Pondok Kopi, Martin's teammates starting to refuse his order, leaving Martin and Willy to be ganged by members of Pondok Kopi. Martin is kidnapped and forced to give his congratulation to Pondok Kopi and admit his defeat, along with letting him be dressed like a punk, which Martin eventually enjoyed. Martin ordered his team to wear punk makeup like him for a moment, but this made them being misunderstood as a member of a violent punk gang, which made the team got beaten up by another gang.
Martin again use his trickery against Pondok Jahe, at first he use a fishnet to trap the team and defame Madun, but doesn't successful. He used similar trick to Hasan of Pondok Kurma by using a sandbag pendulum to injure him and defame Madun again. The plan initially succeded, but when Zaenab threatened to spoil his plan to Pondok Kurma, Martin got panicked and rushing to Pondok Kurma to protect his name. This act make Pondok Kurma to be suspicious of Martin, and once again foil his plan. Before the first match agains Pondok Jahe, Martin take both team on a treat. He offered poisoned drink to Pondok Jahe, but failed as Rizal and Fatur mistakenly drink those. Pondok Duren had to suffer 0-3 loss due to Rizal and Fatur's terrible form.
Udin ordered Martin to stop play dirty in the second match against Pondok Jahe. Martin seems to found his training spirit again, but he gets too cocky for trying to show his imperfect Thousand Shadow Kick against Team Rocker. The match against Pondok Jahe seem to goes well on Pondok Duren side, but Martin's poor performance made Udin taken him out for the first time.
Tendangan Si Madun 2[]
Martin is now a member of Malaysian team. Later he is a temporary member of a team due to him being contracted for 5 years, but later goes back to his own team.
Tendangan Si Madun 3[]
Martin is one of Team Golden Eagle's members now. It is also revealed in Season 3 that Martin is not Udin Nganga's biological son, which is the one that constantly distract Martin. Martin is also shown to be friendlier compared to the last two seasons, and started a friendship between Madun.
Techniques[]
Martin's skill is bit similar to Madun's, albeit clearly weaker. He is good at dribbling, shooting, and able to do simple scissor kick. But he's rarely doing flick while doing slide tackle quite often. Martin doesn't have skill at doing acrobatic tricks like Willy or many other players, as he injured himself by doing simple front flip and handstand.
Martin seem to be weaker since he injured in the inter-village tournament. It is probably a result of his lack of training.
- Shadow Kick (Tendangan Bayangan). An accurate kick done by heightening the user's senses, even when the user had is eyes covered. There are multiple version of the kick used by Madun and Martin alike. Martin learned the move from Claudio.
- Thousand Shadows Kick (Tendangan Seribu Bayangan). A kick where the ball seemingly split into many balls at once. Martin learned the move from Beta.
- Anger Kick (Tendangan Amarah). A powerful enough kick to knock down Sumo. Martin used this once on a training.
- Together Kick (W/ Team Jumbo Crocodile)
Relationship[]
Anisah[]
Anisah is considered as Martin's love interest. Martin cares about Anisah, and tend to be jealous deeply to Madun in the second season, due to Anisah has a stronger relationship with Madun. Despite often being declined, Martin cares deeply about Anisah.
When Mr. Udin told Anisah to leave their house, Martin states that Mr. Udin has do an unreasonable thing. And even when Martin is doing a flashback of Anisah leaves their house, he can't concentrate to a match.
Madun[]
Madun and Martin has a bad relationship. Although Madun always nice to him, Martin seems disrespect him. And their relationship starts to grow when Martin somewhat has changed, but when he began to act cocky again, their relationship was bad again. In Tendangan si Madun 2, Martin tends to be jealous to Madun due to Anisah has a stronger relationship with Madun. However in Tendangan Si Madun 3, their relationship starts to grow as they are the same member in one team, and started a friendship.
Bule[]
In Tendangan Si Madun 1, Martin treated Firman as much he treats Madun as a poor people. He did the same in Tendangan Si Madun 2, but appeared to be friendly to him when Firman is temporarily in his team.
However in Tendangan Si Madun 3, as Firman is Martin's brother, he cares about him very much and do much willingness to protect him, whenever Aris bullied Bule. Bule also shows appreciation to him as his elder brother. Overall, their relationship improves from season to season.
Portrayal[]
Martin is played by Baron Yusuf Siregar. Previously he starred in Garuda di Dadaku movie and Ronaldowati TV Series.
Trivia[]
- Martin is actually an alter-name. Martin's real name is Eric.
- Martin's favorite football club is Manchester United. He also hates FC Barcelona.
- His strength life is same like Kenta Yumiya from Metal Fight Beyblade, weaker at first and stronger at next. The different is, he is an antagonist, and Kenta is a protagonist.
- Martin is quite talented player at the start of the series, and his team reach finals in every tournament he's participating. But he's never able to qualified to represent the team of his home region for unknown reason. It is probably caused by his lack of attitude, or he is never being a skilled player to begin with.
- In Tendangan Si Madun 2, he is not an antagonist anymore, instead an anti-hero because he doesn't like to be cocky anymore.
- Another reason why he is an anti-hero in the new season, because he has a crush on Anisah, a daughter of Ms. Mariam, the servant in Mr. Udin's house.
- Martin is the second character in the series to have his personalities varied between seasons. The first being Syafe'i.