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Published at 28th of June 2023 07:14:45 AM


Chapter 46

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My Soulmate is a Libero


Budejovice, the last time he heard this name was when Qin Chunxiao was watching a football match. There was a good team here.

The main committee of the event arranged for the athletes a four-star Clarion Hotel, with convenient transportation and a good environment.

Lao Niu had been abroad. Although he was not familiar with the Czech Republic, he still told the children: “The law and order abroad is not as good as in China. You are not allowed to go out at night.”

Qin Chunxiao heard that Xiong Wu and Mao Xunfeng complained: “The ENEL club where Lao Niu stayed was located in Sicily, and I heard that he encountered mafia street fights.”

It seemed that that period of time not only left Lao Niu with abundant coaching experience, but also gave him a heavy psychological shadow.

You Ziyu looked up, confused: “Huh? Lao Niu told us to be careful?”

Seeing that You Ziyu studied medicine until he didn’t know what was around him, his reaction was ten beats slow.

Everyone: …Well, the Qing Dynasty has been dead for more than a hundred years.

Before departure, You Ziyu shaved his beard and even had a refreshing hairstyle to cope with the coming summer heat. The lazy uncle’s feeling faded along with the stubble, and he looked like a handsome boy with a baby face two meters height body.

Who knows how the beard has such a great influence on his temperament.

Qin Chunxiao also changed his image. He hated the feeling of sweat sliding down the corners of his eyes during the game, especially in summer, so he bought a sports headband and wore it. The color was the same as that of his eyes. The light grayish blue was refreshing in summer. .

They were all young lads, with a regular schedule, healthy diet, stronger energy than ordinary people, and the blessing of an athlete’s figure. With a little tidying up, the appearance level exceeded the average.

Like Qin Chunxiao, Mei Xuandong, who was the post-nine-fifth-five-year-old beauty in the entertainment industry, secretly commented that “it’s no worse than me when you clean it up.”, but Qin Chunxiao never accepted other people’s notes.

It was one thing not to understand Czech at all, but Team Xiaoqin was only 16 years old.

But they stayed in Budejovice for a few days, and they hadn’t seen anyone yelling in the street with a gun, but they had seen drunkards fight a few times.

The Czech Republic is one of the most alcohol-consuming countries in the world. There is a very famous Budweiser brewery in Budejovice. Tourists who come here can also visit it. Unfortunately, athletes generally do not drink alcohol, especially teenagers. Athletes in the game period, they didn’t even touch carbonated drinks.

On June 22, Min Yaoyang finished his homework and lay on the balcony staring at the street: “I want to go out and play.”

Xiong Wu looked at the time: “It’s half past six, it’s not suitable to go out when it gets dark, I’ll take you for a morning jog tomorrow morning.”

Min Yaoyang: “But I want to take a photo of the sunset for my mother to see. It’s best if I’m in the photo too, so they can use the photo as a phone lock screen.”

Xiong Wu comforted him patiently: “Tomorrow, and both of your mothers use photos of their lovers as lock screens, so it’s not for you.”

Min Yaoyang: “I think…”

At this moment, Li Ling pushed open the door and shouted loudly: “Someone is fighting again, do you want to see it?”

Xiong Wu and Min Yaoyang jumped up and shouted at the same time: “Go!”

A group of big boys who feared that the world would not be chaotic ran downstairs, and saw two middle-aged men with a height of more than 1.9 meters and a strong figure blushing, arguing there in a language they did not understand, and pushing each other from time to time.

They didn’t know which good guy was at the scene, and he was using his mobile phone to play the soundtrack “It’s Raining Men”, which is most suitable for playing during fights.

Everyone ran to Qin Chunxiao who had been watching for a while: “How is it?”

Qin Chunxiao frowned: “They’ve been pushing each other for 5 minutes, and they haven’t made any other moves.”

Li Ling: “Just push? No fists or legs?”

Qin Chunxiao: “Not on, but I can hear one of them speaking English with a bit of tongue, it should be from Russia, and his face is exactly the same as Popov, the main Russian men’s volleyball player in the 1990s, but he is old a lot of.”

Xiong Wu: “That’s him, right?”

Qin Chunxiao looked solemn: “The other person spoke Portuguese, and he seemed to be the coach of the Brazilian National Youth Team Elliott. By the way, he was also a player in the 1990s. The content of their quarrel mainly focused on Alicia, the former setter of the US women’s volleyball team and now the owner of the national gym chain.”

Li Ling was at a loss: “Who is Alicia?”

Mao Xunfeng came out of nowhere: “Alicia is the number one beauty in volleyball in the last century! She also played a supporting actress in the Hollywood movie “Priceless Money”, and she was madly in love with Popov when she was in the active player, Eliot is Alicia’s suitor, and the three of them are the most famous love triangle in volleyball! You don’t even know this?”

Qin Chunxiao added: “When Eliot was chasing Alicia, Lao Niu served as his wingman, and Alicia later gave up on Popov and turned to chase Lao Niu. Lao Niu was married at that time, and also sternly rejected her.”

Li Ling and Min Yaoyang leaned back in shock: “Is there something about Lao Niu?”

Qin Chunxiao: “Lao Niu was also a talent when he was young.”

He also used his mobile phone to search for photos of Lao Niu when he was in the active period, to prove that this guy was able to catch up with his teammate’s school beauty sister, and he didn’t just fight for his teammates.

Probably no matter which family’s bear children, they would be very excited when they meet the gossip elders.

On the other side, the respective players of Popov and Elliott also appeared on the field. With their appearance, the quarrel between the two coaches finally escalated into a fight. Shoulders, trying to trip the other side, and the players also pointed at the other side in dissatisfaction, and babbled in a language that the other side could not understand.

Fortunately, the players were more sensible than the coach, and they just talked about each other. In a short time, the scene became the coach beating the coach, the players scolding the players, and the players on both sides sent two people to pull the coach.

A freckled teenager with brown curly hair exclaimed: “My phone!” Then he also rushed into the crowd, squatting all over the floor looking for his phone.

And things escalated.

At this moment, Newton walked in cheerfully with a small notebook in his arms, his expression was like that of an old farmer with a good harvest. He often ran out these days, and he didn’t know why.

Qin Chunxiao, Xiong Wu and Mao Xunfeng became vigilant at the same time: “It’s broken!”

Li Ling and Min Yaoyang: “Why is it broken?”

Popov and Elliott looked at Lao Niu at the same time. As we all know, Asians age slower than white people. In addition, Lao Niu had recently been under a controlled diet, and he was diligent in exercising. He was in good shape and condition. Like a handsome old man next door.

Popov, who already had a big belly, and Elliot, who had shown his bald head, had mixed emotions in their hearts for a while. The man’s jealousy and the alcohol made them yell at the same time, and rushed towards Lao Niu. .

“Newton—”

The players behind them: “Coach, ah, ah, wake up!”

Lao Niu was puzzled: “Moo?”

Xiong Wu reacted the fastest and immediately rushed to protect the coach.

Min Yaoyang looked at the entangled crowd, wanted to help but was powerless, so he could only shout eagerly: “You, stop fighting!”

Qin Chunxiao looked at it blankly for a while, and felt that his family didn’t need to worry, so he pulled up the freckled boy who was picking up the phone: “Are you okay?”

The freckled boy showed a sunny smile: “I’m fine, hello, I’m Dario, the Italian men’s volleyball team, are you a libero too?”

Qin Chunxiao shook hands with him: “I’m not a libero, at least not for now. My name is Qin Chunxiao.”

Dario: “Wow, but you don’t look 1.8 meters tall, can you still play other positions?” He gestured at the height of the two of them.

Qin Chunxiao ignored him, walked into the crowd, helped Xiong Wu push Elliot away who was holding Lao Niu by the waist and was about to push him to the ground, then dodged to Popov’s attack, hooked his foot, and knocked the man away. He fell down on the sofa next to him.

Qin Zhanshen’s action made the scene quiet, and he clapped his hands: “Okay, it’s all right, let’s go, give your coach some anti-alcoholic medicine, and you’ll be fine after a night of sleep. If you need Bupleurum, or you can come and ask our team doctor.”

Wasn’t it just drunken fighting, there were a group of fights around, not even a group fight, this kind of situation was not painful to him, it was not as good as the gangsters Li Ling provoked when he was playing streetball.

The big man headed by the Russian youth team stood up and smiled at him: “Thank you, I’m Anton.”

Qin Chunxiao: “Qin Chunxiao, you can also call me Misha.”

He pointed to his eyes, Anton let out a soft cry, and looked at him with kind eyes.

When Qin Chunxiao turned to leave, he was also puzzled. He didn’t expect to go out for a stroll and meet the man of the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Men’s Volleyball Team.

In 2021, the International Volleyball Federation announced the Best 12 Men’s Volleyball Players of the year. Among them, Dario, the libero from Italy, ranked fourth and was named the Best Libero. Anton, the setter from Russia, ranked fifth and was the captain of the Tokyo Olympics silver medal-winning team.

Newton, who was escorted back to the room by the players, felt very safe. He patted Qin Chunxiao on the shoulder: “The coach still has beef jerky here. Take some back as snacks.”

Qin Chunxiao shook his head and sat in front of Lao Niu: “Didn’t you let us go out at night? You only came back in the evening, what did you do?”

When asked about this, Lao Niu became proud: “What else can I do, I’ve gone to get information for you, go, call other people over, and hold a battle meeting!”

Lao Niu himself was proficient in English, Italian, and Japanese, while Jiang Xiaohai, the team’s assistant coach, understands English, French, and Russian. They had been running around all over these days to inquire about the training situation of teams from other countries.

Qin Chunxiao didn’t want to imagine the virtue of these two people squatting in the corner with their buttocks pouted and silently watching other people’s training.

12 big and small guys would be all together soon.

Newton took out the tactical board: “Our opponent in the first game was Japan. They are characterized by good defense, fine technique, and generally very patient. The first priority in fighting them is not to be impatient.”

He called by name: “For example, Min Yaoyang, Aizmaiti, Fu Biyang, Luo He, you four take it easy.”

“Their small ball is very good, you can also learn from this.”

The so-called small ball concept of volleyball, roughly speaking, is the response and defense against chaotic balls.

For example, the ball falls on the net, the ball flies out of the court, the ball is out of bounds by the thug… When the volleyball is not smashed by force, but is about to land in an unexpected situation, can the players react quickly and catch it decisively? and reorganize the attack?

All the teams with excellent defense in the world will not ignore the small ball, but in the youth, a group of rough boys who play with talent may not have such fine skills.

Especially the Chinese men’s volleyball team, from Newton’s point of view, only Qin Chunxiao, Du Xiaofeng, and Xiong Wu could play small balls well, and You Ziyu was the only one in the main offense who was also good at small balls, and the others were… rough male.

Newton said earnestly: “Although the average height and physical fitness of the Japanese team are not as good as ours, you can’t underestimate them. It is true that we can gain the upper hand in the world youth championships where we are fighting for talent, but they will improve their skills. We will not. We will wait until we are adults. In the arena, we will suffer a loss.

And as far as I know, their generation has also found a lot of fortress-style attackers, which can be regarded as making up for some of the shortcomings on the offensive end. Everyone still needs to pay attention to this game. “

The players looked at each other, and Qiao Mingming solemnly said on behalf of everyone: “Coach, don’t worry, we are all serious about playing with Japan.”

Newton was relieved. “Okay, if you can think like this, I’m relieved. But I praised the Japanese team just now. At this stage, we have a significant physical advantage. Don’t be careless tomorrow. Attack when necessary and block when needed. There are many short players on the opposing team, so let’s focus on our defense! Let’s go, the coach will report their height, weight, and playing style of those young players, and then we can make a targeted plan.”

Japan has a well-established system for youth player competitions, and one of the most famous ones is the Spring High tournament. These competitions are highly popular, even attracting a considerable number of volleyball fans from overseas. Many key players in their national youth team are also selected from these types of competitions.

There were 16 teams participating in the World Youth Championship. Lao Niu watched all the youth team matches of the other 15 countries he could find, including Japan’s Spring High.

Qiao Mingming, Aizmaiti, Du Xiaofeng and others who participated in the last World Youth Championship even lamented that Lao Niu was much more reliable than the previous coach.

The coach of the national youth team they met before was keen to gather the players together to do ideological work before the game, playing bureaucratic, talking about general tactics, and then it was gone.

There was no way to find a group of national players to practice with before the game, and there was no way to go out to spy on intelligence. It was also not possible to analyze the opponent’s weaknesses in such a detailed way and tell them how to fight better.

What the coach yelled the most on the court was “xx hold it up” and “you push it higher”.

This is not nonsense. Who can resist it? Who is willing to settle for less when they can achieve more?

After much anticipation, June 23 finally came.

Qin Chunxiao’s first international competition for his country, the first World Youth Championship, was coming soon.





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