Chapter 161: National Competition
After three consecutive days of intensive training, Xiangbei finally ended with a 2-1 narrow defeat over Chang Cheng.
In the afternoon of the same day, the Xiangbei players embarked on their way home under the eyes of everyone in the landlord Changcheng High School.
The Changcheng players, who swallowed the defeat at home, were undoubtedly depressed, and they spent the entire noon to clean up their moods, and only appeared in front of Fuji and his party in the afternoon.
He has a good understanding of their pain, and he also cried uncomfortably when he lost to Hainan a month ago. It's just that this training camp is a must-win, not to mention that Fuji hates failure, and he doesn't allow it to be based on this year's results alone.
Although the timeline is different, the results of this Xiangbei county competition are the same as those of Xiangbei in the original book. Fuji also often compares the current Xiangbei with the Xiangbei in the original book, and he is full of desire to win, but he doesn't want to lose to the team in a year.
Therefore, a year later, Xiangbei had a draw with Chang Cheng without Sakuragi, then this well-rounded Xiangbei must win, no matter how ugly and tragic the win is, as long as it wins this result, it will be considered to be a psychological goal.
Of course, there are still problems, Chang Cheng has them, and Xiangbei also has them;
Miko Chai reflected on it, and Fuji also noticed.
The training process with Changcheng has been filmed by Mari Kawai of the Ministry of Information with equipment, and Fuji specially asked her to ask for a backup video so that the basketball department can study it. There's no way.,Ayako said that it's the most appropriate thing to ask someone else.,Other people think so.,And that's exactly the case.。
Returning to the nest, the group first went to visit coach Mitsuyoshi Anzai, who has been conditioning his body while collecting video materials of the participating teams in the national competition these days.
A group of more than a dozen people arrived directly at Coach Anthy's home that night.
Coach Anzai's residence is a Japanese-style house with a lot of land. In the evening, the lights of the interior are sprinkled in the small pond in the courtyard, and the sparkling brilliant colors appear on the water surface, and from time to time there is the sound of adding water to the bamboo tube after filling it with water and slapping the stones, which contrasts with the intermittent chirping of cicadas in the ears.
Mrs. Anzai led the Fuji and others from outside the house, all the way to the Japanese-style room where Coach Anzai was resting.
Coach Anzai was wearing a traditional kimono, kneeling on a futon, and as soon as he dropped the dishes and chopsticks and placed them on the plate in front of him, he saw Fuji, Akagi and other students from northern Hunan rushing in under the leadership of his wife, and the empty and indoor space suddenly became small.
"Oh roar! You're back! Have you had dinner? Coach Anzay smiled and cared, and the corners of the students' mouths were full of smiles, making him unconsciously infected by smiles.
Some of them nodded, others shook their heads in denial, and when they noticed that each other's answers were different, they looked at each other again, and then they replied like demons. Some of these students shook their heads bluntly when they considered that things were simple and simple, while those who nodded were more attentive and felt that the coach would definitely ask their wife to help them prepare if they didn't eat dinner, and they didn't want to trouble the coach and his wife.
This temporary reaction was not prepared in advance, but directly reflected the simple or warm hearts of this group of young people, which also made their on-the-spot reaction seem so interesting.
Anzai and his wife looked at each other and smiled, and after laughing for a while, the master squatted down and cleaned up Coach Anzai's dinner plate, and said that he would help them prepare some meals.
In the end, the captain Yukimura said that he couldn't trouble his wife, and Akagi and others also spoke to him, so he avoided the past. After all, there is not one person here, but more than a dozen people with a dozen mouths, and helping them prepare meals is not only troublesome but also costly.
"Alright! Let's talk to your teachers! The lady compromised in her voice of persuasion and withdrew from the room with her plate.
Listening to the sound of the door closing, there is a less restrained feeling in the room.
Mitsui couldn't wait to tell the coach: "Coach, we won!" It's 2-1! ”
"Ahh Mitsui, you despicable fellow, let's talk about it together! ”
"What a despicable act, Mitsui!"
A group of people returned to their original noisy side, and only after discussing it did they neatly repeat the results.
In fact, the results of the training camp, at noon, Coach Anxi learned through telephone communication, Chang Cheng's coach not only praised the Xiangbei players on the phone, but also congratulated Coach Anxi on the achievements of coaching.
Looking at this group of children with true temperament, Coach Anxi neither broke or faked a smile, but was mobilized by the children's emotions, raised a real and natural smile, and congratulated: "You have done a great job!" ”
The emotion called youth was stirring in the heart of this gray-haired old man.
The expected visit was extended in a joyful atmosphere, and it was not until the room was a little cooler that the young players began to feel the speed of time passing and said goodbye to the coach together.
Approaching the separation, some people made an appointment to eat, and some people went home first, Akagi, Ki Twilight, and Fuji all went home, Miyagi escorted Ayako home, and as for Mitsui, I don't know if I went home or went to find Ade. This is the end of the collective life of the training camp.
When Fuji got home, he had a sumptuous dinner left by his mother, and the game and everything were temporarily forgotten, and he was ready to eat. After Akagi arrived home, while eating, he and his sister Haruko told the story of the three days of the training camp, and more or less mentioned two sentences, which made Haruko even more happy to learn of the victory......
In the afternoon of the next day, the players of the Xiangbei basketball club gathered again in the gymnasium of the school, and there were about ten days left before the national competition at the end of July. From this day on, Xiangbei seized the time to watch the video arranged by the coach, summarized the practice match with Changcheng and made some new attempts.
Eight days later, in the early morning when Fuji almost overslept, the two teams from Xiangbei and Hainan stepped on the train to the location of the national competition.
On the same day, teams from all over Japan participating in the national tournament were moving towards the same destination. Even on the Fuji train, there were several teams that were heading to the national tournament together, and there were many strong teams that had been predicted before the competition.
Fuji wanted to guard the carriage in the hope that he would not meet Fengyu's group, but it backfired. Tummed into his headphones, his eyes began to wander into the names of the teams on the national tournament schedule, searching for the teams in his memory.
Mountain King, Aihe, Mingpeng and Darong, this is probably the strongest team in the national competition except Hainan in the second impression. Of course, no matter if there is no famous friend of Mori Shigekuan, the other teams can keep their ace players! In addition, Fuji is not impressed, but the Hakata Business University High School, which has the right to have a bye in the first round on the schedule, is also a team that needs to be wary.