Chapter 229: Just Facing (I)
At Ashgabat International Airport, the capital of Turkmenistan, the Yangtze River women's volleyball team met unexpectedly with the opponent of the AFC Champions League, Li Jiapo Shengshi women's volleyball team.
Different from the huge momentum of the opponent's appearance, the arrival of the Yangtze River women's volleyball team seems to be very low-key, although the Yangtze River women's volleyball team is also an out-and-out old strong team, but the decline in the performance of the past two years has made the Yangtze River women's volleyball team begin to become a weak team in people's mouths.
As for the opponents of the Yangtze River women's volleyball team, they are now the world's top women's volleyball professional teams recognized by the World Volleyball Federation, and any of their players is the core of a certain national team.
As soon as they walked out of the airport, there was a big difference in the treatment of the two teams, although the Turkmenistan organizers did not treat the Yangtze River women's volleyball team in any way, but the reporters who came to the airport to interview were basically going to the Shengshi women's volleyball team, and the Yangtze River women's volleyball team only had a few sporadic domestic reporters who asked a few questions casually.
Although the Yangtze River women's volleyball team has set off a youth storm in the Republic League this season, without the blessing of the championship and specific glory, they are now at most well-known and famous in the Republic, and in Asia and even the world, the Yangtze River women's volleyball team is really nothing.
The girls of the Yangtze River women's volleyball team who were waiting to take their luggage looked sideways at the Shengshi women's volleyball players who were surrounded by reporters from all walks of life not far from them, and there was a light of envy in their eyes.
"Don't even look at it, we won the game when we look back, and those reporters will definitely surround us when we leave."
Wang Lei didn't say anything about the player's behavior, but the old coach Zhan Xiongfei felt that his player's current appearance was a little unsightly, and he felt like a dick, so Zhan Xiongfei couldn't help but say to the player.
"Coach Wang, is it already a task to lead the team to the quarterfinals of the AFC Champions League this time? Do you have anything to say about the next match with the Shengshi women's volleyball team? ”
Several domestic reporters who were still interviewing Wang Lei were obviously not optimistic about the Yangtze River women's volleyball team, and the questions they asked also made Wang Lei angry.
"Actually, there is no task that is not a task, our goal is actually very simple, that is, to play every game well, to satisfy the fans who like and support us, as for this game, we are the same, we have already reached the quarterfinals, why not look forward to a higher goal?"
Wang Lei also responded positively to the reporter's question, he is not afraid of these people writing nonsense, anyway, there will always be someone to explain his words from another angle, so it is better to be more direct, so that he is more comfortable.
"You mean you're going to try to win? But the opponent is the Shengshi women's volleyball team, maybe you don't know the status of the Shengshi women's volleyball team in the volleyball world, do you need me to explain it to you? ”
At this time, it was rare for a reporter from Southeast Asia to come over, but he asked his own question quite rudely after hearing Wang Lei's answer, from his words, everyone could hear the strong contempt, it was obvious that the Southeast Asian reporter knew that Wang Lei was a "layman".
"It's not bothering you to explain, the prosperous women's volleyball team, I definitely know this, they were the champions of the AFC Champions League last season? Or is it the runner-up? Oh, I think about it, it seems that they were eliminated by the Chaozhou women's volleyball team in the semifinals, looking at your appearance, you should be a reporter from Southeast Asia, maybe you are not familiar with the league of our republic, so do you want me to tell you about our record with the Chaozhou women's volleyball team this season? ”
In the Yangtze River women's volleyball team, everyone knows that Wang Lei is a very easy-going person, but in addition, the girls of the Yangtze River women's volleyball team also know that their young head coach is very tough on the outside, and they actually know how harmonious the team can have an internal atmosphere, the main reason is that Wang Lei has always been at the forefront, focusing all the doubts and doubts of the outside world on himself, avoiding a lot of interference from the outside world for the players.
Wang Lei's tough response has won the love of many domestic reporters, for them naturally hope to get big news from the Yangtze River women's volleyball team, and in any case, the Yangtze River women's volleyball team is their own children, and I can criticize my own children, but others run to say irresponsible remarks that are a slap in the face.
Seeing that there were already cameras or voice recorders turned to him, Southeast Asian reporters who didn't want to be a laughing stock could only turn away in a huff.
Many players of the Yangtze River women's volleyball team have noticed everything that happened just now, they originally had the desire to win, and now this desire is even stronger.
After all, there are extremely rich oil and gas resources here, and Central Asia is backed by the republic, and it is not worried about the sales of oil and gas after exploitation, so a small country like Turkmenistan with a population of no more than 10 million can be said to be very nourishing, and more importantly, Turkmenistan also produces a very well-known horse in the world - Akhal-Teke horse, which is considered by many people in the republic to be "sweat and blood horse", Thanks to the production of these thoroughbreds, Turkmenistan also reaps a lot of harvest every year.
As one of the national symbols of Turkmenistan, the "sweat and blood BMW" is comparable to the status of the panda in the Republic.
After three days of simple rest and acclimatization, the high-profile match officially began.
Wang Lei's speech at the airport was reported by domestic media and resonated with many domestic fans, who abandoned their prejudices and turned to support the Yangtze River women's volleyball team, and Wang Lei's words were released by some media in Southeast Asia, but Wang Lei did not look down on the Shengshi women's volleyball team, and even some media claimed that Wang Lei was a nationalist and discriminated against people of other races, which can be seen from the fact that the Yangtze River women's volleyball team has almost no foreign aid.
As soon as these media reports in Southeast Asia were released, they immediately caused an uproar, and there were no similar voices in the Republic, but some Southeast Asian teams and foreign players began to criticize Wang Lei and the Yangtze River women's volleyball team.
In recent years, despite the rise of the Southeast Asian Women's Volleyball League, the first position in Asia in the Republic Women's Volleyball League has begun to waver, and the Southeast Asian Major League has always wanted more AFC Champions League qualifications in its own league, after all, they are leagues composed of several countries, and over the years, the Republic Women's Volleyball Team has been firmly controlling the amount of AFC Champions League qualification allocation, which has triggered the hostility of the two major leagues to a certain extent.
Therefore, now such an AFC Champions League match, which has attracted a lot of attention, has become a kind of display of the confrontation between the two major leagues, which naturally attracts more attention.
So when the players of the Yangtze River women's volleyball team walked into the competition hall, the flashing lights from various media almost made some young players mix garlic under their feet, to be honest, even Wang Lei himself has never enjoyed such treatment, let alone these young players who basically have no experience in international competitions.
"Relax a little, don't pay attention to those media, this is just an ordinary game, it doesn't make much sense, if you lose, we are still the Yangtze River women's volleyball team, if we win, we are still us, we will not become Bai Fumei or Gao Shuai Fufu, so the most important thing is to be normal."
The excessive attention of the media and the outside world made Wang Lei a little irritable, the last thing he wanted to appear has now appeared, compared with his opponents, the players of the Yangtze River women's volleyball team obviously lack enough experience in the face of important games, and under such huge pressure, how much strength can be played depends on whether the players can calm down.
"After the game starts, I only have one request, that is, let go of the fight, and the tactical execution belongs to the tactical execution, but today we have to play with momentum, be tough, and have a tough duel with the opponent, understand? I don't care if I lose, I can't be fired for losing a game like this, but I just want to see you play with momentum and play with the demeanor of our young people. ”
Wang Lei is carrying out the final pre-game guidance, his original tactical thinking is a little inapplicable in the face of the current situation, almost no one in the team has seen such a big scene now, if there is, it can only be counted Ma Dongmei, and other players Wang Lei does not dare to guarantee that they can not be timid in the game.
So in response to this situation, Wang Lei can only change the style of play, his idea is to let the players and the other party just face, after all, they are all young people, although young people mean that the mentality is unstable, but if the young players play the momentum and state, then no amount of experience is useless, this is the experience that Wang Lei has summed up since he became a coach.
When he was coaching the frontier youth team, Wang Lei found that when he was coaching the frontier youth team, young people did have more or less nervous emotions, and if this emotion can be transformed into the momentum of the team, then the young players can also play 100% or even 12% of their strength in training, and the most important thing now is how to transform this emotion.
Most of the players in the Yangtze River women's volleyball team are post-90s, some young ones were even born close to 2,000 years, they are born with a self-centered emotion, so what Wang Lei has to do now is to let his players release this emotion as much as possible, as for the final result, Wang Lei feels that she can bear it, and she feels that no matter how much this game wins or loses, it will be a huge growth for her players.
Ma Dongmei stepped forward as the captain to guess with Yue Min, the captain of the Shengshi women's volleyball team, Yue Min was the former captain of the national team, and now although she has withdrawn from the national team, her strength is still there, but she has now entered the nationality of Li Jiapo, which is not an Asian foreign aid.