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"The latest news, in the Men's Volleyball World Cup match between Japan and Australia that ended today, Yuu Morikawa replaced Nitta Asahiro in the third game after failing in the first two rounds and successfully blocked the Australian men's volleyball team The main player, Chris, helped the Japanese team win this game."

"In this World Cup, it has become a common practice to send players Morikawa at critical moments. The next Japanese team's opponent is the Brazilian team. The Brazilian team said in an interview before that Morikawa is the most threatening player in the Japanese team..."

Perhaps aware of the threats from the Argentine team and other overseas teams, Yuu Morikawa finally extended an olive branch to him in his second year at the San Juan club.

When there are international competitions, he can play games with Gong Yoo, and the two of them will naturally spend more time together.

Because there are many acquaintances in the national team, Yu Morikawa is very comfortable.

——In the beginning, he didn't have many chances to play. The structure of the national team had been formed before he joined, and the coaches also used players that were at their disposal.

But slowly, Morikawa Yu also began to have a chance to play.

Then, after he played, the tense situation will improve immediately, and the opponent who was difficult to overcome will be overcome soon. Not only the players on the field can clearly realize this, but also the audience on the field. I can tell.

Yuu Morikawa's chances to play gradually changed from one game, half court to full court, and he did not live up to the expectations of the fans, and his performance on the court has always been very good.

But perhaps because of more cooperation with Gong Yoo, the fans gradually discovered that as long as Gong Yoo is on the court, Morikawa Yu's performance is often better.

"Sure enough, as long as you are on the field, no coach will be willing to use you." Katana patted Morikawa Yuu on the shoulder, "Beautifully blocked."

Morikawa Yu stretched out his hand and gave the other party a light high-five: "You too."

In this match, he and Katana played as the team's main secondary attackers. Although they haven't played together for nearly ten years, the tacit understanding between the two on the field has never changed. Even though their physiques are far inferior to their opponents' Relying on the dazzling tacit cooperation to firmly block the opponent's attacker, although there is a reason why the opponent's international ranking is not high, but Jiao Ming did play the best performance since he joined the national team.

Yuu Morikawa's performance is also remarkable.

The longer he stayed in the national team, the more questions the media raised—why did the national team not invite him to join before that?If he was invited, perhaps in the previous games, the Japanese team would not have had so many defeats.

All in all, because Yuu Morikawa performed well enough in each game, and he decisively refused the invitation of the Argentine national team, he gained a high degree of support among the fans. Even though he played in Argentina all the year round, his popularity remained when he returned home No reduction.

The same goes for Gong Yoo.

At the beginning of this year, Gong Yoo received an invitation from a Brazilian club to become a member of the Brazilian league and performed very well in the league.

Although they both belong to the South American volleyball league, the distance between the two is not close. If there is no international competition, the pattern of two people getting together less and more apart may last for a long time.

But both of them are very comfortable in this state.

Because they have always understood each other very well, rather than sticking together every day, they want to see each other shine on the court and fight for their dreams.

Watching the Brazilian league matches has also become a new habit of Morikawa Yu.

——Getting rid of domestic expectations for them, abandoning the name of genius that accompanied me in high school, and restarting my pursuit of volleyball in a completely unfamiliar country, this feeling is indescribably great.

"Senior Gong Yoo looks more handsome like this."

At the end of the game, Yuu Morikawa will make a video call with Yu Gong. In addition to telling about his daily life overseas, the two will also talk about their achievements in the game, including serving skills, blocking methods, etc. Sometimes Oikawa and Hyuga He will also join in, after all Oikawa and Gong Yoo are both setters, and Hinata has also been a secondary attacker for a long time.

In the words of the character's name, volleyball lunatics shouldn't fall in love, they should fall in love with volleyball.

In this regard, Yuu Morikawa said: "If I hadn't met Senior Gong Yoo, I should have spent my whole life with volleyball. It's a pity that volleyball made me meet Senior Gong Yoo. This is volleyball's pity for me."

Katana had a disgusted expression on her face.

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Morikawa played in the Argentine League for 5 years, and went to the American Men's Volleyball League until he was 32 years old. In the second half of his career, he returned to Japan and played in the V League until he retired.

Among the volleyball players, Morikawa Yu belongs to the group with a relatively long career.

However, because of the accident in the third year of high school, at the end of his career, he began to suffer from injuries and his competitive state declined-but at that stage, he began to interpret the concept of playing football with his brain to the extreme, and his overall performance was fairly stable. .

Gong Yoo and Morikawa Yu retired in the same year. Unlike Morikawa Yu, he stayed in the Brazilian league for most of his career and returned to Japan in the last few years.

Looking at the entire Japanese volleyball arena, both he and Gong Yoo can be regarded as legends.

He has won all the MVPs that can be won in his career, and he has also performed well in the national team—although compared to Yu Morikawa, Gong Yoo has always faced Kageyama as a competitor, but as long as he is on the court, Gong Yoo will show the best state.

This is what Morikawa Yuu likes most about each other.

No matter what the situation is, Gong Yoo will face volleyball with the most sincerity. In the end, few media will use the term "substitute" to call Gong Yoo.

He is as powerful a setter as Kageyama, which is recognized by all fans.

So looking back on his entire career, Morikawa Yu can use the word smooth to describe it.

He has done the volleyball career to the extreme that he can do, and all the so-called regrets in his previous life have been wiped out in this life. If he hadn't really reached the age where he couldn't play, Morikawa felt that he could still stay on the volleyball court for a long time.

After retiring, Yu Morikawa received invitations from the national team and the V-League team to be a coach, but Yuu Morikawa refused.

But he did find himself a job as a coach, the coach of the Inarizaki High School Volleyball Club.Back then, Coach Kurosu just retired, and Inarizaki tried to send an invitation to Yu Morikawa, and Yu Morikawa agreed without hesitation.

As for Gong Yoo——

He really wanted to grab Morikawa Yu's first job after retiring, but he was kicked out by Morikawa Yu very hard, so he became a coach in a volleyball club in Kobe, which is the coach of a social club below V2. Now The goal is to enter the V2 league.

When Inarizaki High School went to the □□ Eagle Flag Cup in the second year, Morikawa Yuu mercilessly laughed at Gong Yu once.

Because his team still has the Black Eagle Flag Cup to play, Gong Yoo's team doesn't even have this chance.

Naturally, they all lived in Kobe, and it took less than half an hour to drive to Kita-senpai's house.

"My ideal retirement life is like this." Morikawa Yuu opened the window, the sun was shining brightly outside the window, and it only took half an hour to run from home to Inarizaki. Yu gets up earlier than Yu Morikawa every day.

Many people don't understand what Morikawa Yu and Gong You did. As the best players in the entire volleyball world and those who have been selected into the Volleyball Hall of Fame, they could have gained more contacts, money and power by relying on their achievements in active service.

Kuroo once suggested Morikawa Yu to join the volleyball association.

But Morikawa Yu didn't choose that.

In fact, before retiring, he also seriously thought about his future path. Compared with ordinary people, the retirement age of professional volleyball players is still too young. He has just completed a small half of his life, and there is still most of the journey waiting for him to continue.

Some players choose to go back to college and switch from practical school to theoretical school on the road of sports.

After thinking about it carefully, Morikawa decided to go back to the place where his dream started.

Although he has only been in Inarigasaki for more than three years, in Morikawa Yu's view, it has changed his life here, changing his attitude towards volleyball from timidity to love, and letting him know why he plays volleyball. In BJ, in San Juan, in the United States, and at the end of his career, he misses this place the most.

"Actually, I thought about it, you might sell sushi with Aji."

Gong Yoo had a "?" expression on his face: "Aji himself rarely makes sushi."

"Because Gong Yu senior is not the kind of person who is willing to be mediocre." Morikawa Yu smiled at Gong Yu, "There is also a V1 team contacting you, I heard they called you."

"Yeah." Gong Yoo nodded, "I do have a bit of a high profile, but...Compared with other places, I also feel more at ease here."

"And...the social team is also very challenging." Gong You explained, "Heiwei and the others want to lower the net. My dream now is to let more players who are not talented enough in volleyball experience it. The joy of volleyball."

"Compared to them, we are all lucky."

So, from some day, Morikawa Yuu and Gong You suddenly developed a tacit understanding.

In the days when Morikawa Yu couldn't go to the volleyball club due to external affairs, the extra-staff coach Gong Yoo would automatically take up the post, and the social volleyball club where Gong Yoo worked would also appear from time to time, Morikawa Yu, the former world's top side attacker figure.

"I thought Coach Gong was very strict. Why does Coach Morikawa feel stricter?"

"By the way, I passed by the lounge a few days ago and heard them talking, discussing players' training and so on..."

"What did you say?"

"Coach Morikawa raised his opinion, but Coach Gong Yoo didn't dare to refute it. I never thought that those two people would get along like that in private."

In his professional career, Yu Morikawa gave people the impression that he was very focused on the field, but he was more easy-going in private. Although Gong Yoo has a large number of fans, he often gave people a feeling that he was unattainable.

That's why the contestant didn't even think about the way Gong You smiled at Yu Morikawa with a flattering face that day.

It simply overturned all his views on Gong Yoo.

"But both of them are very strong." A player said with emotion, "We are really lucky to have them as coaches."

Compared with the salaries of the V1 league and the national team, whether it is the Kobe local social team or the Inarizaki volleyball team, the salaries that can be provided are very limited. —The fundamental purpose is to increase the popularity of the team, and to be associated with the most famous volleyball player in Kobe. It is best to be promoted by the TV station again, and the team can even get sponsorship from well-known companies.

But what they didn't expect was that Gong Yoo actually agreed.

So they have a top setter as a coach, with a hall-level secondary attacker to supervise their training.

Among other things... when participating in the competition, they are definitely the most watched team in the audience.

Although sometimes the results are really not very good.

However, thanks to the efforts of Gong Yoo and Morikawa Yu, the team's performance has indeed become better and better. First, it was successfully upgraded to V2. After two or three years, it has the strength to compete with the V1 team.

In terms of training and teaching the players, Gong Yoo and Morikawa Yu had no reservations, and taught the players bit by bit the experience they had learned on the volleyball court.

It's as if, the more they teach, the longer their careers can be.