There is a belief called football

Chapter 54 Driving after the team bus
"Joe, I think there must be some misunderstanding. I don't think there is any harm in asking Dad to find out."

"No, at least not this time",
"why"?
"Because you said that Ukrainians only respect the strong, not those who go through the back door."

Diana chuckled, "Nonsense, when did I say such a thing?"

Li Qiao also laughed, "Anyway, I don't want Lobarov to help this time."

What Li Qiao said was very firm, and Diana couldn't help it.

*****
On the afternoon of February 2th, at the training base, the 12 people on the roster got on the bus with Blokhin and Marsh and drove to Kharkov.

It takes more than 10 hours to travel from Kiev to Kharkov. It will be the morning of February 2th, and the afternoon will be the match between Kyiv Dynamo and "Kharkov".

The rest stayed at the base for training, including Li Qiao.

Li Qiao trained alone on the training ground with the automatic ball machine. This ball machine was used to practice corner kicks, and now it is used by Li Qiao to practice volleys.

The ball machine launched footballs from all angles, and Li Qiao volleyed the ball again and again, but none of the kicks were fallen leaves, and none of the balls were kicked into the goal.

Almost every kick is an anti-aircraft gun. Yes, Li Qiao is not practicing, but venting. Although he promised Brahimi, Corbin, and Diana well, but when things came to an end, he still couldn't really calm down.

He held back for too long, a month of winter training, and jumped into the icy pool water again and again, wasn't it just to meet the requirements for his technical level and catch up with the February competition in time?

Now my physical condition has fully met the requirements, but I was inexplicably defeated.

His teammates played, but he stayed at the base, because there was no coach to supervise, and most of them were not on the training ground. Li Qiao felt lonely, unprecedentedly lonely. Maybe only volleying vigorously again and again could make him feel better.

The ball-serving machine stopped because the balls had been fired. Li Qiao looked at the footballs scattered all over the field, ran over to pick them up one by one, and put them back into the ball-serving machine.

This kind of ball machine can hold 15 balls at a time. Li Qiao loaded them one by one. When he loaded the fifth ball, he suddenly got stuck, and that ball couldn't get in or out.

Li Qiao wanted to press it in hard, but no matter how hard he tried, it was useless. Li Qiao patted the machine and tried to restart it again, but it still didn't work.

Suddenly Li Qiao tried to kick the ball machine, and the ball machine wobbled under Li Qiao's vigorous kick. Li Qiao felt a sense of pleasure, and kicked again heavily.

Yes, Li Qiao was angry. Faced with this ball machine, Li Qiao was completely angry. He smashed the ball machine fiercely, determined to destroy it.

Suddenly Li Qiao heard the roar of an engine in the distance, and at this moment he suddenly felt that he was too absurd.

Li Qiao looked up, and a more unexpected scene happened. It was Lobarov's car, the Volvo he was all too familiar with.

"Joe, get in the car",
"Why are you here, Diana?"
Li Qiao saw Diana sitting in the co-pilot.

"Mr. Lobarov," Li Qiao called out in embarrassment.

"Joe, you shouldn't have lied to me",
Li Qiao didn't say anything.

"Get in the car, Joe," Diana urged.

"Get in the car, where are you going?"
"Follow them, you must participate in tomorrow afternoon's game."

Li Qiao went in without knowing it, not to mention that the car had been driving for an hour, and he just caught up. Can Bloshin listen to you?
"But...".

"No but," said Diana.

Li Qiao is very grateful that Diana still did not "keep his promise", but this time he really made up his mind.

Seeing that Li Qiao was hesitant, Lobarov said: "Son, even if we can't go to the competition, let's be the head office of the audience. As a senior executive of Dynamo Kiev, I have a ticket for the VIP seat." After speaking, Lobarov took out the ticket.

Now, what else can Li Qiao say?
"Okay, Diana, Mr. Lobarov".

The handsome smile on Li Qiao's face returned. He knew that even if he couldn't play, he could be with Brahimi and Corbin, and cheering them on was better than smashing the ball machine in the base to vent his anger.

*****
When the car drove out of downtown Kiev, Lobarov suddenly slammed on the brakes.

"Dad, what are you doing"?
"Hey, that," Lobarov said shyly, "Where do we go to Kharkov?"
"To the east, Dad, haven't you ever been to school? You taught geography."
"Hehe", of course Lobarov can't say that he spent half of his time at school sleeping.

"Ukraine was not yet independent at that time, and they were all teaching the geography of the Soviet Union",
Diana knew that Lobarov was irrational, "Okay, let's go."

"Hehe, then there is another question."
"what"?
"Where is the East?"
Diana almost died of anger, "Doesn't your car have GPS navigation?"
Lobarov looked at a never-used LCD screen in front and said, "Yes, but I usually drive in Kiev, so I haven't used it."

Diana turned on the LCD screen, typed "Kharkov", and a gentle female popped up immediately to say hello,
"Wow, she must be a beauty," Lobarov said.

"Please, she's a robot".

Li Qiao in the back seat thought to himself, "It's just the father and daughter, still catching up with the bus? I guess it would be good to arrive the day after tomorrow, and it would be good not to drive the wrong way to Russia and get caught by the police."

"The current technology is too good, baby, do you know that when I was young, I only had "Ural" (a kind of three-wheeled motorcycle)".

"Hurry up, I can't spare you if I can't catch up with the game."

"It's so fierce, why is it like your mother?" Lobarov thought to himself.

Lobarov continued to drive, and said while driving: "I have bought this car for 5 years, and today I know for the first time that there is such a beautiful woman living in my car."

After finishing speaking, he laughed.

Diana's eyes had rolled 180 degrees. She didn't like her father's lewdness the most. At this time, Diana looked at Li Qiao in the rearview mirror, and Li Qiao saw Diana looking at him, and they smiled at each other.

"Don't worry, Joe, we will catch up."

"Joe, it's your fault this time, you didn't tell me earlier, but don't worry, if you catch up with Blokhin, I will definitely beat him up, but I haven't beaten anyone in 10 years."

"Father," Diana said accusingly.

"Mr. Lobarov, if that's the case, I'll ask to get off the car right now," Li Qiao's tone was unquestionable.

In order to ease the embarrassment, Lobarov laughed and said to the LCD screen: "For your sake, I spare that bastard Blokhin."

As a result, the LCD screen replied to him, "Please keep going straight."

Li Qiao, Diana burst out laughing, which made Lobarov very embarrassed.

*****
"dad",
"Oh baby, where are we now"?
Diana saw that Lobarov's eyelids could no longer hold up, and then looked at her watch, it was 11 o'clock in the evening.

"Dad, I must find a place to rest, it's too dangerous for you to do this."

"Ah, oh", Lobarov was too sleepy. If Diana hadn't woken him up, he would probably have fallen asleep and drove to Kharkov.

The car finally stopped in a large gas station. As soon as the car stopped, Lobarov was already sound asleep. Diana knew that he was too tired, so she gently covered him with a blanket. Li Qiao was also very moved when she watched from the side, touched that the two father and daughter treated her so well, how lucky she was.

Li Qiao saw a small convenience store in the gas station, "Diana, do you want food, I'll go buy food."

"Give me a bottle of black tea",
"it is good",
Li Qiao came out of the base. Although he was wearing a down jacket, his lower body was still in training shorts. At this time, he suddenly got out of the car and was freezing to death.

Li Qiao took his favorite food and the black tea that Diana ordered. Li Qiao knew the brand Diana liked, so he carefully selected that brand of black tea.

Li Qiao went to the counter and prepared to pay the bill. The cashier was a girl. Seeing that Li Qiao was dressed in a nondescript manner, she didn't have a good attitude. After all, homeless people often came in to warm up.

"Hello, the total is 100 hryvnia".

"Oh",
Li Qiao touched his pockets, only to realize that he had no pockets, and he was wearing ball pants.

At this time, Li Qiao was extremely embarrassed. He knew that the cashier already thought he was weird. If he said that he didn't bring any money and put the things back, he would be extremely embarrassed.

"Give",
The cashier takes the money.

Diana took the things and put them in a bag, looked at Li Qiao, and said, "Let's go, what are you looking at, is the cashier pretty?"
Li Qiao was embarrassed and immediately followed Diana.

"How do you know I didn't bring any money?" Li Qiao thought, if Diana didn't show up in time, he would have to put the things back under the cold eyes of the cashier, which would be too uncomfortable.

"Not only do I not know that you don't have money, but I also know that you don't wear pants",
Li Qiao chuckled.

It turned out that when Diana saw Li Qiao shivering in the cold wind, she realized that she left in a hurry in the afternoon. Li Qiao definitely didn't bring any money, so she made a timely rescue.

"Why are you like a little roundworm in my stomach".

"What bug"?
Li Qiao forgot that Diana was a fake China expert, and said: "A kind of creature in China is very smart and knows people's thoughts."

Diana blushed, "Don't be sentimental, I don't know what's on your mind."

"Haha, you don't know about roundworms, but you do know about being passionate," Li Qiao thought to himself.

At this moment Lobarov woke up suddenly and asked, "Where are you?"
Li Qiao secretly smiled, and Diana said, "It's at Natasha's place." (That's the football gossip reporter).

"Hehe, hehe", Lobarov laughed twice and fell asleep again.

"I know you have nothing good to do",
Li Qiao said at this time: "Diana, you should sleep for a while."

"Well, Joe, then turn off the lights and you can sleep for a while."

All the lights in the car were turned off, and the orange light from the gas station outside was very warm.

Li Qiao looked at Diana's side face, feeling very happy.

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