Tuba is leaving, as a team reporter who has "fought" with him for six years and is his old friend, at the time of the Taishan team's outstanding coach's parting, I remembered a farewell song by Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei: "The mountains are sending each other away, and the sun dries up to cover the firewood". The spring grass will be green next year, the king's grandchildren return or not?
With this departure, there was a good chance that Tuba might not return, and I had to say goodbye to him no matter what.
The final farewell was a bit bleak
On November 4, 2009, before nine o'clock, I rushed from home to the Crowne Plaza Hotel where Tuba was staying. The lobby of the hotel was a bit cold and there were not many fans.
I came to the room 1407 where Tuba was, the salon driver Mr. Zhang who has been driving for Tuba for several years was carrying the luggage from Tuba's room to the downstairs, three big suitcases filled to the brim, all the things in the room were loaded into the suitcases. It looked like Tuba had made plans not to come back.
Wearing a light green t-shirt, Tuba hugged me tightly when he saw me. At this moment, I think of the first time I interviewed Touba, which is still fresh in my mind.
Tuba asked me if I remembered the moment we both knew each other. Of course I don't forget, I said. "We met at the Beijing airport on January 7, 2004, and you were the first media friend I knew when I arrived in my country. Time flies, it's been six years, I am going back to my country today." Tuba said.
It seems like yesterday that I went to Beijing to welcome you six years ago.
On January 7, 2004, a cold winter day, I heard that
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The newly appointed head coach of Taishan Salon, Mr. Touba, was coming to our country. At that time, because the salon blocked the news to the outside world, I went through a lot of trouble and made many inquiries to confirm the time and flight for him to come to our country, so I got on the train to Beijing with my colleague Cui Jian, and then took a taxi to the airport, and waited for Touba for more than three hours at the Beijing airport.
I was touched that the first time Tuba met me he showed the demeanor expected of a professional coach, embraced me warmly and happily gave me an exclusive interview in the cafe.
On the plane back to Jinan, he talked to me all the way again, regardless of his travel fatigue.
Time flies. Tuba lamented that the moments passed too quickly. Compared with six years ago, his face has added a lot of wrinkles, added some green silk. When he first came to our country Tuba was 51 years old, now is almost 60 years old white man.
It's hard to describe the clutter.
In the lobby on the first floor, various reporters are now ready to interview Tuba. Salon's three bosses, Kang Mengjun, Han Gongzheng and Cui Faqiang, also came to the hotel to say goodbye to Touba. However, there were only a few fans who came to say goodbye.
At this point I recalled the scene on the night of January 7, 2004, when Touba appeared at the Jinan airport: many fans were ready with flowers and rushed to the airport from the city to welcome Touba; the salon as a whole came out, and the team captain at that time, Li Xiaopeng, and the vice-captain, Song Lihui, went to meet him in person on behalf of the whole team.
This time, only Gao Yao and Jiao Zhe of the Taishan team members rushed to the hotel to say goodbye to Tuba, and because of the traffic jam on the road, they were not able to see their mentor after all.
The final answer was merely perfunctory
Touba to go, of course, all kinds of reporters would like to complete perhaps the last interview with him, because Touba's interpreter Yao Jie has now returned to Beijing in advance, we had to ask Touba's agent Wen Jiaqing temporary guest interpreter, in the cafe briefly on the group interview with Touba. Touba seems to have something to hide, talking about sensitive issues, Wen Jiaqing all perfunctory anon.
At 9:20, Tuba got on the bus and departed, and I took the car of Han Gongzheng, the executive vice president of the salon, to the airport.
In the airport VIP lounge, many media reporters hope that the final moments of Tuba can turn the box, but Tuba still only said some polite words. As for the arrangement during his vacation, he said, "I'm going to rest and rest." Because there were other activities in the VIP lounge, I and the other colleagues who came to see Tuba off hurriedly left and hugged him goodbye.
Will Tuba be back? I have a prediction: Touba is unlikely to be able to continue as a
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The skipper is up. It was blatantly obvious that the following year, Croatian star Ivanovic took over the reins of the T&T team.
In April 2013, Touba became a fire-fighting coach, was hired by Wuhan Zhuoer as head coach, in July led the team had to Jinan competition, that is the last time I saw Touba.
A large number of fans rushed to the airport to welcome Touba and present him with flowers. Before the start of the competition, the salon held a unique ceremony, in which the executive vice general manager of the salon, Han Gongzheng, presented a souvenir to thank Touba for the
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Outstanding contribution made by Tarzan's team.
In that game, Wuhan lost 1:4 because of the distance in strength.
Touba in Wuhan failed to help the team to change the downward trend, not talent, but the team has a lot of problems, the transformation of the team needs to be a certain moment.
When Tuba broke away again, I couldn't see him off.
