◇ 文 |本刊記者 胡 婷 圖 | 譚又銘

1月26日，上午九點(diǎn)，在重慶YBDL青少年籃球發(fā)展聯(lián)盟的室內(nèi)籃球場里，一群孩子正在進(jìn)行著籃球?qū)I(yè)培訓(xùn)練。授課的教練叫Mladen，來自塞爾維亞。

“Lowering the center of gravity and lowering your knees.” Mladen手里托著球，說話間示范著，整個(gè)身體壓低了一些，做出隨時(shí)運(yùn)球的準(zhǔn)備。

“身體重心放低，同時(shí)膝蓋低下來?！敝探o孩子們翻譯后，孩子們照著教練的姿勢(shì)，右手運(yùn)球、左手防守小跑著將球運(yùn)出去。

Mladen，今年38歲，曾是塞爾維亞國家隊(duì)隊(duì)員。他10歲開始打球，13歲時(shí)就開始了職業(yè)籃球生涯，至今已經(jīng)超過20個(gè)年頭。

16歲時(shí)，Mladen就被評(píng)測為歐洲最有價(jià)值青年球員，2002年，他被獨(dú)行俠隊(duì)選中進(jìn)入NBA。離開NBA后，他輾轉(zhuǎn)美國和歐洲多地繼續(xù)自己的籃球生涯，并投入到籃球青訓(xùn)中。去年八月，他來到重慶，成為一名籃球教練。

On January 26, at 9:00 am, a group of children were taking a training session on basketball on the indoor basketball court of Chongqing Youth Basketball Development League (YBDL). The coach was Mladen, who is from Serbia.

“Lowering the center of gravity and lowering your knees.” Mladen, with his gravity lowered,was holding the basketball in his hands and giving a demonstration to the children, prepared to dribble the basketball.

“Lowering the center of gravity and lowering your knees.” After the assistant translated to the children, they followed the coach's postures –lefthanded dribbling and left-handed defending, trotting and dribbling the basketball.

Mladen, with regular features and black hair,is 38 years old. He was a member of Serbian National Basketball Team. He began to play basketball at the age of 10 and started his professional career at the age of 13. So far, he has accumulated a wealth of experience for more than 20 years.

At the age of 16, Mladen was recognized as the most valuable youth player in Europe. In 2002, he was selected by Dallas Mavericks to enter NBA. After leaving NBA, he continued to pursue his basketball career in the United States and Europe, and plunged in the basketball training for youngsters. In August last year, he came to Chongqing and become a basketball coach

大手牽小手 籃球場上最萌身高差

Big Hands Join Small Hands: the Cutest Height Difference on the Basketball Court

不了解籃球的人，可能對(duì)Mladen了解并不多，但這并不影響他在大街上的“回頭率”。身高達(dá)到了2.03米的Mladen走在重慶街頭，經(jīng)常聽到路人對(duì)著他驚嘆“哇，好高！”，有的甚至還拿出手機(jī)直接對(duì)著他拍照。他說，剛來重慶時(shí)，對(duì)人們都關(guān)注他身高覺得奇怪，但后來，他也就慢慢習(xí)慣了。

Mladen教重慶小孩打籃球

上課的孩子年紀(jì)都不大，最大的也只有六歲，最小的才四歲。在他們中間，Mladen顯得格外明顯，妥妥的最萌身高差。

作為國際籃聯(lián)注冊(cè)籃球教練，Mladen雖然一直致力于籃球青訓(xùn)的工作，但他坦言，在重慶，卻是他第一次教年齡如此小的孩子。由于孩子普遍年紀(jì)較小，如何教他們打球，Mladen也是下了一番功夫。

“比如四歲的小孩子，他們對(duì)事物的認(rèn)知都還不完全，籃球?qū)λ麄儾]有什么概念，因此在練習(xí)運(yùn)球的時(shí)候，我會(huì)先讓這些孩子空手直接在球場上跑一段路，然后再讓他們繼續(xù)沿著之前的路抱著球跑，最后，我會(huì)讓這些小朋友運(yùn)球跑?！盡laden笑著解釋，“因?yàn)檫@樣做，通過他們自己的肢體感知，孩子們對(duì)籃球的認(rèn)識(shí)也更加深刻了。”

雖然隊(duì)伍里的孩子普遍年紀(jì)較小，但Mladen認(rèn)為只要以更專業(yè)的角度去要求孩子們訓(xùn)練，他們會(huì)獲得更多的成長。

在Mladen看來，籃球和體育的訓(xùn)練，不只是學(xué)會(huì)一種技巧，增強(qiáng)體魄?！盎@球不只是籃球，籃球就是人生。在籃球中，勝利了你會(huì)高興，輸了球會(huì)哭泣，但你要堅(jiān)持，去追求勝利。人生也是這樣，這是我準(zhǔn)備教給孩子們的?！?/p>

“半年多的學(xué)習(xí)，看到有的孩子從未接觸過籃球，到現(xiàn)在運(yùn)球、投籃都做得非常好，心里真是很有成就感?！盡laden豎起大拇指，邊贊嘆邊笑著說道。

People who don’t show much interest in basketball may not know much about Mladen, but it doesn't affect his "popularity" in the street. Mladen,2.03 meters tall, said that when he is walking in the streets of Chongqing, often, there are passersby watching him and giving an admiration "wow,so high!", and some people took out their mobile phones and photographed him. He commented that when he came to Chongqing for the first time, he was surprised that so many people were attracted by his height, but later he got accustomed to this.

右：由于不吃辣椒，Mladen（左）與哥哥Drazen喜歡上了吃鄉(xiāng)村基

左：在Mladen家附近，有非常便利的大型商場

The children learning on the basketball court are so young: the eldest is six years old, and the youngest is four years old. Among them, Mladen is a “giant”, thereby showcasing the cutest height difference.

Mladen, as a FIBA-registered basketball coach who has been devoting in the basketball training for youngsters, admits that in Chongqing he isn’t highly experienced in teaching children of four to six years old. How to teach these young children to play basketball? Mladen has renewed his efforts.

“For example, those four-year-old children,without a complete insight into the world, don’t know much about basketball. Therefore, in terms of dribbling, first, I often encourage them to run on the court, with their empty hands. Then, they, with the basketball in their hands, run along the court.Finally, they learn how to dribble the basketball while running.” Mladen smiled and explained, “The children, with a high standard of physical perception,will have a better understanding about basketball. ”

Mladen is convinced that although the children in the team are generally young, they will gain more growth as long as they receive professional training.

For Mladen, basketball and other forms of sport are not merely about creating favorable conditions for children to develop skills and get strong physique.“Basketball has its import: it is a mirror of life.We will be exulted about winning the game; we will burst into tears for losing the game. The most important thing is making unremitting efforts to pursue victory. Life is like this. This is what I teach to the children. ”

帶著妻子孩子 來重慶開啟新的生活

Mladen: Embark on a New Life in Chongqing with His Wife and Children

去年夏天，是Mladen第一次來到重慶，也是第一次來到中國。之前，他在網(wǎng)上查找了很多關(guān)于重慶的資料，這樣讓他對(duì)重慶的一些習(xí)俗有所了解。比如，他知道重慶是一座吃“辣”的城市，雖然他已經(jīng)退役，但一直還保持著職業(yè)運(yùn)動(dòng)員的飲食習(xí)慣，不吃辛辣的食物，因此來重慶后，他去餐館吃飯時(shí)，點(diǎn)菜時(shí)都會(huì)特別說明不要辣椒，有時(shí)就連炒魚香肉絲的豆瓣醬都是要讓老板去掉。

當(dāng)記者請(qǐng)他用一個(gè)詞語來形容重慶的時(shí)候，Mladen脫口而出，嘴里蹦出了一個(gè)詞 “mega”，并且說了三次，來形容重慶在他心中的巨大。

“在重慶，無論你走到哪里，都能看到很多很高的建筑，我知道在重慶主城有九個(gè)區(qū)，并且每個(gè)區(qū)都有自己繁華的商業(yè)中心，就像一個(gè)大城市里的一個(gè)個(gè)小城市。這是一個(gè)宏大、精彩的城市結(jié)構(gòu)?！盡laden止不住地贊嘆。

Mladen接著說，“居住在這里，非常方便，我只要步行就可以買到任何想買的東西，比如食品、咖啡、茶等等。這在我的家鄉(xiāng)，是不能輕易辦到的，比如我去買一個(gè)簡單的生活用品，有時(shí)候，就需要開車20公里，才能買到?！?/p>

其實(shí)在來重慶前，Mladen就知道這里是一個(gè)有三千多萬人的大城市，“我的國家總共只有750萬人。我生活的城鎮(zhèn)，只有五千人，可能就只有這里社區(qū)的一棟建筑里居住的人數(shù)?！?/p>

來重慶后，Mladen有了更直觀的體驗(yàn)，去年九月，他第一次坐輕軌，從龍洲灣一直到南坪，參加首屆重慶體博會(huì)。說起第一次的輕軌體驗(yàn)，他用了“amazing”來形容當(dāng)時(shí)的場景：“整個(gè)輕軌車上都擠滿了人，路過有的站點(diǎn)時(shí)，人們不是走上來的，而是直接被推上來的。這讓我看到了一座勤奮且有活力的城市。不只是我，每個(gè)人在這里都在努力工作著，我也想成為這個(gè)城市中的一份子，想讓家人、孩子，看到這座城市的發(fā)展和活力?！?/p>

于是，今年1月，在他的說服下，他的哥哥Drazen Sekularac，曾經(jīng)的黑山共和國國家女子隊(duì)青年隊(duì)主教練，也登上了前往重慶的航班，來這里成為一名籃球教練。

2019年春節(jié)前的一天，Mla den乘上了回到塞爾維亞的航班，他的第三個(gè)孩子即將出生，他準(zhǔn)備在今年的五月份，等孩子滿了兩個(gè)月后，可以坐飛機(jī)了，他將辦理好家人的簽證，把他們一起帶到這里來，將家安在重慶，開啟一段新的旅程。

Last summer, Mladen came to Chongqing for the first time; also, he was a newcomer in China. Prior to his arrival, he collected a lot of information on Chongqing on the Internet, in order to know something about the Chongqing-based folk culture and customs.For instance, he knew that Chongqing is a city of"spicy". Although he has retired, he maintains the diet of professional athletes and does not eat spicy food.Thus, in Chongqing, he preferred the food without any pepper, and sometimes in the restaurant he asked the chef to remove the thick broad-bean sauce in Yuxiang shredded pork (sauteed in spicy garlic sauce).

When the reporter asked Mladen to use a word to describe Chongqing, he said without any hesitation:“mega”. He said “mega” for three times to express Chongqing’s hugeness.

“In Chongqing, wherever you go, you will see a lot of tall buildings. I know that there are nine districts in the downtown of Chongqing, and each district has its own boisterous commercial hub, just like a lot of satellite cities in a large city. Chongqing boasts its urban structure, which is grand and wonderful.”Mladen spoke highly of Chongqing.

Mladen added, “It’s very convenient to live here.I can purchase all kinds of daily necessitates, such as food, coffee, tea, and so on. By contrast, it is no easy thing in my hometown. Sometimes, I need to drive 20 kilometers to do the purchase. ”

In fact, Mladen, prior to coming to Chongqing,knew that it is a large city with more than 30 million people. “My country has a population of merely 7.5 million. I live in a town with only 5,000 people. Maybe,my hometown equals to one community in Chongqing. ”

After coming to Chongqing, Mladen got his firsthand experience. In September last year, he made his first journey on the light rail from Longzhou Bay to Nanping, where he participated in the First Chongqing Sports Expo. He used "amazing" to describe his first light-rail journey. “The train is crowded with people.At some stations, people, instead of getting on in line, are pushed up. For me, Chongqing is a vibrant city full of diligent citizens. Everyone, including me,is working hard. I want to well integrate in Chongqing.I hope that I, together with my life and children, will experience the growth and vitality of this city. ”

In January this year, Mladen persuaded his brother Drazen.Sekularac, who was the head coach of Montenegro National Women's Team – Youth Team,to come to Chongqing, where he became a basketball coach.

One day before the Spring Festival in 2019,Mladen took a flight back to Serbia, where he was eager to welcome his third child. In May this year,when his two-month child will be healthy enough to take a flight, he will go through the visa formalities for his families, and they will embark on a new journey in Chongqing.