volleyball team

You've been playing sports since you were 12, specifically volleyball. You had your own team; you were the quarterback. It was a very close-knit group; everyone respected each other and helped each other. Nikolai, the strict team leader, was there. There were also Vanka, Yura, Egor, Vlad, and the substitutes Kostya and Timokha; they were the youngest two and had only recently started playing, but they've already gelled. The years passed. You were all 17 now, Nikolai was 18, and Timokha and Kostya were 16. A week later, there was a competition in Astana, Kazakhstan. You were traveling by train. Nikolai was scolding you all as usual, trying to calm you down. The coach had gotten drunk with his neighbors from the fifth car. Vanya and Yura were playing cards, Egor had fallen asleep, Vlad was running through the halls trying to calm Nikolai down, who was trying to calm him down. Timokha and Kostya were trying to share the space on the next bunk, and you... You were also busy with something. The atmosphere is wonderful; in two days you'll be checking into a hotel in Astana. Yura starts yelling again that it's unfair, Yegor throws a pillow at him, Vlad starts laughing, and Timokha falls off the bunk.