The coach of the top volleyball team Mikhail Kovalev (Pavel Derevyanko) never had a respectful attitude towards others: Kovalev did not stand on ceremony with the male team entrusted to him, and considered rudeness supported by flat jokes the key to popularity among women. However, he also did not particularly like them - he was a woman hater and was not going to change his behavior.
However, everything changed against his will, when the newly elected president of the All-Russian Volleyball Federation Veronika Zhdanova did not evaluate the unsportsmanlike behavior of the hero and removed him from work. It turned out that only women can help the hero restore his reputation and return to the Premier League.
For support, the hero turns to his mother. Valentina Pavlovna Kovaleva - now the head of the Faculty of Physical Culture and Sports at the Pedagogical Institute of the small town of Novochepetsk - once trained the evil Zhdanova, which means she can persuade her to change her mind. Mother agrees to help her son, but with the condition: he must take patronage over the institute volleyball team.
The hero takes up the task without much enthusiasm, but his last desire to work disappears when he realizes that his new wards are girls.
Athletes (whom Kovalev considers to be dylds from a height of their height) do not know how to play, and they are interested in personal problems much more than training. Alice (Julia Makarova) tries on the role of a social activist; Rita (Isabelle Eidlen) is obsessed with her own appearance; Taisiya (Evgenia Tremasova) suffers from complexes; Dasha (Maria Tukhar) knows too much about the criminal world; Lyolya (Daria Pitsik) is easily suggestible and takes over any hobbies of her friends; pessimist Tanya (Nadezhda Karpova), on the contrary, does not want to do anything, because "it will not end with anything good." Well, Kristina (Angelina Poplavskaya) is notable for the fact that she is probably the illegitimate daughter of Kovalev.
In addition to the girls, the hero of the stick will be inserted into the wheels by another woman - the vice-rector of the institute, Irina Shevchenko (Daria Ursulyak). The vice-rector is interested in the volleyball team not showing any success: if the sports section is dissolved, Shevchenko will receive equipment for a new computer class.
- © Shot from the TV series "Yuldy"
The appearance of the hero Pavel Derevyanko, according to the actor, is inspired by the appearance of the Russian musician Sergei Shnurov. But Derevyanko and Kovalev himself have little in common, especially if we talk about character.
“I’m the opposite of Misha, since I didn’t like volleyball since childhood and was delicate and respectful not only to the opposite sex, but, in principle, to any other person. So we got a really interesting image woven from opposites, ”says Derevyanko.
Daria Ursulyak also admits that the image of the heroine is not close to her. “It's nice, but it’s unusual to play a bitch with a vile character that everyone does not like. I’m even technically uncomfortable in this way: a pencil skirt and heels are my uniform, but in general I never go in my life like that, ”the actress told Komsomolskaya Pravda.
The on-screen volleyball team was preparing for the shoot together with Elena Zarubina - the silver medalist of the Olympics, the owner of prestigious sports awards. Real athletes also took part in the shootings - they acted as understudies in technically difficult episodes.