From Today it is the King of the Basketball

On August 20, the first match day of the World Championships, the Chinese team will play Japan on this day!

And this is the first game of this World Championship!

What's it like flying red flags all over the city?

People in Saitama Prefecture now feel it!

Unlike domestic laws, ordinary people in Japan can fly the national flags of other countries. Of course, it may be illegal because of other things. The Japanese will have some problems with the Chinese flag. For example, the company at work will take action, etc ...

But Chinese tourists are concentrated in Saitama prefecture, and it is time to turn Saitama prefecture into China Town!

Starting from August 10th, because of this World Championship, Chinese tourists who bought tickets for World Championships, round-trip air tickets, and booked hotels can get a simpler temporary visa. The aging period is from August 10 to 9. On September 9th, Japan's economy was sluggish, so the Football World Cup and the World Basketball Championships were also held just to promote tourism.

Then things that exceeded Japan's expectations came. Uzbekistan pressed hundreds of thousands of Chinese tourists to come to Japan. Usually there are so many tourists, and they are naturally happy and crazy.

In 2005, the total number of Chinese tourist trips to Japan reached 6.73 million, and more than 1 million Chinese have visited Japan one or more times.

This time, the World Championships in Japan, the people who have been here for a month, and even those who have come here for a few days, are almost approaching the total number of Chinese tourists last year!

But this time, they were not happy!

Some Chinese tourists have bought tickets for the Chinese team ’s five games, because each country plays at least five games, and all five venues will go there, so the ticket sales for the country started very early. The reason for increasing attendance is that the four hot countries are separated in four groups. This is also one reason to maximize ticket sales as much as possible.

A small number of fans bought tickets for all games of the Chinese team group stage. Most of them bought tickets for the cities in Japan where they wanted to go to a place closer to the world championship venues. They came to Japan It ’s not just watching the Chinese team ’s games. Tourism is also an important purpose. It ’s just during the summer vacation. Not all fans come to Japan. The fans only occupy a small part. The largest Saitama Super Arena has only 50,000 seats, which is usually used. Most people who came to play rugby and baseball just came to join in the fun and did not buy tickets.

Then ... the five host cities have all become Chinatowns. Each city has more than 100,000 Chinese. In Saitama Prefecture, because of the opening of the World Championships, the Chinese team and the Japanese team are playing ... Tourists from other cities, Most of them gathered here ... and then ... the hotel and the bed and breakfast couldn't live anymore ...

Tourists who have bought a ball ticket and obtained a temporary visa, and the Chinese tourists who already hold Japanese visas are going to occupy the posture of Japan, which puts a lot of pressure on transportation and accommodation in Saitama. The Japanese government can only increase Dispatch people to dredge ...

The gap between the strength of the Chinese team and the Japanese team is too great. All Chinese fans want to see the Chinese team abuse the little Japan. Even if it is not a fan, they want to feel this matter up close.

From the afternoon of August 18th, Liu Mang often heard the sound of singing the national anthem collectively. Some fans ran outside the hotel where they lived to sing the national anthem. Liu Mang and others were very moved, and then let the national team staff To unblock and say that if you do n’t listen, you have to toss ... you can only call the police ...

It's not that Liu Mang and others are unfriendly, and I didn't expect that the enthusiasm of the fans of their own country will actually affect the rest of these participating players.

Liu Mang feels that domestic fans still don't quite understand what is called "home advantage". Saitama Prefecture has been "occupied". Go to the hotel where the Japanese team lives!

But ... After waking up, Liu Mang and his teammates were very excited.

This feeling is great!

With the expectations of the people of the whole country, their fighting spirit soared!

Unlike the unreasonably high expectations previously accepted, the national team members feel more pressure. This time, the expectations of the Chinese people will make their fighting spirit more exuberant!

After all, it's because of strength!

On the afternoon of August 19th, the Chinese team participated in the opening ceremony of the World Championships and watched the performance. The Chinese players' minds are not at all on this. After the introduction of the players from various countries at the ceremony, the Chinese team is discussing how Deal with Japan.

Do you want to play with it, or do you want to play with it?

Finally unanimously decided to work hard!

And you can't carelessly, know yourself and know each other, and you can't fight! The Chinese team got the list of players from all the participating countries in this session, and Liu Mang and others took a list of the Japanese team.

Read their information ...

Liu Mang feels ... It ’s not that he does n’t want to take it seriously ...

Japanese team center Gu Tianwu, 45 years old, is one meter nine and nine and weighs 91 kilograms.

Liu Mang is one meter ninety-three meters tall, and his latest body weight is 92 kilograms ...

The best player of the Japanese team is Tian Woyong, who played the preseason game for the Suns in 2004, a 1.75m point guard ...

Followed by the famous Takeuchi brothers on the front line in Asia, Takeuchi Ryuji and Takeuchi Kosuke, two meters and five meters tall.

In addition to Tian Woyong and the Takeuchi brothers because of the good performance of the Asian Cup last year, Liu Mang heard Yi Jianlian said that everyone else did not know Call aside.

"Coach, BIG Yao, let's discuss one thing." Liu Mang said in English, afraid that Silver Fox would not understand.

"What's the matter? Ace, do you not want to play tomorrow? It doesn't matter, you and Dayao can rest." Silver Fox is so direct ...

"No, we all have to fight, you have to fight, you don't understand our country, but the coach, I think so ..." Liu Mang asked Yao Ming and Yinhu to put their heads closer together and said what he wanted to do.

Yao Ming and Yin Fox's eyes were wide, and they looked at the list of the Japanese team together.

Yao Ming ’s response was fun!

"Ace, I support you!" Yao Ming expressed his opinion decisively.

And Silver Fox was a little scared, how much hatred is this for the Japanese team?

If Liu Mang knew Silver Fox's thoughts, he would say: This hatred is endless, this is a national hatred!

But Yao Ming also agreed, and Silver Fox quickly found the leader, Zhang Zhang, the former head coach of the Chinese men's basketball team, asked what to do about this matter.

Guidance Zhang's eyes were all bright: "Just follow what Ace said!"

"..." Silver Fox didn't expect that Liu Mang's escaped character was well understood by the Americans, but Yao Ming and Zhang Guizheng were both stable people. How come they hit the Japanese team and suddenly became unstable?

On August 20, 2006, the World Championship opener is coming!

The current World Championships will be held for 12 days, from the 20th to the 24th. There will be five games a day, divided into three time periods, held in five cities, and some games will be played at the same time.

But on the 20th at 3 pm, only the Chinese team played against the Japanese team.

On the day of the game, when the list of the Chinese team was announced, everyone who was concerned about the game was frightened.

Liu Mang, the position behind it reads ... Center!